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THE 



^i(i]als of I^ewberry 



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P^RT FIllST 

BY 

JOHN BELTON O'NEALL, LL. D. 



P^RT SECOXD 

-BY 

JOHN A. CHAPMAN, A. M. 



COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME 









Copyright, 1892, 

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INTRODUCTION. 

My areJecessor au J master iu this field of labor closed his work amid 
the mytterings of a gathering storm, which was soon to burst in fury over 
the ciuutry. It passed, leaving in its track many ruins of fortunes and 
manj wrecks of men. It was the purpose of this writer to record the 
uamfes of all who took an active part in that great struggle and bore the 
fury of that storm. After that to collect and arrange such other matter, 
biographical, religious, literary and auecdotical as might properly be in- 
cluded in the Annals of Newberry. 

It has/cdso been thought well to include in this volume the portraits of 

he rep./jsentative men of Xewberry of the times past in which they lived 

"d ' ~ \1., This has been done so far as ic was possible to obtain their 

>./ All that could be obtained the artist has reproduced here . 

K is now done, and 1 close my labors with the closing days of 

/rie midst of profound peace at home and abroad, with the pros- 

/)p/Tii- as man can tell, of a long continuance. 

a grant that the prospect of peace and prosperity may not be delusive. 
' JOHN A. CHAPMAN. 

December 19th, 1S02. 



INTRODrCTION. 

The work •which is now about aspiimiug the shape of a book, was bej,'nn 
iu ISoO, without any such purpose. The object is truly stated in the 
opening number. As the work progressed, material accumulated, their 
value was perceived, and an effort was made to so mould them as to give 
character to their publication. Public attention was fixed apou it, and a 
general desire has been expressed that it should assume some permanent 
form. That is now attempted, and it is hoped that it will constitute some 
contribution to the history of the State, and will preserve the names of 
many worthy men, which would otherwise be lost. 

The Appendix contains some account of the great flood of August, '52, 
the injury to the Greenville and Columbia Railroad, the memoir of Wil- 
liam Spencer Brown, the Engineer who was drowned in it. These seemed 
to me to be germaiu to the history of Newberry, and well worth preserv- 
ing. The sentence on Motley and Blackledge, and the notice of Gov. 
Johnson, and the letter of Mr. Pope, may be considered as matters which 
I was much interestedin preserving. 

JOHN BELTON O'NEAL L. 

May 31st, 1858. 



V 



TO 



THE PEOPLE 



OF NEWBEPvRY DISTRICT 



THE ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY, 
HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND ANECDOTICAL, 



ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, 



AS THE OFFERING OF A SON TO HIS MOTHER, 



JOHN BELTON O'NEALL. 



NEWBERRY ANNALS. 



NO. 1. 



One who is heartily tired of the incessant war of poliiicSy 
and who is sick at heart with the intestine divisions by which 
this best of all governments is threatened to be rent asunder 
and cast to the winds, proposes, as far as time, information, 
and opportunity may serve, to discharge the duty of preserv- 
ing much in relation to the district of his birth, which might 
otherwise perish. 

Whence the name Neicberrtj is derived it is im2:)ossible with 
certainty to say. I have heard some assert, it was called 
Newberry County, after a captain of that name, in Sumter's 
State troops, but whether there was such an officer, I hav& 
never been able to ascertain. Certaia it is, that a family of 
that name once lived beyond Pedee, in that section now- 
called Marlborough district. Lately it has been my privilege 
to make the acquaintance of a preacher of the name of 
James Newberry, and therefore it may be that the tradition 
is true. Others have supposed that it was called after some 
place in England or the United States; but it is to be 
remarked that the names of similar sound elsewhere are 
spelled Newbury, while our district name is uniformly spelled 
Newberry, and pronounced with the accent on the second 
syllable. Others have supposed it was a fancy name, from 
the beautiful appearance of the country — covered with the 
oak, hickory, walnut, pine, elm, and poplar forests, inter-: 
twined with grape and muscadine — the ground carpeted with 
the rich covering of pea-vine, and studded all over with fruit- 
bearing shrubbery. It is hence supposed that the first settlers, 
enchanted with the prospect, might have said it was pretty 
as a new berry — and hence it was called Newberry! I like 
this notion best. It better accords with Colonel Rutherford's 
enthusiastic expression: "South Carolina is the garden-spot 
of the world, and Newberry the garden-spot of that garden- 
spot." It began to be settled before 1752, when Duncan's 
settlement, on the creek now bearing his name, was made. 
It must have been pretty well settled by 1762, for in that 
year Kelly and Furnas opened their store, at Kelly's old 



10 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

store, Springfield. The description given by Samuel Kelly 
then, of the face of the country-, is still remembered. He 
said that '*it was in the spring the most beautiful scene his 
oyp: ever beheld. The open woods presented no obstruction 
to Lhe view. The hills and vales were covered with pea -vine 
a 'd maiden cane; the former in bloom made it look like a 
garden." 

Newberry lies in the parallel of 34° north latitude, and 
almost due west from Columbia. The town is 34° IG' 37" 
north, and 41' west. Its bearing from Columbia is north G8, 
west 36^ miles. It is bounded northeast by Broad Eiver; east 
by a line running from the ferry known before the Revolution 
as Shirer's, afterwards as Dawkins' and Huff's, now Hughey's, 
-south 17 west, to a point just above the mouth of Buffalo 
Creek, on Saluda River; thence south by Saluda River to the 
Island ford; thence west by the old road, called the Ninety- 
Six road, to Odell's ford, on Enoree; thence northwest by 
the road to Crenshaw's ford on Tiger; thence north, down 
the Tiger River to its junction with Broad River. Its western 
border on Laurens is about thirty-one miles; its eastern, on 
Lexington, is about sixteen. From Parkin's, now Croft's ford, 
on Saluda, to Hendrix's ford, now Tucker's bridge, on Enoree 
the north and south, or meridian line of the district, passing 
directly through the town, is about twenty-six miles. Its 
length, on a line east and west passing through the town, is 
about the same. I suppose what is said in Mill's Statistics, 
p. 641, is true, that the average extent of the district is equal 
to about twenty-four miles square, and that it contains about 
308,640 square acres, which would make the territorial wealth 
of the district, at an average of five dollars per acre, (which 
is much too low,) equal to nearly $2,000,000. This is soon 
to be doubled, and perhaps quadrupled, by the Greenville and 
Columbia and Laurens Railroads, and possibly the Spartanburg 
Railroad crossing from the mouth of Fair Forest direct to 
Newberry Court House, may add another million to the value. 
How much has Newberry contributed to these great works ':' 
Altogether not $130,000. 

This body of 368,640 square acres, "constituting the district 
of Newberry, presents the most unbroken body of cultivable 
land in any portion of the State. There are not 10,000 acres 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 11 

in the whole which have not been cultivated, or which may 
not, by proper agricultural industry, be brought into cultiva- 
tion. A great deal — I think nearly 100,000 acres — are still 
in forest; another hundred thousand may be regarded as 
waste from improvident culture. About 168,000 acres are in 
cultivation, and according to the census of 1840, supported 
18,350* persons, equal to about one soul for every nine acres 
of cultivated land. This population ought to be doubled by 
doubling the cultivated land, which could easily be done; and 
should be quadrupled, by improving the cultivation, and 
proper attention to manufactures. That same census tells us 
we then made 57,350 bushels of wheat, 1,129 of barley, 73,185 
of oats, 708 of rye, 635,634 of corn — making a total of our 
grain crop of 768,006 bushels, not quite forty bushels to 
every soul. This is entirely too small for our wants. I hope 
the census for 1850f will show that it is at least doubled. 
The cotton crop is put down at 3,105,107 pounds. If this be 
of picked cotton, as I presume was intended, it may constitute 
an approach to the present crop of Newberry, 30,000 bales; 
assume this to be true, and the annual income of the district 
is nearly a million of dollars. This is soon, I hope, to be 
doubled. 

The town of J^ewberry stands upon lands originally granted 
to John Jones. It had passed from the memory of every one 
that such a man ever lived there, when there appeared, about 
1819, among its inhabitants, a very old stranger, apparently 
between 70 and 80 — an idiot — who said his name was James 
Jones; that his father once lived thereabouts. It was apparent 
from his knowledge of localities, such as Kelly's old store 
(Springfield,) and the old inhabitants, that it was true as he 
stated. For instance, stepping into the old house at Spring- 
field, in the lifetime of its venerable occupant, Hannah Kelly, 

* The census of 1850 gives the aggregate of the population of New- 
berry district 20,143 — making about one person to every eight acres. 

t By the census of 1850, the product of wheat had increased to 
79,375 bushels, barley had fallen off to 1,081, oats had increpsed to 
99,798, corn to G64,058, rye had fallen off to 696 bushels— making our 
aggregate grain crop in 1850, 845,008 bushels. 

The cotton crop is, I see, set down at 19,894 bales, of 400 pounds each, 
making a total of 7,934,690 pounds. 



12 ANNALS OF NEWBEKBY. 

and sitting down for a moment, this poor wandering stranger 
said to her as he rose, he believeri he would step over to 
Billy Coate's, and walked towards the north door, which had 
been closed, and the steps removed, for more than a quarter 
of a century. The old lady said that that was once the 
familiar way of passing out of the house to the elder William 
Coate's who lived and must have died between 1762 and 
1790. This strange being, after lingering for a few days in 
the neighborhood, and talking of persons long dead, as of 
yesterday, disappeared, and was heard of no more. He 
probably returned to Georgia, from whence he said he came. 
Many were incredulous, but on looking to the mesne con- 
veyances it was found that John Jones, whom he claimed as 
his father, was once the proprietor of the town of Newberry. 
When the court house was located, it belonged to John Coate, 
(commonly called little John); his settlement was originally 
at the Cedar Spring, south of the grave yard. But when the 
court house was located, he lived in a house on the lot now 
owned and occupied by Dr. Thompson. The north end of 
Coate street is about ojoposite to the site of the old house. 
It was then called Coate's shop. The location was accidental, 
or perhaps I should say capricious. The strongest sections 
of the district were then the Enoree and Little River settle- 
ments. The Enoree settlement desired the court house to be 
fixed at Col. Rutherford's, (now Bauskett's or Wadlington's) ; 
the Little River wished it at Kelly's old store, (Springfield). 
Between the two, the county court Judges would not decide. 
They determined to run the transverse lines of the district, 
and where they intersected, there the court house shonld be 
builded. This was accordingly done ; the lines intersected in 
a millpond, (Duren's,) on the branch running by or through 
John Garmany's old place, near the road to Ashford's ferry. 
Carnes, (Peter,) the County Attorney of facetious memory, 
insisted that it would be a capital notion to build the court 
house, like a tub-mill, over the pond. The county court 
Judges, however, demurred to the argument, and after a 
regular "cur/a advisare vulV determined to build the court 
house at Coate's shop, and accordingly there it was builded ; 
and here was the beginning of the town of Newberry. "When 
that was, and other matters, in the following number. 



ANNALS OF NEAYBEEEY. 18 



NO. '2. 

In 1783 an ordinance was passed, appointing commissioners 
to divide the districts of Charleston, Georgetown, Cheraw, 
Camden, Ninety -Six, Orangeburg, and Beaufort, into counties 
"of a convenient size, not more than forty miles square." In 
Ninety-Six the commissioners were Andrew Pickens, Richard 
Anderson, Thos. Brandon, Levi Keysey, (Casey,) Philemon 
Waters, Arthur Simpkins, and Simon Berwick. Under this 
ordinance, I presume that Edgefield, Abbeville, and Newberry 
were laid out. For in the Act of 1785, ''For laying off the 
counties therein mentioned,'' &c., Abbeville, Edgefield, and New- 
berry are spoken of as existing counties. Laurens, Spartan- 
burg, and Union are not only laid off, but also named in the 
Act. It is to be observed that in this last Act, this district's 
name is spelled Newbury. The boundaries are the same as 
those given in No. 1, except that the ford on Enoree, called in 
it Avery's, is in the Act called Anderson's; that on Tiger, 
called in No. 1 Crenshaw's, is in the Act called HilFs; and the 
county is extended below the line, now existing eight miles on 
Broad River, and thence across to the mouth of Bear Creek on 
Saluda. In the Act of the same year (1785) "establishing 
county courts," &c., the true spelling of the district name "A'eu"- 
herry,^^ is resumed. It is worthy of observation, how the com- 
missioners to lay off the district of Ninety-Six into counties 
were scattered. General Pickens, Richard Anderson, and Judge 
Simpkins were south of Saluda River. General Pickens in the 
county afterwards called Abbeville; Richard Anderson near the 
line between it and Edgefield; and Judge Simpkins in the 
latter, and near the present court house; Col. Waters and Gen. 
Casey were between Broad and Saluda rivers, and in New- 
berry; Col. Brandon north of Emree, in the C3unty afterwards 
called Union; and Simon B u-wi ;!j: in Spartanburg. This is 
the gentleman who was murd 'r 'd by outlaws on his rv'turn 
from the seat of government, probably in 1783. 



14 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

The Act of 1785 (i-atified 22d of March) commonly called the 
County Court Act, and drawn, as is generally understood by 
Judge Pendleton, provides for a court to be held in every 
county, once in three months, by seven Justices of the Peace, 
to hold their commissions during good behavior, and to be 
elected, tii*st, by a joint nomination by the Senate and House 
of Representatives; vacancies among them, afterwards occurring, 
were to be filled by themselves; any three of the said Justices 
were a quorum to hold the said courts. The number of Justices 
was increased two by the Act of 10th of March, 178G, and by 
the Act of ITtli March, 1787, was further increased to eleven. 

The Justices of the Peace first appointed to hold the County 
Courts for Newberry, were, as appears from the records of 1785 
and 1786, Robert Rutherford, Robert Gillam, George Ruff, Levi 
Casey, John Lindsey, Philemon Waters and Levi Manning. 
The first County Court was held at the house of Col. Robert 
Rutherford, 5th of September, 1785. The Justices present 
were Robert Rutherford, Robert Gillam, Geo. RufP and Levi 
Casey. The Clerk and Sheriff were, by the County Court Act, 
to be appointed by a majority of the County Court Judges. 
From the entry made in the records, it appears that Thomas 
Gordon had been appointed by the Justices before their meet 
ing as a court. Sheriff of Newberry, and commissioned by the 
Governor, William Moultrie, for two years, the term of Sheriff's 
office according to the Constitution of 1777. At the first meet- 
ing, William Malone was appointed Clerk, and held his com- 
mission during good behavior. He continued Clerk, and 
dischai-ged the duties of his office by his deputies, Thomas 
Brooks Rutherford, Major Frederick Nance and William Sat- 
trewhite, to May term, 1704, when, on his resignation. Major 
Frederick Nance was appointed in his stead. ; 

It. appears that at the September court, 17^, held at the house 
of Colonel Robert Rutherford, (Justices present, Robert Giliam, 
Robert Rutherford, Philemon Waters, Levi Casey, John Lindsey, 
and William Caldwell,) the following entry in relation to the 
court house was made: "Pursuant to law the Justices proceed 
to situate the court house of this county at John Coate's, (little) 
or within one mile and a half of that place, as future circum- 
stances may direct, pointing out the most advantage that may 
be derived to the publick in situating the same."' It is to be 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 15 

observed that this is the first time that William Caldwell 
appeared oq the bench as one of the County Judges. 

This was the first step to the settlement of the controversy 
about the location of the court house. The court was, notwith- 
standing the order of September, '80, held March term, 1787, 
at Colonel Rutherford's. At June tei*m the court assembled at 
the same place on the 4th of the month, present Robert Ruther- 
ford, Levi Casey, Philemon Waters, George Rulf, John Means, 
William Caldwell and Robert Gillam, Justices. They adjourned 
to meet the next day, "at John Coate's, on the north side of 
Bush River, agreeable to the order of September, 1786." At 
this court, Robert Gillam, who had been previously appointed, 
produced his commission and assumed the duties of SherifP. 
At the September court (7th), present, Philemon Waters, George 
Ruff, Levi Manning, Levi Casey, John Means and John Hamp- 
ton, Justices, the following entry was made: "William Cald- 
well, Esq., and Mr. Joseph Wright are appointed to run the 
line agreed on by the Justices to fix the public buildings by, 
and that they retui-n their survey to the Justices on the 4th 
Monday in this month, at the house of John Coate's, and the 
surveyors sworn." The survey was made, and resulted as stated 
in No. 1 ; no entry, however, is made about it until the Septem- 
ber term, 1787, when the Clerk was ordered to pay to William 
Caldwell and Joseph Wright, "surveyors of a line across the 
county, in order to settle the place for the public buildings of 
the said county, the sum of £2 IGs. each, and £3 10s. to the 
chain carriers." The matter remained under the order of Sep- 
tember, '86, until September, '88, when at a court wherein Phile- 
mon Waters, Levi Casey, Robert Rutherford, William Waddling- 
ton and John Lindsey, Justices, presided, an order was made, 
reciting the order of '86, and stating that since it, that part of 
the county below the Orangeburg line had been taken off, and 
therefore the court house and other public buildings should 
be erected on the lands of Samuel Teague, near the Tea Table 
rock, and commissioners were appointed to buy two acres for 
for the same from Mr. Teague, and to have the buildings erected. 
By the Act of 1788, (29th January) the eight miles below the 
Ninety-Six or Orangeburg district line, (now our district line, as 
described in No. 1,) added to Newberry County by the Act of 
1785, were taken off and included in Lexington County. 



10 ANNALS OF NEU'BEREY. 

At March court, 1789, present, Robert Rutherford, James 
Mayson, Jacob Roberts Brown, Philemon Waters, William Calcl 
■well, Mercer Babb and Thomas W. Waters, Justices, it appears 
from an entry that John Coate "made a present to the county 
of two acres, on which to erect the public buildings," which 
was accepted by the vote of all present except Robert Ruther- 
ford, Avho objected "by reason the place was not centrical.-- Col. 
Philemon Waters and William Caldwell were directed to lay out 
the two acres thus given; which they did, and returned a plat. 
It is embraced by the parallelogram made by Caldwell Street on 
the east; Pratt Street, south; McKibben Street, west; Boyct^ 
Street, north. Titles wei'e made, and Mr. Coate was called into 
■court and received the thanks of the Justices for this liber.ility. 

One of his grandsons now lives in the town thus begcun, anil 
will, it is hoped, always receive patronage and respect, for that 
his grandfather gave to public use all that beautiful square 
described. 

In 1791, (19th of February) an Act was passed, constituting, 
as it were, a new era in the County Courts. The number of 
Judges were reduced to three, "to be elected by joint nomina- 
tion by the Senate and House of Representatives." The Judges 
elected for Newberry County were James Mayson, Jacob Roberts 
Brown and George Ruff. Col. Mayson lived in Abbeville, but 
owned the place called Peach Hill, in Newberry. The grand 
jury, at the July term, presented, as a grievance, that one of the 
Juclges lived in another county, and it, with the other present - 
meats, were at October term, ordered to be entered on the 
minutes, and Judge Ruff "was directed to send them to the 
next Legislature." Nothing resulted from this, for Colonel 
Mayson continued, to the dissolution of the county courts, a 
Judge, and a most excellent one too, for Newberry. At July 
term, 92, Judge RufP resigned; Levi Casey was appointed in 
his place. The Act of '98 curtailed very much the jurisdiction 
of the county courts; that of '99, by its 9th clause, ended the 
whole matter by abolishing (most happily) the county courts. 
Newberry was, I think, most fortunate, even in her county 
court administration. Yet I have no doubt there were many 
abuses, and certainly there are a good many rather humorous 
anecdotes arisincr out of it. 



NO. 3. 

As this number will be principally devoted to the preserva- 
tion of some county court anecdotes, I will venture to 
commence it, by relating a matter, the sequel to which i? 
given in the minutes of the county court, now before me. 

In November, '80, at the election of members of the Gen 
eral Assembly, a gentleman, living then on the Beaverdam, 
or Bash River, was a candidate. He was particularly obnox- 
ious to the Enoree settlement. It was found, at the poll, at 
Col. Rutherford's, (the qtiasi court house,) which was I 
presume, then the only one, in the district, that he was receiv 
ing such a number of votes, as would insure his election. I'o 
defeat it, a rather heady young man, (afterwards, and to hi . 
death, in 1810, a good and respectable citizen,) seized tl.c 
hag contairyng the votes, tore it up, and trode the votes iu 
the mud, so that it was impossible any return could be made. 
At March court, 1787, the following entry appears on tli:^ 
journals : "Aaron Gates came into court, and confessed him 
self guilty of a breach of the peace, in disturbing the election 
held in this county, in November last for members of t!" • 
General Assembly, and threw himself on the mercy of Vav 
court, and begged forgiveness for his offence, and prayed a 
bill of indictment might not go to the grand jury — the corr* 
took his case into consideration, and proceeded to fine him 
one shilling," &c. This is, indeed, an unheard of proceedings 
and judgment, in a court of justice : and ^-et, perhaps, the 
times and state of society excused it. 

The pleading, in the county court, is remra'kable for ;ts 
singularity and brevity. I cite the case of Daniel McElduff 
vs. Elizabeth and William Turner — debt. The record is ■ ■, 
follows: "Came the plaintiff by James Yancy, Esq., lis 
attorney, and the defendants, by Chas. Goodwin, gentleman, 
their attoney came and defend and say they are not indebted. 
the plaintiff, as he in his declaration sets forth, and of 
>is they put themselves on the country, and the plaintiff 

es likewise the same. Therefore, the parties join issue f ; 

3 trial of the cause at the next court." 

Some of my friends, who once figured at the Lexingt .a 
, must have taken pattern by this, when such a pie.-:, ;.- 
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18 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

tLe following was pleaded: "The said defendant comes and 
defends, &c., and says, that he does not owe the said plaintifp 
one cent, but on the contrary, he oweth him considerable." 

In the practice of the court, the power of the court to 
punish for contempt was, I see, freely exercised. On one 
occasion, one of the Judges and the County Attorney were 
each fined £5 for contempt, very probably for blows stricken, 
in the presence of the court, and were bound to keep the 
i^cace. At the succeeding term, acknowledgments were made, 
and the fines remitted. But a most extraordinary proceeding 
is mentioned in February term, 1797. Wm. McGlamery, 
Hugh McGlamery and Patrick Bradley, (I give the names, as 
they appear in the minutes — the true names of the two first 
are Wm. and Hugh Montgomery,) had been arrested for an 
a. sault and contempt of the court, (probably fighting in the 
Court yard,) and having broke custody, the Bi'igadter General, 
(Casey, I presume,) issued his orders for their apprehension. 
They were retaken and brought before the court and fined, 
the two first $00 each, the other $20. This was raising the 
posse comitatus with a vengeance ! 

I have heard some other instances of summary punishment, 
..ne of which shows the rude manners of the day. In '87 
or '88, or thereabouts, a cake baker, known better by the 
!ii(;kname of Billy Behold, than his real name, William 
English, was engaged in an affray, in front of Co&te's house, 
where the court was in session, the Sheriff and his j^osse of 
constables were sent out to suppress it. They seized Billy 
Behold, and dragged him in. Unable to get him thi'ough the 
crowd, thronging around the temporary bar, they lifted him 
up over the heads of the people, and threw him down among 
hiwyers. He was ordered to gaol. Next morning he made his 
peace by telling their worships, "behold, behold," he said, 
■may it please your worships, I was a little teddlvated.'"' A 
sii'ange word, Init perhaps a pretty good one to describe^ 
di'unkenness. 

Another instance of the familiarity, and of the want ( « 

respect with which the court was treated, may be give' 
Paddy Bradley, mentioned in the second paragraph above, ' 
n court day, had taken "a wee drap too much," and 1 '. , 
mounted himself up on one end of the long bench occu]' \ ■ -. 



AHVAL.a OF NEWBERRY. 19 

by their worships, who were engaged ia an earnest discassion 
about the ways and means to pay for building a bridge. It 
was urged, one would think, very conclusively, that they had 
not the money, and therefore could not build it. But Paddy's 
drink and Irish propensity to blunder, made him think other- 
wise, and induced him to intrude his advice, "Egad," he said, 
"gie them trust for pay !" Whether they took his sage 
advice or not, I am not informed, but it is more than 
possible they did. 

A scene between Peter Carnes, a well-known lawyer of that 
day, and Judge Mayson in Court, is worth recording. It 
was at June or July term, Carnes made his appearance, in 
his shirt sleeves. Judge Mayson, who was a Scotchman, 
said to him, "Mr. Carnes, the coort don't know you !" 
"Humph," said Carnes, "don't know me, ha !" Turning 
upon his heel, and walking out of court, he purchased a 
blanket, and cutting a hole in it, he thrust his head through, 
and drawing it around him, walked into the court room, 
and presenting himself to their worships, he demanded* 
"Does the court know me now !" The effect may be im- 
agined — an universal laugh excused the contempt. Carnes' 
argument was, that although the rule of court required a 
lawyer to wear a gown, it had not pre.scribed the color, 
and therefore his blanket was a sufficient gown ! 

One of Judge Mayson's judgments is remembered. It was 
characteristic of the man and of the court. The case was 
assault and battery. Timothy Goodman vs. John Tune. 
Goodman was celebrated for card playing, and Tune, as a 
bully. Goodman, it appeared, cheated Tune at cards, an* 
he whipped him. Mayson, for himself and his brethren, 
said "as Mr. Goodman was a carder, and Mr. Tune a 
tighter, the judgment of the court was, that each party should 
pay his own costs, and go without day." 

Carnes and Shaw were rival lawyers, at the county court 
bar of Newberry — Carnes was a very large man — Shaw a 
very small one. Carnes was remarkable for his wit and 
good humor — Shaw for his pride and petulance. The latter 
when irritated could make no argument. On one occasion. 
in a case of some consequence, Carnes had made the opening 
speech, and sat down. Shaw arose and commenced his 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERBT. 



argument alongside of Games. When standing, the lappel 
of the coat of the former was just even with that of the 
latter. Large buttons, and straight-breasted coats were then 
the rage. Games buttoned a button or two of Shaw's coat 
into his, snatched up his hat, jumped up in a great hurry, 
and w^alked to the door, dragging, apparently without noticing 
it, poor Shaw after him. At the door, he affected to have 
discovered it, for the ^rst time, and looking down at him 
with apparent surprise, he exclaimed, ''Brother j)o/j corn, 
what mischievous rascal hitched you to mo ?" The ruse had 
the effect intended. Shaw, when released, was so enraged 
he could not make his speech. 

Games' comment on Robert Starks' tirst speech in an 
assault and battery case at Newberry, and Starks' practical 
reply are too good to be lost. Neither Starks' exterior nor 
speech had impressed Games with any favorable notion of 
his learning or talent. He said to the Judges he did not 
believe the young gentlemen knew what an assault find 
battery was. Starks was instantly on his feet, shaking his 
list in Games' face, he said, ''Ihat is an assault," and drawing 
back, and striking him a full blow in the face with his fist, 
sufficient to have felled an ox, he said, '■'there is battery.'" 

Games sat down, rubbing his forehead, and exclaiming, 
"/ did not think the felloic had so lUKch sense T 

So much for the present. In our next, I propose to go 
back, and look over the population of Newberry in gi(>n[)S, 
before and after the revolution; and in connection with 
such a survey, some matters of history and anecdote may 
be related. 



NO. 4. 

In atterapting to sketch the poi)ulation of the district in 
groups before and after the revolution, much must depend 
upon tradition, until we come within the last forty years ; 
then, indeed, we may speak from some knowledge of our own. 
Previous to this time, which, in legal language we may call 
within the memory of man, there may be occasional inac- 
curacies. When any such are discovered, it would be 
regarded as a singular favor, that thoy should be pointed 
out. 

Nowl)erry was settled very much by three classes of people, 
Germans, Irish, and emigrants from our sister States, North 
Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. 

The Germans, (/. <: the Summers, Mayers, Ruffs, Eigle- 
bergers. Counts, Slighs, Piesters, Grays, DeWalts, Boozers, 
Busbys, Buzzards, Shealys, Bodenbanghs, Cromers, Berleys, 
Hellers, Koons, Wingards, Subers, Folks, Dickerts, Capple- 
mans, Halfacres, Chapman.s, Blacks, Kinards, Bouknights, 
Barrs, Harmons, Bowers, Kiblers, Gallmans, Levers, Hartmans, 
Fricks, Stoudemoyors, Dominicks, Singleys, Bulows, Paysingors, 
Wallerns, Stayleys, Ridlehoovers, Librands, Leapharts, Hopes, 
Housoals, Bernhards, Shulers, Haltiwangers, Swigarts, Meetze.^ 
Schumports, Fulmores, Livingstons, Schmitz, Eleazers, Drehrs, 
Loricks, Wises, Crotwells, Youngoners, Nunamakers, Souters, 
Eptings, HufTmans,) settled almost in a body, in the Fork, be- 
tween Broad and Saluda Rivers; and their settlement extended 
from the junction of the two rivers, opposite to Columbia 
to within three miles and a half of Newberry Court House. 
Much more ol this settlement was included in the original 
county of Newbeiry, when the line extended from a point 
eight miles below Hughey's ferry, on Broad River to the 
mouth of Bear Creek, on Saluda River, than is embraced 
in the present district. Such a line would bring, within 
Newberry, the whole of the old settlement of Springhill, 
west of Mrs. Veal's present residence. In speaking of New- 
berry, we shall consider it proper to speak of it as 
embracing this rich portion of Lexington as well as its 
present limits. 



22 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Tho German settlement, beaded by Adam Summer, the 
father of Col. John Adam Summer, began in 1745, and was 
called the Dutch Fork. Notwithstanding this name, very few 
of the Dutch proper, (Hollanders,) settled in Newberry. Some 
of the settlers were either Palatines, or their descendants. 
To relievo the people of England from the support of the 
poor Palatines, who had been, by the oppression of their 
own government in religions matters, and the invasion of a 
foreign enemy, driven from Germany, and had in large 
numbers come over to England, under the proclamation of 
Queen Anne, and were quartered in tents and booths in 
the vicinity of London, measures were taken early to send 
them off to North Carolina and South Carolina. For in 
1710, ''the inviting, and bringing over the poor Palatines 
of all religions, at the public expense,*' was pronounced by 
Parliament "to be an extravagant and xinroasonable charge 
to the kingdom, and a scandalous misapplication of the 
public money, tending to the increase and oppression of tho 
poor, and of dangerons consequence to tho constitution in 
Church and State, and that who ever advised their being 
brought over was an enemy to the Queen (Anne) and the 
kingdom." After such a resolution, the removal of tho 
Palatines was, as might bo expected," j)ressed and hastened 
in every possible way. Commissioners were appointed by tho 
Queen to collect and receive money for their use, and to 
provide them with settlements. The commissioners allowed 
£5 per head to transport them ; and each of them who had 
received 2(^ shillings of the contributions for their use, 
placed that in the hands of Christopher DeGraffenreid* and 

* This gentleman, Christopher DeGrafFcnrciJ, commonly called and 
known in the histories of America, as Baron DeGraffenreid, was a 
native of the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, and hence the settlement 
of his colony was called New Berne, and this gave rise to the name 
of the town, now known as Newburn, in North Carolina. It is said 
in Williamson's History of North Carolina, that Le abandoned the 
Palatines, and returned to Switzerland. If this bo so, he must have, 
at a subsequent time, returned to tho United States, or ho must 
have left Lis family behind him, when he returned to Switzerland, 
or his family must have afterwards come to America, for his descend- 
ants, Christopher and Allen DeGraftenreid, lived in Union and Chester 
districts to their deaths. The former had in his possession, as I have 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 23 

Lewis Mitchell, who undertook, and did transport CuO, 
(about 120 families,) to North Carolina. A few found their 
way to South Carolina. For them, the township of Saxe 
Gotha on the south side of the Congaree, and in the im- 
mediate vicinage of Granby, was directed to be laid off. 
Before 1740, I learn from the case of the State vs. Starkt> 
8d Brev. 10(i, about twenty settlers answering the descrij)tion 
of the persons for whom the township was laid out, had 
settled in it. But they could not long have maintained 
their footing, for it was subsequently granted and recovered 
by the late Robert Starke, Esq. On the trial of the case 
above cited, one of the witnesses for Starke, the defendant, 
was Frederick Boozer, (the father of our late worthy fellow- 
citizen, David Boozer, who recently, so strangely destroyed 
himself.) After the death of the said Frederick in 1810, 
it was found he had in his possession a grant for u part 
of the said township to his father. Hence, I conclude, he 
was one, of the Palatines. Busby, who died in Edgelield, 
at an age said to be greatly above 100, was another one 
of the witnesses, and proved on the trial the building of 
the fort for the protection of the settlers. He was also, I 
supi)Ose, a Palatine. 

From Dr. Hazelius' excellent work, "The American Lutheran 
Church,'' I learn, that the original German settlers were 
generally from the neighborhood of the Rhine, Baden and 
Wurtemburg. This accords with what is said in Williamson's 
History of North Carolina. We are told in his tirst volume, 
page 170, that the Palatines were from "Heidelberg and 
its vicinity on the Rhine." 

Many of the German settlers, other than the Palatines, as 
well as the Irish, hereafter to be spoken of, received grants 
of land, on what was called the King's bounty ; that is, 

understood, the grants to his ancestor for a large body of land in 
North Carolina. It is said in Williamson's History of Noiih Caro- 
lina, that five thousand acres were granted to DeGraffenreid on bis 
paying 20 shillings for every 100 acres, and six pence (^uit rents, and 
that he complied with these conditions, and thus became Baron 
DeGraffenried. The lands for the Palatines were also granted to him. 
He mortgaged them to Polock : never paid the debt, and thus the 
Palatines lost their land, which is now owned by the Polocks. 



24 



AMNAL8 OF NEWBEBBY. 



9^chHaL These were, ako often called Head Rights. Many of 

the German and Irish settlers, in consequence of their 

gratitude to the King for this bounty, adhered to him in 

,^ emigrants obtained bounty warrants (if I recollect right) of 

C10l> aereH for the head of a family, and 50 acres for each 
the revolution. Some few of the Germans, such as Col. 
John Adam Summer and Major Frederick Gray were ardent 
and devoted whigs. I have been often told, that on the 
field of Stouo, Col. John Adam Summer, then a private, 
was one of the men, who, under the command of Philemon 
Waters, (then, perhaps, only a captain,) brought off an 
American field piece, after it had been abandoned by its 
officers and men. Of Maj. Gray's services, I know nothing, 
certain. His father's family were divided : part adhered to 
the King : ho alone, I think, was a whig. In some of the 
partisan affairs, with which the war abounded, he was 
wounded, but he recovered, lived long in Newberry, at the 
places where James MafEett and Thomas Chandler now live. 
He was major of one of the battalions of the now 39th 
regiment ; he was also a member of the State Legislature ; 
he removetl, when he was an old man, to Abbeville, and 
there dioJ, full of years, surrounded by his numerous highly 
respectable descendants. 

The German ])Oi>ulatioii of Newberry have been at all 
times remarkable for their thrift. Pn^vious to 1804 they still 
occupied, almost without excej)tion, the original settlement, 
the territorial limits of wliich have been herein before 
describoil, Their farm-; wen> generally small. The German 
language was spoken and taught ; and it was sometimes with 
difficulty that German women could be induced, (if they 
were able,) to speak to a stranj^-.*r in English.* Since then. 



♦ It is a singular fact in Natural History that until within the last 
thirty or thirty-five years, iu all that tract of country lyiu^' on Bush 
River, auJ i,'enerally west of a line from the mouth of Bush liiver 
to the month of Tmlian Crook, the ni^lit bird, whoso cry sounds 
"Whip-poor-Will" was that Kf'norally hoard : now and thou a solitary 
"Chuek-Will's-Widow" commonly called the Dutch '' ]\hij)-])oo)'-Wil/," 
(>nlivouod the uijfht. The formor bird is now never heard in any i)art of 
tho district, where I have had the opportunity of observiujj. It 
sometimes salutes mo, like on old aciiuaintance, about Laurens. Tho 
latter bird is now universal with us. The popular notion, was that 



ANNALS OF NEWBBRBT. 



25 



however, their settlements have been gradually extended, 
until they have pretty much lost their nationality, which 
before distinguished them. They are now intermingled with 
the other population of the district. They are now as 
remarkable for their love of imjjrovement, as their ancestors 
were for honest acquisition and industrj'. 

An intimate knowledge of, and acquaintance with the 
German people of Newberry, enable me to say, that for 
honesty, hospitality, untiring industry, fidelity in the discharge 
of every duty, public and private, devoted and unchanging 
friendship, intelligence and a desire for education, they are 
now unsurpassed. In the beginning of the 19th century, 
they wore little disposed to indulge in speculation of any 
kind. I have often heard it said, that any one in whom 
they had confidence, could by riding to three or four houses 
in the Dutch Fork, have borrowed $1,0(X) in silver. Their 
small gains had been carefully hoarded, and were willingly 
loaned to any safe borrower. But in a few years, raising 
cotton, and the spread of intelligence gave them all the 
means of entering successfully, as agriculturi.sts, merchants* 
mechanics, lawyers and doctors, in the race for wealth and 
distinction, and nobly, in hundreds of instances, have they 
succeeded. 

Their hospitality has been always remarkable. Perhaps I 
could sa}-, with truth, nothing delights a Gorman, (a Dutch- 
man, as we familiarly call him,) more than tj have a 
traveler stop with him ; and certainly nothing dolights his 
wife more tliaa to crown the table with enough and to 
spare of good and well cooked provisions. Often have I 
looked with amazement at the cheerfulness with which I 
have seen the ladies of the Fork, toiling day after day, 
and night after night, to make their husband's guests 
comfortable. 

Among the (lerman population, tnitil education and im- 
provement i>ervaded the mass, tlu>re was much superstition, 
such as belief in ghosts, witches and charni.s. 



it traveled westward with the Germans. I presume, however, the true 
Huhitiou is that the "Whip-poor- Will" proper is a more solitary bird, 
and as the forest fulls, and bettlemeuts become more deuso like the 
buffalo, it passes ou, and the latter bird, less solitary, takes Its place. 



26 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

A German of the iiamo of KinarJ, (not, however, related 
to my worthy frieud, Capt. Martin Kinard,) was particularly 
remarkable for his belief in all such foolish and absurd 
notions. He told many extravagant stories of ghosts, who, 
he aflBrmed, were allowed to walk in certain limits. One is 
remembered. He said, that he and an unbeliever were riding 
after night, and were approaching a ghost's walk, when his 
companion, nsing a very unseemly word, said, "there is where 

one of them was sworn in." Kinard said, "I do assure 

you, the word was hardly out of his mouth, when spang a 
hand takes him on th«» side of the head, and comes mighty 
nigh knocking him off his horse." "Aha !" said Kinard, 
"may bo he was not still after dat !" 

A good old lady, belonging to the Irish settlement in the 
Stone hills, near to where he lived, Kinard affirmed to be 
a tnfcfi. "Ah," said he, "may be she does not milk the 
dish rag I" On l)eing challenged for proof he said, he 
milked a great many more cows, and "we churns, and churns, 
and at last wo get a little bit of butter, not so big as 
mine fist. She churns a little and gets a geat big bit, so 
big as mine head." Poor simpleton, the old lady's witchcraft 
consisted in feeding and taking care of her cows. 

A description which ho gave of a Dutch doctor physicking 
himself, tragical as it turned out to be, is too good to be 
lost. He said he was sick, and he went out into the woods, 
and he got "yerbs and roots, and he boiled and boiled, 
until it was as black as tar, and drank a cup full of it, 
and I assures you, it take four men to hold him down till 
he die!" 

I have often heard the Germans of the Fork charged 
with such belief in witchcraft, that at each house, at the 
door step, and nailed to the sill, might be found a horse 
shoe, as a charm against it. But I have never seen any 
thing to justify such an assertion. Indeed, vow, I believe, 
they are as free from such foolery as most people. In 1812, 
Henry Hami)ton, more celebrated for his wit than his law 
knowledge, in arguing File's case, at Newberry, thought 
proper to attack the good old man, whose horse had been 
stolen, Geo. Crotwell, and to say of him and all his brother 
Germans, that thev all believed in witchcraft, and had each 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 27 

a horse shoo nailed beneath his door. The slander traveled 
ahead of him, and so indignant were the Forkers, that on 
his way to Columbia, he could not j;et lodging; for the 
nigbt. 

Many among the Germans once believed in u,sin<j, that is 
the cure of disease by cabalistic words, and i)assing the 
band of the operator over the i)art of the body or limb 
affected. Many well authenticated cures have been found 
in the /'or^-. Since mesmeritun has become fashionable, and 
is believed by many intelligent, well educated men, I confess 
I cannot see why H8i)i<j should not also be. It is but 
another name for viesmerisiii. I fancy. Dr. Koon* can pre- 
sent as many claims to be believed, as Drs. Webster and 
Trotter, and if a college of in.struction in mesmerism was to 
be established in this State, I think Dr. Koon has more 
claims to be President than any man within my knowledge. 

In general, Germans are remarkable for truth. They have 
not as much imagination as the Irish, the English, the 
French, or the Native Americans. They are, therefore, not 
as liable to lie. Notwithstanding this, one of the greatest lies 
I ever heard was ascribed to a DutrJintati. He was reported 
to have said, "I was minding my tadda's sheeps, inside of 
de field, among di'm was a crate pig lighting ram sheep. 
Along, outside of do fence, comes anoder crate pig fighting 
ram sheep; they tid make signs mit their heads at one 
anoder through do fence. I tid let de fence down, and they 
tid come together, ram, jam, and deir horns did make the 
tire fly, so that it did set tire to do woods, and burnt up 
mine tadda's fence — and may be he wash not mad !" 

So much, and perhaps too much, for the present. Here- 
after, I hope to be able to spoak more at large of Col. John 
Adam Summer, and other highly meritorious Germans. In 
the next number, it is proposed to treat of a class of the 
early inhabitants, who have, as a body, entirely disappeared. 
I allude to the Frieiulft, commonly called Quakers. 

* The doctor died soon flftor this was written. 



NO. 5. 

The Quaker settlement was on Bush River and the Beaver- 
dam. It extended from three to four miles on each side of 
the river. A line drawn from the Tea Table Rock, by the 
place once owned by Wm. Miles, now the property of Mathius 
Barr, to Goggan's old field, now Washington Floyd's, would 
be about the northwest limit. The settlement was prolonged 
down the river to the plantation, formerly the property of 
Col. Philemon Waters, now of Chancellor Johnston. No finer 
body of land can be found in South Carolina, than that em- 
braced within those limits. 

When the settlement commenced, or whence came the great 
body of settlers, it is out of my j>ower to say with certainty. 
Certain it is that Wm. Coate, before '(Vi, lived between 
Spring Field and Bush River, and that Samuel Kelly, a 
native of King's County, Ireland, but who came to Newberry 
from Camden, settled at Spring Field in 'G2, John Furnas at 
the same time, and adjoining, made his settlement. David 
Jenkins, about the same time, or possibly a few years before, 
settled on the plantation where major Peter Hare resides. 
Benjamin Pearson and Wm. Pearson lived on the plantation, 
once the property of John Frost, now that of Judge O'Neal], 
as early as 'OU. Robert Evans, who settled the place now 
owned by Sampson Marchant, came also from Camden, pro- 
bably between '<)2 and '09. John Wright, Jos. Wright, Wm. 
Wright, James Brooks, Joseph Thomson, James Patty, Gabriel 
McCook', John Coate, (Big) Isaac Holliugsworth, Wm. O'Neall, 
Walter Herbert, Sr., Daniel Parkins, Daniel Smith, Samuel 
Miles, David Miles, William Miles, Samuel Brown, Israel 
Gaunt, Azariah Pugh,* William Mills, Jonathan and Caleb 
Gilbert, John Galbreath, Jauu's Galbreath, James Co})pock, 
John Coppock, Josej)h Reagin, John Reagin, Abel and James 
Insco, Jesse Spray, Samuel Teague, (Joorge Pemberton, Jehu 
Inman, Mercer Babb, James Steddani, John Crumpton, Isaac 
Cook, John Jay, Rea.son Reagen, Thomas and Isaac Hasket, 
Thos. Pearson, the two Enoch Pearsons, Samu€>l Pearson, 
Nehemiah Thomas, Abel Thomas, Timotliy Thomas, Euclydiis 



* The ancestor of Senator Pu}fb, of Ohio. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEHBY. 20 

Longshore, Sarah Duncan, Samuel Duncan, and John Duncan, 
were residents of the same tract of country before or during 
tho revolution, and were Friends or were ranked as such by 
descent 

The Friends had three places of meeting, ono, the oldest 
and principal, at Bush River, where their house of worship 
still stands, neglected, but not desecrated. Within the grave 
yard, south of it, sleep hundreds of the early settlers of 
Bush River. Often have I seen more than five hundred 
Friends, women and children, there gathered together to 
worship God in silence, and to listen to the outiwuring of 
the spirit, with which some of the Friends, male and female, 
might be visited. In imagination, often can I see the aged 
form of the elder David Jenkins, sitting immediately below 
the preacher's bench, on the left of the southern entrance to 
the men's meeting, leaning on the head of his staff, his large 
protruding lower lip, the most remarkable feature of his face. 
Alongside of him might be seen the tall form and grey 
hairs of Tanner Thomson, as ho used to be called. Scarcely 
could the sacred stillness of Friends' meeting keep him from 
snapping his thumb and finger together, as if feeling a side 
of leather. Just here I recall the person of Isaac Hollings- 
worth. His was a stalwart form, more than six foet high. 
He sits the picture of firmness, and ever and anon, throwing 
up the ample brim of his flai)ping beaver, ho looks as if ho 
was restless for execution. He it was of whom youni'sters 
who did not know the meaning of "turning out of meeting" 
used to suppose the duty was demanded of leading an errini' 
member to the door, saying to him, as he a}>plied his foot to 
the seat of honor : "Friends have no further use for thee." 
A little further to the right or lower down, might be seen 
the pale features of that excellent man, Joseph Furnas ! 
Near to him was to be seen the tall, erect form, florid com- 
plexion, clear, blue eye, am])lo forehead, aud grey hair of 
Jolm Kelly, Sr. ; just alongside of him might bo soon Isaac 
Kirk. Frioud Kirk, as ho used to be called, was a true 
Quaker. He was plain and simi)lo as a child, kind and for- 
bearing in every thing. No bettor heart was over covered by 
a straight-breasted coat. He had his peculiarities : one, that 
in r(>ading, ho road as if ho was singing the i)assages - an ■ 



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ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 



other, that whi'n talkiut^ to any one his foot had always to 
bo in motion. It was, therefore said, when he called on a 
debtor to dun hiui, his mission was known l)y his kickinw 
the chips, sticks, and stones all around. In this vicinatrc 
might be se(»n the person of Samuel (launt, dressed with all 
the precision of a Quaker, but neat as a \nn. A little above 
him might be seen the tall form and gray hairs of James 
Brooks. A little lower might be seen the brothers, Abijah. 
Hugh, William, John, Henry, and Thomas O'Neall. Some 
description of some of these may be afterwards attempted, but 
here will not now be given. 

In the women's meeting, on the preacher's bench, under 
their immense white beavers, I recall the full round faces 
and forms of the sisters, Charity Cook and Susannah Hoi 
lingsworth. Both wives, both mothers of large families, still 
they felt it to be their duty to preach ''Jesus and him cruci- 
fied." The first, Charity Cook, was indeed a gifted woman. 
She traveled throiTgh the States extensively. Twice visited 
England and Ireland. When her husband drove his stag(> 
wagon into Rabun's creek, at a time when it was high, 
drowned two horses, and only escaped drowning himself by 
riding a chunk to land, she swam to the shore, and thus 
saved herself. Her sister, Susannah Hollingsworth, was not 
so highly gifted. Henry O'Neall, and other young Friends. 
used to affirm, that when Aunt Suzey, as she was called, 
began to pray, they could always keep ahead of her by 
repeating the. words she was about to. say. Just below the 
preacher's bench, the once round and graceful form (after 
wards bent by <S2 winters) of Hannah Kelly, once Hannah 
Belton, a native of Queen's County, Ireland, might be seen. 
No more intelligent, kind, or benevolent face ever met the 
upturned gaze of her juniors. Well might it be said of her, 
that she was indeed "a mother in Israel." Her eye of blue, 
her long straight nose, high cheek bones, and clear Irish 
complexion, can scarcely ever be forgotten by those who saw 
her. Their other places of meeting were Rocky Springs, now 
a Baptist meeting house, and "White Lick, on the land where 
Robert Burton now lives. They wore much junior to that of 
Bush River, and therefore they are not necessary to Ik* 
further described. 



AKNALS OF NEWBERRY. 31 

Every thing relating to Friends here is now a novelty. 
Their very dress, the broad-brimmed, low crowned hats, 
straight-breasted, collarless coats; l)reeches without suspen- 
ders, and of the plainest color, is strange to lis uow, but was 
and is defended upon the ground that they seek no cham^e ~ 
it is comfortable, and as they found society dressod in the 
time of George Fox, so it is with them now. The dress of 
tlie females, was ecjually plain, and def(Mid»Hl on the same 
ground. White beavers, with the mere indentation for a 
crown, with a brim around it of full six inches every way. 
secured on the head by a plain white ribbon 2)assing throui'h 
loops, or i)erfectly plain silk bonnets Ccilled hoods ; cajis as 
plain as possible ; long-waisted gowns or wrap})i'rs and petti- 
coats, constituted the font mscinhlc of a Quaker lady's dress. 
Their language 'thou,' to a single person, or 'you' to more 
than one, was grammatical, and free from all {personal idola- 
try, and therefore they used it. It is true, that it was 
corrupted, and 'thee' the objective instead of the nomina- 
tive case of the personal pronoun was used. 

They met to transact business juid worshij) on the fifth 
day (Thursday,) weekly, and on the seventh day, (Saturday,) 
monthly. There vfore also (juarterly and yearly meetings 
of delegates. The meeting for worshii> was every first day 
(Sunday) at 11 o'clock. At that hour all entered the house, 
and sat covered and in silence for an hour, unless the 
spirit moved some Friend to speak. Any Friend may speak 
under the influence of the spirit, but in general only those 
speak in public whose gifts have been approved. If prayer 
be made, then the Friend who prays, uncovers himself, 
and kneeling down, utters the petitions which the spirit 
prompts. The congregation rise and the men are uncovered 
during prayer. As .soon as it is closed, all take their seats 
covered. At the end of the hour, the elder members grasp 
one anoth(M- by the hand, walk out and every body starts 
for home. 

Just hei'e, I may be pardoned for stoi)j)ing and relatin<'' 
an anecdote. John Wright, the father of Charity Cook 
and Susannah Hollingsworth. was a very aged man at the 
time of which I am al>out to sjieak. but jirincipaliy accus- 
tomed to walk to and from meeting. He was living with 



82 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

his daughter, Susannah Hollingsworth; something prevented 
her from going to meeting; she induced the old man to 
ride her mare. This he did; but after meeting, ho walked 
out of the meeting house, and home as usual. As he 
entered the door, his daughter said to him, "Father, where 
is the mare?" "Dads me, Sue, I forgot her," was the old 
man's i)rompt reply. This old gentleman before his death, 
assembled his sons, his sons' wives, his daughters, his daugh- 
ters' husbands, his grand children, and their respective wives 
and husbands, and his great grand-children. When all were 
assembled, they numbered one hundred and forty -four. Did 
ho not deserve well of the Republic? Where can such a 
family now be found? 

A pair of young people about to marry are said to pass 
meeting by their purpose being announced at one monthly 
meeting, when a committee is appointed to inquire if there 
bo any objections. At the next, if their report bo favorable, 
Friends assent to the marriage, and on the succeeding fifth 
day (Thursday) it takes place by the man and woman stand- 
ing up and holding one another by the right hand, and 
repeating the ceremony. The man says about as follows: "I 
take this my friend to be my wedded wife, whom I will love, 
cherish and her only keep, \intil it shall please the Lord to 
separate us by -death." The woman says: "I take this my 
friend to bo my husband, whom I will love, honor and 
obey until it shall i)leaso the Lord to separate us by death." 
I may not be accurate in the words. I am sure I am 
in substance, although I never saw but two marriages of 
Friends, one of Robert Evans and Keren Hajipuch Gaunt in 
1800; and the other of Joseph Stanton and Sarah Hollings 
worth in 1807. As soon as the ceremony is repeated, they 
sit down; a Friend, most generally the clerk of the men's 
meeting, reads a certificate of the marriage, which is signed 
by Friends present. The meeting then proceeds, as usual, 
to its close. I ought to have mentioned before, that there 
is a clerk of both the men's and women's meeting. Every 
thing of importance is regularly entered upon their l^ooks, 
such as business transactions, marriages, births and deaths. 
Every child born of parents who are Friends, is by descent 
a Friend. The same result follows, if th(» nu^ther alon(» be 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 33 

a Friend. No beggar or pauper was ever known among 
Friends. They take care of all such. Their meeting of 
Sufferings provides for these and all other wants. 

The Quaker community of Bush River was a most inter- 
esting one. Small farms, enough and to spare, among all, 
was its general state. Hard working, healthy, yet an honest, 
innocent and mirthful, though a staid people, make up 
altogether an interesting picture. It is true, among theui 
were many hickory, or formal Quakers; now and then 
some wet, or grog-drinking Quakers; and now and then 
some cheating Quakers. But these are now no more — of 
each I would only say, "requiescat in ])ace.-'' The only 
valid objection which I know to th^^^ractico of Friends is, 
that they do not generally sufficiently attend to the religi- 
ous education of their children and the reading of the 
Scriptures. In this respect, there are, I know, many, very 
many illustrious exceptions; and I believe their rules require 
the Scriptures to be read, and their children to be religi- 
ously instructed. In other points, I think no roligious 
community can present better claims for respec% and even 
the admiration of men. 

In the beginning, Friends were slave owners in South 
Carolina. They however, soon sat their faces against it, 
and in their peculiar language, they have uniformly borne 
their testimony against the institution of slavery, as irreli 
gious. Such of their members as refused to emancipate 
their slaves, when emancipation was practicable in this' 
State, they disowned. Samuel Kelly, who was the owner of 
a slave or slaves in '02, when ho came from Camden, refused 
to emancipate his, on the grounds that he had bought and 
paid for them : they were therefore his property ; and that 
they were a great deal better off as his property, than they 
would be if free. Ho was therefore disowned. His brother's 
children manumitted theirs. Some followed them to Ohio ; 
others have lived Iwre free, it is true, but in indigence and 
misery, a thousand times worse off than the slaves of Samuel 
Kelly and their descendants. For the far-seeing old gentleman 
took good care in his last will, that the bulk of his slaves 
who were left to his widow, should not be emancipated, by 
{giving her the power to dispose of them at her death, provided 
1 C 



34 ANNALS OF NEWBERRV. 

it was to some inomber of or niuonj^ bis family. Friends aro 
opposed to war ; they therefore hold everything which apper 
tains to it to be contrary to their discipline. Hence, Generals 
Greene and Brown were disowned. Still, however, they never 
entirely forgot their duty to their country. I have before 
me now the soldier's song, on the receipt of the Quaker's 
]>resent of 1(),0(X) flannel shirts, to the army marching from 
England into Scotland, against the Pretender: 

"l^his friendly waistqpat keeps my body warm, 
Intrepid on the march auJ free from harm, 
A coat of mail, a sure defenilor, 
Proof aj,'aiust the Pope, the Devil, ami Pretender. 
The Highland plaid of no such force can boast ! 
Armed thus, I'll pluuj?o the foremost in their host, 
With all my force, with all my strength, with all my might. 
Ami ftr/ht for those whose creed forh'nl to fight 1'^ 

Aft^r tbo ])loody battle of (xuilford, gladly did Friends obey 
the call of him, whom, although disowned, they gloried in 
claiming as a Qiiaker, Nathaniel Greene, and rushed in throngs 
to take charge of the wounded Americans and Britons ! 

Between 'U7 and *U1>, Abijah O'Xeall and Samuel Kelly, Jr., 
bought iho military land of Jacob Roberts Brown, in Ohio ; 
the great body of it was in Warren County, near Waynesville. 
Abijah O'Neall visited, located the land, and in '09, in the 
language of Samuel Kelly, Sr. : 

"Beyond the mountain and far away, 
With wolves and bears to play," 

ho commenced his toilsome removal to his we.stern liome. 
Vv'lieu about starting, he applied to friends for his regular 
certiticate of membership, «!v:e. This tbey refused him, on the 
ground that his removal was itself such a thing as did not 
meet their approbation. Little did they tlieti dream that in 
l«\ss than ten years they would all be around him in the then 
far West! 

Abijah O'Neall was about live feet eight inches high, stout, 
round shouldered, light brown hair, eyes grey, nose Roman, 
mouth protruded slightly, his face had the appearance of 
gre:it lirmaess. Such was his character. He came up to tlu' 
Latin description, ''rr<- bonus tcunx ]tr(»iK>.'<i.fi." Every body 
"knew this, as may be better illustrated by a little anecdote: 



AXSALS OF NEWBERRY. H't 

a young man boarding with him, disposed to \>h\y off a joke 

on an old family negro, who had been manumitted, but who 

still lived with Miss Anne, (as ho called Mrs. O'Neall,) seized 

the old man ou his way to mill, and said to him, "Jack, I'll 

carry you off and sell you." "You can't do dat," said Jack; 

"de bery Bije (the usual abbreviation of the name Abijah) 

can't do dat." He had some .strange peculiarities. For many 

years before his death, he would not sleep on a feather bed; 

he must have a straw bed. Again, he cut his hair as close 

as possible, and had at least two windows in the crown of 

his hat. This was to keep his head cool. He drank neither 

tea nor coffee. He was a surveyor, and after he went to Ohio 

spent much of his time in the woods as such, and as a hunter 

in the pursuit of game. He believed tirmly that this Statf 

would, in time, become as sterile as the deserts of Arabia. 

Such at least were his words in ISIO, when I last saw him. 

But it will be asked, what became of the Friends ? Between 

1800 and 1804, a celebrated Quaker preacher, Zachary Dicks. 

passed through South Caiolina. He was thought to have also 

tfff' yff "f J>r(>i>licctj. The massacres of San Domim^o were 

then fresh. Ho warned Friends to come out from slavery. 

He told thorn if they did not thi'ir fate would bo that of the 

slaughtered Islanders. This produced in a short time a panic. 

and removals to Ohio commenced, and by 1807 the Quaker 

.settlement had, in a great degree, changed its population. 

John Kelly, Sr., Hugh O'Neall, John O'Neall, Henry O'Neall, 

James Brooks, Isaac Kirk, Walter Herbert, William Wright. 

Samuel Gaunt, William Pugh, and Timothy Thomas alone 

remained. Land which could often since, and even now after 

near forty years cultivation in cotton, can be sold for $10, §1,") 

and §20 per acre, was sold then for from i?8 to !?n. Newberry 

thus lost, from a foolish panic and a superstjtious fear of an 

institution, which never harmed them or any other body of 

people, a very valuable^ portion of its white population? But 

they are gone, never to return I It is our busine.ss to repair 

the loss, by better agriculture, more attention to the mechanic 

arts, and more enterprise. Thus acting, ©ur wasted tields will 

yet blossom like the rose, our streams will resound with the 

music of machinery, and our hills will be vocal with the song's 

of industry and peace. 



30 ANNALS OF NEVSBEBBY. 



Note to No. 5. 

The screw auger was invented in Newberry by a Quaker, 
Benjamin Evans, who lived on a place now owned by Gillam 
Davenport, and who removed with other Friends to Ohio. 
Joseph Smith and John Edmondson learned the trade with 
him, and followed it ; the first until he was unable to follow 
it longer ; the latter until he secured an independence. Many 
a box of screw augers have I seen sent by wagons to Charles- 
ton, between 1800 and 1807. I think Samuel Maverick,* who 
now resides near Pendleton, then in Charleston, shipped some 
to England. Some one will ask, what sort of auger was 
jireviously used ? The barrel, auger, with a mere bit to enter 
the wood. 

In rummaging some old papers, I found the following : 

"Camp at Brooks' Plantation, 5th, Januarj-, 1781. 
"This is to certifiy that James Galbreath has suppUed the first Bat- 
talion 7l8t Regiment, with one himdred dozen sheaves of Oats, and 
ten bushels Indian Corn. 

"Colin Campbell, Q. M. Ist Bat. 17th Beg." 

"Brooks' plantation" is where Clement Nance, Esq., formerly 
lived, near Bush River. James Galbreath was a Friend, and 
was never paid for his oats and corn. The 71st Regiment 
was part of Tarleton's command, which was then in pursuit 
of Morgan, and which twelve days afterwards fought the 
battle of the Cowpens, and were made prisoners. Tarleton 
marched from Cornwallis' camp at Winnsborough, Fairfield 
District, across Broad River, thence to incercept Morgan, who 
made an apparent move on Ninety-Six. In the direct line to 
reach that place, or strike Morgan between there and Ham- 
monds' old store, he arrived at Rush River ; one battalion of 
the 71st he threw across the river, and encamped it on its 
.southwestern bank, at Jacob Chandler's, (now James Tinn's,) 
the other, with the main body of Tarleton's command, was 
encamped on the northeast side of the river, at Brooks' planta- 

* Mr. Maverick died since this was written. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 37 

tioQ. la the night a great fall of raia took place, and made 
the river impassable ; there was no bridge across it, except 
at William O'Neall's mills (now Bobo's) five miles below 
Chandlers'. To unite the 2d Battalion with the 1st, it had 
to descend the river, and after encamping for one night, at 
least, at "William O'Neall's, it crossed at his mills, and united 
with the main body near Coate's shop, (Newberry Court 
House,) and encamped at the Tea Table Rock. Thence the 
march was dii>ected, with little variation, for Morgan's camp, 
at the Grindall Shoals on Pacolet, and afterwards to the 
Cowpens. I suppose a delay of several days, perhaps throe 
or four, occurred about Bush River. This, at the outside, 
would have brought Tarleton to the Tea Table Rock by the 
9th January ; from it to the Cowpens does not exceed seventy- 
five miles. How eight days could have been spent between 
these points, is to me inconceivable, especially when Tarleton 
is represented in history as rushing on his flying foe with his 
infantry mounted behind his cavalry. This discovery of the 
true date of his encampment at Bush River, shows that he 
approached the old wagoner with slow and cautious marches. 

From Tarleton's Campaigns in the Soiith, now before me, 
it seems that on the 2d January, 1780, Lord Cornwallis, still 
at Winnsboro', directed Tarleton, then west of Broad River, 
"If Morgan is stiU at Williams','' (in the lower or eastern 
part of Laurens District, and not far from Ninety-Sis) "or 
anywhere within your reach, I should wish you to push him 
to the utmost." Morgan never was at Williams' ; a detach- 
ment from his command, commanded by Cornet Simmons, had 
previously captured Williams' Fort. 

On the 4th of January, Tarleton, writing to Lord Corn- 
wallis, thus speaks of the country around Brooks', his encamp- 
ment : "My encampment is now twenty miles from Birely's. 
in a plentiful forage country, and I can lay in four days' 
flour for a move." — Tarleton Campaign. Notes F. and G. 
244-0. 

I annex three bills of goods bought in Charleston : one 
without date, and one in '83, and made out in Soiith Carolina 
currency, 7 for 1 ; the other is 1777, and is made out in the 
same currency, and appears to have been paid in current 
bills, issued probably in the State from 1774 to 1783. These 



38 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



three papers will give a better idea of the difficulty of the 
times than any description. 



Mr. Wm. O'Neall 



Bo't of Eowl'd Eugeley 



1 Paper Pins3s9d; 1 pr Woms Hose 17s6 £ 1 

1 Pr Woms Hose 17s6 ; 2 lb Allspice 10s 1 

14 yds Green Callimanco, a 10s 7 

4 yds E«d Durant a 15s is 608 3 

20 Bushels Salt a 17s6 17 

4 Wool Hats a 13s9 is 55s ; 2 yds Callo is 35s 4 

1 Pc Tape 7s6 

2 lb Coffee is 15s 

8 Copperas a 2s6 is 20s; i^lb Ginger 5s 1 

1 India Silk Handkf 62s6 1 

187 lbs Bar Iron a 1£ 13 

55 lbs Ax Barr a 2s6 7 

30 lbs Brown Sugar 5 

39 Wire Sieve, 35 ; 5 gallons Molasses a 12s6 is 62s6 4 

v2 Quire Paper 7s6 



Deduct 1 gall molasses. 



1 


3 


12 • 


(5 


10 




10 




7 





15 




5 




12 







9 


12 


1 


17 


• 6 


15 





£69 : 19 : 6 
12 : 6 

£69 : 7:0 



Ree'd of Mr. O'Neall 
2 Barrls Flour ; Gro 606 
R 60 



446 a 95 25 18 6 

2 Perkins Butter 184 E 34 is 150 a 2s9 20 12 6 

1 Perk Do 94 E 16 78 a 18 5 17 - 

52 : 8:0 

16 : 19 : - 

Mr. William O'Neall 

1783 th Bo't of Parker &: Hutchings 

January 12, 2 Pewter Dishes and 2 Basons; ro't ll^ lb 

at 19s £ 5„12„5 

1 Hoe 17s6 ; 2 Doz'n fish Hooks 5s 1„ 2„6 

1 Sad Iron 15, Scarlet Cloak 90s 5„ 5„- 

1 Pr Spurs, 1 Ss; 1 in tacks 12s7; 1 in ditto 15s... 2„ 2„6 

3 inPd Nails at 37s6 and bag 5s6 5„15„- 

1 fur Hat 57s6 ; 1 Doz'n knives and forks 30s... 4„ 7„0 

1 Sett Bosses 5s ; 10 yds Camblet £5 5„ 5„1 

7 vds Greece Calimanea at lls3 3„10„9 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 39 

1 Blk Silk hbkf 32s6 ; 1 Iron Pott 20s 2„12„G 

1 Tin Kettle 30s, 16-54 lb Steel at 3s9 : 4„12„i) 

4 yds Girth Webb 15e ; 1 lb pepper 15s 1„10). 

1 Doz'n Cups and Saucers, lOs : 1 Tea Pott 

6s3 ,J6„3 

6 Plates, 4 Bassons and 1 Dish ; ro't 13 14 lb... 6„12„6 

5 pds Black Lasting at 2766; 1 Frying Pan 26s6. 8„ 5„» 
23 lb Sugar, at 3s9 4„ G„3 

2 lb Teller Oaker -„10„- 

23 yds Coat Binding at ls3 1„ 8„9 

] Candle Moto 20s ; 6 lbs of Iron at £7 10s... 5,,11„6 

1 Pr Salts 7s6 ; Sticktwist 3s9 -„11„3 

1 Scaiu Silk 389 ; 3 yds Donlas 33s9 1„15„6 

2 Dozen Buttens 7s6 ; 3 Large do 2s6 -.,10,,- 

1% yd Blk Shalloon 26s3 ; 1 ps Cheek 23 23 ds 

at 10s 12„16„3 

11.^ yds fine Swan Skin at 15s 1„ 2„6 

}4 Doz'n Tin Cups -„15„- 

£87,, 6„9 
By 1340 lb nt Tobacco 67,,—,,- 

Bal'ce due P. & II 20„ 6„9 

Mr William O'Neall Cha's Town, agt 20th 1777. 

Bo't of Tho's Bourke 

201^ Bushels Salt a 77s6 and 5 Bbble 20 £95 : 8 : 9 

100 Iron a £17 10s 17 : 10 : 

1 Gallon Bum £5 5 : — : - 

11 lbs Steel a 9s 1 : 19 : - 

4 Gallons N. Rum a 75s 15 : — : - 

3 pints Rum 2 : — : - 

3 lbs Coffee 2:5:- 

4 lbs. Brimstone a 5s 1 : — : - 

3 Hatts a £4 12 • — : - 



£155 : 2 : 9 



Received of Mr. Wm. O'Neal Twenty-Eight Pounds Currency, in full 
of all account as under. 

THOMS .^OURKE. 
Error in the above 20 Busls Salt £15— being over cost in mistake. 
Cash rec'd this 23 May, 1778 13 

£28 



40 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 



NO. n. 

The Irish settlers of Newberry did not locate themselves in 
one body. Some, the Thompsons, McQuerns, Drannans, Youngs. 
Fairs. Carmichaels, and Hunters, settled in the Stone Hills, or 
just in the west margin of that tract. The descendants of 
many of them are still residents of the district. The place 
now called Stony Battery was the residence of two of the 
Thompsons, Daniel and William. Samuel McQuerns was a 
blacksmith ; honest, industrious, and persevering, he succeeded 
in securing a competence. His shop stood at the spot where 
the old Congaree road, now called the Eush River road, turns 
off from the Lee's ferr}' road. He was a man of remarkable 
physical powers, but could not compare with his father, who, 
when a laborer, in Ireland, said, he did two men's work in a 
day, and had two men's allowance. Sam'l McQuerns had 
been impressed as a sailor, in the British navy. He was 
present at Spit Head when the Royal George, of 110 guns 
was sunk. His description of the scene was awful. It was 
pay-day on the ship ; most of the sailors had their w^omen on 
board. He represented that 300 such were drowned. He 
usually closed that portion of his account by saying ''there 

was a brave slaughter of w s, till you." Ho was one of 

the boat's crew sent on the perilous duty of the rescue of 
mam^ o^ the drowning men. The officer of his boat observing 
a man pick up a goose, knocked him down instantly, saying, 

"d n y're eyes, v/ill you offer to snatch a goose when men 

are drowning all around you ?" The sinking of this noble 
ship is matter of history. The gallant Admiral w^ent to the 
bottom, in her cabin, seated in his chair, apparently over- 
whelmed in an instant by the rushing flood. It seems that 
the accident occurred by running her metal to one side, and 
thus careening her until she shipped the sea, which in an 
instant filled her immense bowels, and sunk her in that cle- 
ment over which she had floated the symbol of "Britannia 
rules the waves." 

These settlers were Seceders, now called Reformed Presbv- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 41 

terians. Their meeting house, Prosperity, is still in the place 
where first worshipped the emigrants. 

As a body, none better deserved the character of good 
citizens than they did. In hard and industrious labor, as 
mechanics and agriculturists, they laid the foundations of that 
competence which they respectively acquired. Few of the 
original settlers survive. William Fair is the only one of 
them now living, near the original Irish settlement, called the 
Stoney Hills.* He is now a very aged man, approaching to 
eighty, but still retaining much of the activity of his younger 
years. He may often be seen on a sale day, walking the 
streets of Newberry, slender, tall, and straight, as if time had 
made a slight impression upon him. By continual industry 
and temperate habits, he has raised and educated a large 
family, and provided an ample inheritance for them all. His 
sons, Jas. Fair, Esq., of Abbeville, Archibald Fair, of Florida, 
Col. Simeon Fair, of Newberry, Dr. Samuel Fair, of Columbia, 
Gen. E. Y. Fair, of Montgomery, Alabama, and Dr. Drury 
Fair, of Selnia, Alabama, are the best proofs which can be 
offered of their ancestor's worth. Anather, .William Hunter, 
the oldest son of good old Nathan, is, I presume, still alive.f 
Two years ago I saw him at the Court House, and he said 
to me, (if I remember right,) that he was then in his eighty- 
sixth year. Everything about him seemed to me to say, that 
the stout constitution of the Irish weaver might carry him 
safely beyond ninety. Most fervently do I wish it may ! For 
none better deserve the blessing of length of days than such 
an honest, pure-hearted, laborious mechanic, as he has always 
been. .--''" 

"Another settlement of the Irish commenced jiist about Frog 
Level, and extended along the Charleston road, north and 
'west to Crotwell's old place. In this section were found the 
Boyds, (not the family of our Ordinary,) M^Clelands, Greggs, 
Wilsons, Conners, Neals, McNeils, Camerons, Flemings. Some 
of these were as remarkable for their thrift as the Stoney 
Battery settlers, but this was not the case in general. 

* Since writing the foregoing, he died, Monday, 15th December, 
1851, in his 82d year. 

t This was Avritten in 1850, Since theu he has been gathered to 
his fathers. 



42 



AXNALS UF NEWBERRY. 



One of the men mentioned here, James Fleming, was the 
subject of lynch law. in the time of the Eegulation, 1764. 
The tree, the great oak, on the south side of the road, and 
opposite to the spring, at Springfield, is the only surviving 
witness of the transaction. An incident connected with his 
subsequent life may better illustrate the character of the in- 
habitants than anything else which I can give. He was 
chopping, (/. e. cutting down a tree,) some distance from his 
house. In its fall, his leg was caught under it, or some of 
the smaller trees broken down by its fall ; he managed to 
extricate it, and sat down on the log ; his cry for assistance 
brought to his aid a neighbor, Thos. Reagan. When he came, 
James was swinging his broken leg from side to side, and 
said to him, as he walked up with his axe on his shoulder, 
"take your axe, Tammy, and chap it ofP." But this the stout 
farmer would not do. He shouldered poor Jamie, and carried 
him home. The leg was so shattered, and the bone protruded 
so far through the skin, that the skill of the neighbors was 
unavailing to set it. A Dutch doctor was sent for and before 
he could perform the operation, it was found, as he thought, 
necessary to cut off a part of the shin bone. To do this, a 
hand saw was the only instrument. For this painful opera- 
tion, he was held by John McCleland, commonly called "'Wee 
Jack." To him, Jamie said "och, Johnny, I canna thoult," 
''but ye maun thoult," was Jack's answer. On being asked by 
a ''Friend," "did not he (Jamie) complain mightily ?" Jack 
replied, in his short quick manner, "he gurned a wee bit." 
"How could thee hold him. Jack ?" was the next inquiry. "I 
could have haud him down till he wud have been sawed a 
two of the meddle," was Jack's fierce i"eply. Notwithstanding 
this rough practice, Jamie got well, and lived many a suspected 
day afterwards. 

Just at the upper end of this settlement, called ''jVIullex- 
ander," lived "William Gregg, remarkable for his honesty and 
many virtues. On being solicited to subscribe to pay the 
preacher, he said, "no, faith, I'll no subscribe, I'll just gie 
sax pence for every sermon I hear him preach." At this 
good man's house lived for a time two Irish emigrants of 
a later day, but long citizens, and worthy citizens, too, of 
NeAvberry. I allude to Samuel McCalla and Samuel Spence. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 43 

The life of the first would furnish in some of its details 
materials for a romance, and yet be true ! He was one of 
the Irish Rebels, as they were called in England, here, we 
should say Irish Patriots of '98. He was captured I presume, 
in the disastrous route of Vinegar Hill. He owed his life, 
as I have often heard him say, to a lady, who pulled the 
epaulette off his shoulder, and the feather from his hat, not 
five minutes before he was taken. He was marched day after 
day, to the place of execution, and witnessed the "short 
shrift" of many of his companions, Ireland's murdered sons. 
At last he was given his choice, to serve his Majesty seven 
years, or be transported from the kingdom. He chose the 
latter, and as he used to say, he put in leg bail in the West 
Indies, and sought his future home in Newberry. Here he 
pursued, first, the business of a stone mason and brick layer, 
afterwards that of a hatter, till he had enough and to spare. 
But during the long period, from '98 to 1818, he was sepa- 
rated from his wife and child. He often paid their passage 
to America, but until 1818, he was not allowed to fold them 
to his anxious bosom. He was then a Justice of the Peace 
for Newberry ; but only a few years was left him for happi- 
ness. His constitution, broken by repeated attacks of fever, 
gave way, and in the fall of '24, he passed from this transi- 
tory world. 

Samuel Spence, tailor Spence, as he used to be called, who 
does not remember ? His wit, industry, honesty and virtue 
commend his memory to all his surviving acquaintances. 
Ever on his board, until he secured competence, and more 
than competence, he could say with truth to his countrymen, 
ivork, and you cannot fail to succeed. Many and many an 
unfortunate Irishman, ho fed, clothed, and found employment, 
until he could do better. Few men will be found hereafter 
among us, who will so well fill the place of the good citizen 
and honest man. 

The Irish of this settlement, like that below, were also 
generally Seceders. Their place of religious meeting was 
Cannon's Creek. Here still their children, who remain, wor- 
ship God as their fathers did. Scattered through the Black 
Jack section of Newberry were the Montgomerys, Sloans, 
Spences, Wrights, Caldwells, Wilson, (Thomas and James). 



44 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Another family of the Caldwells was located in the Dutch 
Fork. Of this last family was Chancellor Caldwell. His 
father, Dan Caldwell, died in the great epidemic of 1810.* 
He died early, but his life was such an one, that he had no 
enemies ! For he was, indeed, a man without spot. James 
Wilson lived to be, I think, almost an hundred years old. 
One of his grandsons, Joe Caldwell, is now one of the most 
successful planters of Newberry, and pushing his interests in 
Florida. In the Long Lane, Gilders and King's Creek's 
settlements, lived the Glenns, Chalmers, McMorries, Glas- 
gows, McCrackens. Higher up, between Indian and Duncan's 
Creeks, and Duncan's Creek and Enoree, might be found the 
Boyces, Marshalls, McKees, Gordons, McCreless, John Boyd, 
of Ballamena, the Mars, Madigans, and the Hughes. f 

Col. Glenn, the father of my worthy friends, (two of New- 
berry's best citizens,) Col. John and Dr. George AV. Glenn, 
was a revolutionary soldier. 

William Chalmers, the father of such respectable men as 
Capt. James, David and Dr. Alexander W. Chalmers, here 
began his struggle for competence, which a long life of 
industry enabled him to realize. 

Capt. John McMorries, the father of the worthy citizens of 
our town and district, of that name, was born in Fairfield 
District on the 5th January, 1769, in a few months after the 
landing of his parents in the United States from Ireland. 

* Since writing this passage, which was originally prepared "of this 
family, is Chancellor Caldwell," the melancholy intelligence of the 
death of James J. Caldwell, a Chancellor of the State, has reached me; 
probably while writing it he was breathing his last. Truly are we 
constantly in the midst of death ! His age, not more than fifty, 
promised many years of usefulness in his distinguished position; but 
God, who sees not as man sees, thought it best that his labors here 
should end. His pure spirit released from its earthen tenement on the 
11th of March, 1850, is, I trust, at rest, iu everlasting happiness. 
Well has he performed his part ; and by death his page of glory has 
been secured from any possible stain which a longer life might have 
made. 

t James Hughes lived to the great age of one hundred and ten years. 
My informant says : "I have known him myself to ride to Capt. Mc.'s 
store, after he was one hundred years old, to get a bottle of old Jamaika." 
This was bad business for a centenarian ; it was, however, the result of 
earlv habit. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 45 

He married Nancy Morgan,* the daughter of Major Spencer 
Morgan, who once lived in the neighborhood of Spring Hill, 
and who was a cousin of the lion-hearted old wagoner, Gen. 
Daniel Morgan. He removed to and settled iu Newberry. 
His first place of business, as a merchant, was at the place 
noAV known as McCreless' old store. He removed thence to 
Poplar Grove, where he did business for many years, and 
where he died. Of his "highly useful life" little remains 
which can now be collected. He was known for his virtues, 
and universally respected for the good which he did. He 
was the Senator from Newberry District in the State Legis- 
lature from 1808 to 1812. Elected over such men as Willliam 
Caldwell and Maj. John Hampton, soldiers of the 'Revolution, 
constitutes in itself the best evidence of his excellence and 
worth. It is, however, right to say, that in the midst of 
the poll one of his opponents, Maj. John Hampton, d^d^ 
Still Mr. McMorries' majority was such as to show, that 
the life of his talented opponent, who was thus removed, 
would not have altered the result. He declined a re-election 
in 1812, and spent the balance of his life in virtuous and 
useful retirement. I remember Mr. McMorries attended, and 
I think presided in the first anti-tariff meeting held in 
Newberry District. 

To it was submitted the memorial of the Charleston 
Chamber of Commerce prepared by their Committee, the 
Hon. Judge Richardson, Jeremiah Yates, Elias Horry, R. J. 
Turnbull, Christopher Jenkins, James Adger and James Fer- 
guson. The meeting was a small one, for the matter was 
then little understood, and the oppression was not then felt. 
He had, however, the merit to perceive the remote conse- 
quence of the beginning of legislation afterwards found to 
be too oppressive to be patiently borne. When this was, I 
do not remember, and cannot now ascertain. 

Mr. McMorries, many years before his death, became a 
member of the Baptist Church at Bausketts. 

John Boyce, the elder, I never saw; he, however, is better 
known by his sons, Robert Boyce, John Boyce, David, Boyce, 
Alexander Boyce, Ker Boyce, and James Boyce, than any 

* This lady, in '58, is still living in the town of Newberry, in excellent 
health. 



46 ANNALS or NEWBEKEY. 

sketch could make him. All of these are men who have 
made themseles kuoAvn ia Newberry, Laurens, Union, and 
Chaiieston. He lived ia that section called Mollyhorn. He 
was a merchant, and drove on a farm, and everything else 
from which money could be made. Often have I heard his 
son Ker relate the circumstance of starting a drove of cattle 
from his father's for Charleston, among which was an ill- 
natured steer, which cou.ld neither be led nor drove. The 
young men were afraid of him. The old man hooted at 
them for their cowardice, and charged upon the ox on his 
pony, but he found no flight in the animal ; then it became 
his turn to run, and putting his nag to the top of his 
speed, he pi'esented this scene : the steed in full pursuit, 
he himself leaning forward in his saddle, lashing with furi- 
ous energy his flying pony, his gray locks streaming in the 
wind. It looked to be a rather ticklish affair, and indeed 
so it proved, for the steer ran him so close, that in one of 
his lunges he stuck his horn under the saddle, and dragged 
it oif from under Mr. Boyce, but he escaped unhurt. His 
house was built with one upper or garret room, which 
opened with a door on the road. In this room, the old 
man Marshall, who had been tasting a drop of dram, was 
put to sleep, and in the night he awoke, and getting u[) 
opened the door, and walked out. AVhen he sti-uck the 
ground, he turned about, and with great wonder said, 
'•Johnny Buice, you make yer steps very high of this 
country." This gentleman, Marshall, was the father of James, 
George,* Samuel, Hugh and Joseph, the four last of whom 
are now, I believe, residents and highly respectable citizens 
of Abbeville, having removed from Newberry many years ago. 
James was a native of Ireland, and had some very peculiar 
notions and expressions. I recollect his once telling me 
when a candidate for the Legislature, "shew mo a lawweer 
wi hair in the palm of his hand, then I'll believe he is 
an honest man !" This he said to a lawyer, to a man 
with whom he v/as friendly, and for whom, I presume, he 
voted. 

Capt. Geo. McCreless, twice a member of the Hou je of 

* Georf:fe, since this was written, died. 



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Representatives from Newberry, was not one of the original 
settlers ; though he lived in the village and di&trict with 
short intervals of absence from 1803 to his death. An 
intimate personal knowledge justifies me in saying that no 
more firm and honest man ever lived. He commanded the 
Newberry Artillery Company, in the colebrated Camp Alston 
expedition in 1814. Just beyond his place, on the north 
bank of Patterson's Creek, lived James Gordon, a celebrated 
stone mason, and an equally celebrated Free Mason. Of 
him is reported the anecdote, that he was foreman of a jury 
who tried a man for assault and battery, and who, in their 
hearing, offered to i)lead guilty, but for some cause retracted, 
and went on trial ; and notwithstanding his confession, they 
returned a verdict of "not guilty." Judge Orimkie, in 
amazement said, "How could you return such a verdict, 
after his confession?" "Why," said the foreman, "ho has 
always been such a liar wa could not believe him." On 
the 14th of July, 1815, he was at his neighbor, Capt. Mc- 
Crele.ss' still house, on the south side of Patterson's Creek ; 
an immense fall of rain took jilace ; ho left the still house 
after night, but ucrcr nnr/itd hi.s house. It was supposed 
he attempted to walk a log across the creek, tottered off, 
and was drowneJ. His l)ody was found next day in the 
creek ! - 

Robert McKee lived midway between Indian and Duncan's 
Creek. His house still stands on the margin of the road, 
and when I ride by, I often look for the venerable form 
and gray hairs of my good Irish friend. But in a good 
old age of more than eighty years he has been gathered to 
his fathers; The "White Church, at the Long Lane, once 
called, I think, "King's Creek Church," "Gilder's Creek"; and 
that of more recent origin, "The Head Spring," constituted 
the places of worship to which the.se settlers, who were either 
Presbyterians or Seceders, resorted. 

John Boyd, of Ballamena, John J5oyd, (calhvl Johnny Buckles) 
and David Boyd, Sr., (the last two lived betwe?n Gilder's 
Creek and Bush River), were Covenanters. Like the Quaker.^, 
^hey set their faces against slavery; yet, if I remember right, 
John Boyd was the owner of slaves at his death. I know 
that David Boyd, Sr., the father of cur excelUut Ordintry, 



48 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY, 

Hugh K. Boyd, manumitted bis, but was compelled, from tbeir 
want of tbrift, to gatber tbem all borne, and take cbarge of 
tbem as if tbey were his slaves. David Boyd, Sr., was a 
Revolutionary soldier, and deserves a fuller notice than is 
here given. John Boyd's celebrated expression, when advised 
to settle a law suit, in which he was ultimately successful, 
is worth remembering. "I'll mak a spoon, or spile a born." 

Many others, Irish, were scattered through the Bush lliver, 
Little River, and Saluda settlements, such as the Kelly s, 
O'Neall's, McConnells and Nelson's. It is proposed in future 
numbers to speak more at large of Saiuuel Kelly and Hugh 
O'Neal], and bis father, William O'Neall, and therefore here 
I pass them over, and will close this number, already too 
long, l)y two Irish anecdotes. 

An Irishman and credulity are very often synonymous 
terms. Robert Nelson and bis sons settled between the 
Beaverdam and Saluda, near to the place where Esquire 
Walter Herbert now lives.* John was at work for AVm. 
Gould, (better known as old Bill Gould.) Ears of green corn 
(called in the upper country roasting ears, in the lower 
country, mutton corn,) boiled, were on the table at dinner. 
Jack was helped to an ear, and after eating off the grain, 
as he saw the others do, holding the cob in his band, he 
looked at Gould and said, "Billy what do ye do wi thr 
stecks? Do ye ate them, too?" "Ob yes I" was the reply, 
and Jack masticated the cob I 

Jo. McConnel, who afterwards went to Ohio, lived for a 
time between Beaverdam and Saluda. He lost his cow, and 
after many days of search, going down "a brae," he fancied 
he heard some one crying out, "'here is ycr cootr mon .'"' He 
said ho went "bis way" and when he came to the place 
"sure enough there was bis coow in the mire," and "there 
stud a green shouthered angel on a tus.sockwheu be stud 
up be sat down, and when be went he went by jirks !'' 

* Since dead. 



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40 



NO. 7. 

Many of the Friends came from Peansjlvania, some from 
Virginia, and a few from North Carolina. The other settlers, 
who belong neither to the Friends, the Germans, nor the 
Irish, were also emigrants from the States mentioned. Some 
few cara(3 from Maryland. 

Of these, William Turner was one of the earliest. He 
was a native of Maryland. The tract of land granted to 
him, on which ho probably settled, as early as 1751, was 
granted in 1752. It lies on the east side of Little River, 
near its mouth, at Long's bridge. 

In 1700, began that fresh outbreak of the Cherokees, which 
followed on the heels of Governor Lyttleton's treaty at Fort 
George, in 1759, and which preceded tho two expeditions^ 
successively commanded by Cols. Montgomery and Grant. 
The last was iu 1701, and has given the name of its coui^ 
uiauder to the war with the Indians. It has been usually 
called Grant's war ! But it was in 1700, that the Cherokees, 
burning with rago for the murder of the hostages at Fort 
George, and which hud been caused by the mui'der, by ouo 
of the Indian Chiefs, Occonostota, of the commander of the 
fort, Capt. Cottymore, and the wounding of Lieuts. Bell and 
Foster, rushed upon the defenceless settlements on Long 
Cane, Saluda and Little River. 

On that occasion, Turner's house was used as a place of 
defence for himself and his neighbors ; (a block house or 
station, as such places were called,) and was siirrounded by 
a stockade. Rising early in tho morning, he found a paper 
stuck in the fork of a peach tree, befort» his door, with a 
stone laid upon it. Opening and reading it, he was told, 
the Indians were on their way, and would soon be in that 
neighborhood. Whence came the information, he never knew ; 
hut it gave him such warning, that by closing the approahes 
through the stockade, and shutting every body within the 
house, tho danger, imminent and threatening as it was, was 
1 D 



50 ANNALS OF NKWBKBBT. 

escaped. For, as expected, the Indians came, sarroanded, 
and repeatedly fired upon the house ; but the height of the 
stockade compelled them to lire so high, that although their 
balls penetrated the house, yet thoy injured no one. The 
balls in the logs of the house, afterwards called Long's 
Old House^ remained as a testimony, until it was not many 
years since taken down. My friend who informed me of 
these particulars, told me they were shewn to him by the 
venerable widow of Wra. Tumor, (who I presume, died in 
1810,) and from whom he received the traditions now here 
embodied. 

On this place, lived until her death, within the last five 
years, the grand-daugher of the first settler, Mrs. Mary 
Gaskins, the wife of John Gaskins, now of Winter Seat,* 
Edgefield. Her mother, Mrs. Priscilla Long, was the daughter, 
and I think, youngest child of William Turner. She, and 
her daughter, Mrs. Gaskins, were both born on this place. 
The grand-mother, Mary Turner, the mother of Priscilla 
Long, and the daughter Mrs. Gaskins, then Mary Long, 
afterwards the wife of Henry Coate, and after his death, of 
John Gaskins, all lived on it. 

At Springfield now lives the grand-son of Samuel Kelly, 
who there settled in 1862. The dwelling is now within one 
hundred yards of the spot where he settled. The old house 
then built, and afterwards occupied by the family, until the 
death of the present resident's grand-mother, in 1820, (June) 
is still, although removed and repaired, standing in the yard, 
and the family of the grand-son now use the noble foun- 
tain of water from which Samuel Kelly and his family drank. 
Often here, from 1820, to October, 1848, was seen the rare 
spectacle of four generations of people living under the same 
roof. Can any other instances of similar kind be given in 
Newberry ? If so, glad shall I be to hear of them ; for I 
love that fixedness with which families linger around their 
ancestral homes. The very walnut, locust, and oak, at Spring- 
field, feel to me almost like relations, for beneath their 
shade have passed my grand-father, grand-mother, father, 
mother, uncles, and aunts, all of whom, with one very near 

* Since dend. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 51 

and dear exception.* liave gone, and tlieir jvlace "shall know 
them no more." 

My friend, F. R. Hi^fgin?, from whom much of what I 
have stated was gathered, tells rao that he thinks there is a 
grant on Enoree, (probably of the tract of land now owned 
by Richard Sondley,) to Pennington, older than that to 
William Turner, hereinbefore mentioned, and which I had 
thought was the oldest in the district, except some grants 
to the Germans. This agrees with what is said in Mills' 
Statistics, that John Duncan, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, 
but an emigrant from Penn.sylvania to South Carolina, settled 
on Duncan's Creek in 1752, and that Jacob Pennington, 
living on Enoree. ten miles below, was his nearest neighbor. 
Assuming this to bo true, I think it may be considered 
as pretty certain that the parts of Newberry first occupied 
and settled by the white man, were as follows : the Dutch 
Fork in 1745; the east sid(^ of Little River, near its mouth, 
(Turner's settlement,) in 1751 : the Canebrake. on Enoree, 
(Pennington's grant,) 1751, or possibly oarlii r ; and Duncan's 
Creek, (Duncan's settlement,) in 1752. 

The fort called Pennington's, which was, I i)resume, erected 
as a protection against the Indians in 17<')(). is at Colonel 
Duckett's, on Indian Creek ; the remains may, I have been 
told, still be traced. This place was probably first settled 
by Pennington ; but it has been, for the last fifty or sixty 
years in the possession of one family, Thomas Duckett, his 
son, Jacob Duckett, and his son, Colonel J. W. Duckett, 
and through all that time has been remai'kable for the care 
and thrift with which it has been managed. 

It is difficult to so classify the remaining settlers of New- 
berry, who were neither Germans, Friends, nor Irish, as to 
speak of them in a body. It will, however, be attempted 
to give a sort of bird's-eye view of the other parts of 
Newberry and its inhabitants, running down from its earliest 
periods to those within the memory of man. in its legal 
sense, to wit : within the last twenty years. 

In the Enoree and Duncan's Creek settlements, including 
under this general head the settlements on Indian, Gilder's, 



* Since writing this, in October, 1850, my mother, to whom it alludes, 
died. 



52 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and King's Creeks, lived the Lyles, Kellys, Malones, Wadling- 
tons, Gordons, Kiitherfords, Calmes, Maybins, Sims, Caldwells, 
Hendersons, Kenners, Littletons, Vessels, Valentines. Flanagans, 
Hendricks, Hills, Odells, Duncans, Ducketts, Eoberts, Whit- 
mires, Herndons, Parks, Dugans, Caseys, Bonds, Starkes,* 
Tinneys, Speakes, Hustons, Lindseys, Fords, Grastys, Cham- 
bers, Crenshaws, Finches, Shells, Eppes, Hattons, Browns, 
Murrays, Wells, Kings, Powells, Williams. Gillams. 

Of these, as a class, I can say little, Their habits presented 
nothing peculiar. Some were Baptist.-, some Presbyterians; 
and at u time subsequent to the Ptevolution, many became 
Methodists. In this entire section the inhabitants were whigs. 

Colonel James Lyles was an inhabitant of the Fork, 
between Enoree and Tiger. He was, I have no doubt, in 
General Williamson's expedition against the Indians, in 1770, 
although in the memoir of Maj. McJunkin, published in the 
Magnolia, the Col. Lyles engaged in that duty is called 
John, yet I think it is pretty clear that Col. James Lyles 
was thereby intended. He was also in the affair at Hanging 
liock, 7th August, 1780. I presume he was at Blackstocks, 
as he was part of Sumpter's command. Whether he was at 
King's Mountain in October, 'SO ; at the Cowpens in Januar^^, 
1781, and at the seige of Ninety-Six, I have no means of 
knowing. He returned to his family after the capture of 
Fort Granby on the 14th of May, 1781, and died leaving 

* Thomas Starke was a revolutionary soldier. He wa.s remarkable for 
dry, and what would be now called, coarse htimor ; but an instance of 
that kind may give a better idea of the man, of the state of society, than 
anything else which I could give. John Speake, Esq., once Sheriff of 
Newberry, was thought by some, and especially by ^Ir. Starke, to be a 
little too fond of show. Dining with him on some occasion, when there 
were persons present, before whom Mr. Speake desired to show to the 
best advantage. Coffee was about to be served, and Starke was asked if 
he would take some ? "Give it to me, Jacky, in a tin, may be I might 
break the vessel,'' was the reply. Old Tom Starke, as he was called, 
drank to great excess. He never visited Newberry Court Hoiise or 
Latham's store (Springfield) without getting drunk, and being left on 
the ground. About 1805 or 180G, he visited Newberry, bought a pound 
of powder ; it was wrapped up in paper, and in his pocket ; he got 
drunk; lay down before the fireplace, at night, in the tavern ; his clothes 
took fire, the powder exploded ; he was awfully burned, and in a few 
days died. Thus from drunkenness perished a revolutionary soldier. 



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a family of three daughters, one of whom, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Maybin, the wife of Col. Benjamin Maybin, survives"* 

James Kelly was a lieutenant in the Revolution, and served 
through the whole war. His brother Edmund, was a soldier: 
he died within the last seven or eight years at the great 
age of more than an hundred vears. . 

Anthony Parks was one of the first settlers of Newberry 
District. He is mentioned in a note to Ramsay's History of 
South Carolina, .1 vol. p. 208, as having traveled in 1758, 
a few hundred miles among the Indians to the west of the 
Alleghany mountains. His half brother. Col. Thomas Dugan. 
lived just at the confluence of Gilders and Indian Creek. 
He was a soldier in the Revolution; he was I think, one 
of the gallant men who triumphed at King's Mountain. 
Two of his brothers, with Anderson, and one of the Fords, 
wei'e hewn to pieces in the Revolution by the Turners, as a 
retaliatory act of vengeance for the death of their brother, 
who had been slain by a party of whigs. He commanded, 
after the organization of the militia, the Enoree regiment. 
He lived to be an old man, and raised a large family; all 
of whom, as well as himself, have paid the great debt of 
nature. 

In this section of the district was one of the earliest 
classical schools in the upper part of the State. To the 
Methodists, and I see from Ramsay's History of South 
Carolina, to the Rev. Mr. Dougherty, ('called in .it Dorothy) 
we are indebted mainly for that fine institution of learning, 
the Mount Bethel Academy. Elisha Hammond, the father 
of Gov. Hammond, and Josiah P. Smith were its principal 
teachers. It gave to the country such men as Judge Cren- 
shaw, his brothers, Dr. Crenshaw and Walter Crenshaw, 
Chancellor Harper, John Caldwell, Esq., Dr. George W. 
Glenn, John R. Golding, Gov. Richard J. Manning, John 
G. Brown, Dr. Thomas Smith, o£ Society Hill, N. R. Eaves, 
of Chester, and Thomas Glover, of Orangeburg. Chancellor 
Caldwell owed a sort of divided allegiance to the Newberry 
Academy and that at Mount Bethel. For at both places he 

* A fuller account of this gentleman, (Col. Lyles,) is given subse- 
<iuently. 



f)4 ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 

received parts of bis academical education. The Mount Bethel 
Academy furnished the first students and graduates of the 
South Carolina College. 

In connection with this part of the subject, I may be par- 
doned for recalling to the memory of the people of Newberry, 
the names of two of the founders and patrons of the Academy, 
Charles Crenshaw and Edward Finch. Both of the names 
are extinct in Newberry; a grand-son of the latter, is how'ever, 
still in the immediate neighborhood of his ancestral home. 

Charles Crenshaw, (Mr. Grainger, as he was most generally 
called,) lived and died at Long Lane. From a ver}'- early 
day, until 1812, he was the Tax Collector of Newberry. No 
more obliging and correct public officer lived. His sons, Archy 
Crenshaw, Dr. Abner Crenshaw, Judge Anderson Crenshaw, 
Walter and Willis Ci'enshaw, Esqs., are now too well remem- 
bered in Newberry, to make any fiirther mention of his claims 
to respect necessary. 

Of his neighbor, Edward Finch, I know little. He was a 
Methodist, and a stern, uncompromising Christian. He was a 
magistrate; many a blasphemer was made to pay a shilling 
for each profane oath uttered in his presence. The old/ law, 
under which he acted so well for the assertion of good morals, 
still exists, and if it was now and then enforced by our 
worthy magistrates, it would go far to dri%e out the odious 
and inexcusable s!n of taking the name of God ia vain. 

His .son, Dr. Ivy Finch, was the friend and companion of 
many who now survive. Cut ofP in the morning of his life, 
in an instant of time, he was not permitted to unfold those 
powers which promised so much for his country, himself and 
his friends. He left Columbia in December, ISlo, in company 
with a large party of friends. He understock to drive a horse, 
the property of his friend. Judge Crenshaw; his vicious prop- 
erties were well known. At the fork of the roads, just beyond 
Butcher town, where the road to McGowen's ferry, now the 
Broad River bridge, turns off from the road to Winnsboro', 
the horse took fright, and ran away. In his flight he carried 
his sulky to the left of the road, over the high stumps of 
some hickory saplings, and thus threw him out of the sulky; 
in falling, he was caught by his leg between the shaft and 
foot board, and ia that position, the left side of his head was 



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brought in contact with the Nvheel, and he thus probably 
received his death wound. He was, however, carried in that 
position more than an hundred yards, when his head struck 
against the sharp knob of a stump in the road, which seemed 
to have followed the sutor of the skull all around, dividing it 
perfectly. Just at this place, where the road from Mr. Guign- 
ard's, afterwards Judge Gantt's house, comes into the road 
above described, the horse kicked loose from the sulky, and 
left the lifeless body of Dr. Ivy Finch I Alas ! alas ! how 
true is it, that in the midst of life we are in the midst of 
death! Of the nine persons, who were in the company, and 
who surrounded his dead bodv. four* survive ! 



No. 7 Continued. 

The Baptist settlement extended from the borders of the 
Enoree and Duncan's Creek settlemetJ:s, (through which wo 
have passed,) southwest towards Saluda. It Avas mainly located 
on Bush River and Little Eiver. It extended on Bush River 
from the line traced in No. 5 as the northwest boundary of 
Friends to the old Ninety-Six road, the western line of the 
district; through it were scattered many Presbyterians, and 
after the Revolution many Methodists. In it were to be found 
the Grays, Coles, Crows, McCxaws, Beltons, Coats, Williams, . 
Reeders, Pitts, Mangums, ) Davis, Neals, McAdams, Ritchies, 
Thomas, Dalrymples, Griffins, Floyds, Clelands, Davenports, 
Leavells, Newmans, Pages. Carwiles, Jones, Burtons, Gibsons, 
Crosswhite, Eastlands, Petersons, Speers, Stewarts, Stevens, 
Kellys, Goggans, and Spearmans. 

The settlement occupying the fork between Little River and 

* Now only cue. 



50 ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 

Saluda, and covering Mudlick Mill and Page's Creek, consti- 
tuting the southwest portion of the district, was composed of 
the Caldwells, Williams , Gillams, Dysons, Cunninghams, Sat- 
terwhites, Grisbys, Neelys, Chappells, Wells, Hills, Moons, 
Paynes, Rudds, Smiths, Watkins, Burgess, Boazmans, Parlors, 
Wallaces, Turners, Proctors, Swift, Phillips, Jamieson, Adams, 
Vaughan, Barlow, Younghusband, Moores, Ritchies, Goodmans, 
Farrows, Walker, Goldings, Creswells, Browns, and Halls. 

The Baptist settlement anciently had but one place of meet- 
ing. Bush River; out of that have arisen three others. Cross 
Roads, Mount Zion, and Mount Olive. I hope to be able in 
some future number to give a full account of it, and of many 
of its leading inhabitants. For the present I defer it, in the 
hope of being permitted to consult, and glean much from the 
records of the old Bush River Baptist Church. 

In connection, however, with some of the family names 
mentioned, in the limits of the Baptist settlement, I must relate 
an incident, which though small, as the tribute of ship money 
demanded of John Hampden and other martyrs of liberty in 
the time of Charles I., is remarkable, as giving rise to one 
of the guards of liberty constantly observed now in our couits 
I mean the Act of December, 1811, '"to prevent any citizens 
of this State from being sent to goal until he be heard by 
himself or counsel."" — Acts of 1811, page 32. At October 
term, 1807, (I speak without reference to the records,) Judge 
Grimke presided; Major Benjamin Long was Sheriff, acting 
under a pro tem. appointment in the place of P. B. Waters, 
(deceased;) David Slovens, David Peterson and Gabriel McCoole 
v.'ere constables in charge of the doors of tlie courthouse. 
They were reported by the Sheriff as absent from their posts, 
Avithout leave; the Judge, without any enquiry, ordered them 
to goal. This constituted one of the articles of impeachment 
prepared in 1810 against the venerable Judge; but the whole 
impeachment, for the want of a constitutional majority was 
refused to be presented by the House of Representatives in 
1811. The Act of 1811 was passed at the same session to 
prevent a similar exercise of arbitrary power. For in that 
case if the Judge? had heard the excuses of the respectable 
men who then condescended to fill the office of constable, he 
never would have imprisoned them. The answer of one of 



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them to one of the committee, who prepared the articles 
of impeachment, was mentioned by Mr. Thomas Hunt, the 
chairman of the committee, in the debate on the articles of 
impeachment in 1811, as an instance of a freeman's indigna- 
tion, at a false imprisonment: "I had the disgrace," said he, 
"of looking through the grates of Newberry gaol." 

The settlement, in the fork, between Little River and 
Saluda, furnished thx-ee of the members of the first Provincial 
Congress, John Caldwell, John Satterwhite and James AVilliams; 
two of these, Caldwell and Williams, were distinguished officers 
in the Revolution, and sealed their devotion of liberty with 
their blood. It furnished also many other noble soldiers of 
liberty; among them will be found Maj. Robert Gillam, Robert 
Gilliam, Jr., Joseph Goodman, John Wallace, William and 
James Caldwell. In it too lived Robert Cunningham, a 
general in the British army. His residence was Peach Hill. 
He was mistaken in his duty; but never have I heard it 
alleged or supposed that he did any act which reflected on 
his character as a man or an officer. 

I am promised materials, which I hope will enable me in 
a subsequent number to give biographical sketches of John, 
William and James Caldwell, of the two Robert Gillams, 
father and son, and of the wife of the latter, the venerable 
lady, Mi's. Elizabeth Gillam, of Joseph Goodman, and of John 
Satterwhite, the elder. I shall avail myself speedily in some 
number of the opportunity to republish a memoir of Col. 
James Williams. I,- too, would gladly, if I could avail myself 
of the materials, do justice to General Cunningham, by giving 
some account of him. I ho})e, too, to be able to do some 
sort of justice to the memory of Dr. Jacob Roberts Brown. 
For the present, I confine myself to sketches brief, as may 
be expected from general knowledge and tradition, of two of 
the inhabitants who have passed away. 

The name Youughusband, will be seen as mentioned among 
the inhabitants. He came into the settlement subsequent to 
the Revolution. Many, I have no doubt, never heard of him. 
He lived on the place where Mr. John Barlow afterwards 
lived, and which possibly, after his death, belonged to Edward 
Pitts. He had been an English sea captain. He undertook 
to live like an old English Baron, in his castle. His log 



OO ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

house was furnished Avith loop-holes; he had a good stand of 
arms. His gate was an hundred yards or more from his 
house; as soon as any one entered it, his spy glass was to 
his eye; if he did not like his ap})earance, his man Dick was 
ordered to warn him to leave. He had conceived a great 
dislike to Claiborn Goodman; he had more than once warned 
him not to walk through his lields Discovering him on some 
occasion inside of his gate, he sallied ont upon him, with his 
negroes, seized him, and threw him down to tie him. Good- 
man had rode to the gate, and had his spurs on; when 
thrown, he used them upon Younghusband's man Dick, who 
was holding him dovv'n, with such good effect, that he sprang 
from him. Younghusband said to him "Sirrah, how" dare you 
let the rascal go":'"' "Lord, Massa, he .spur me?" was poor 
Dick's reply. But notwithstanding the spurs, and a gallant 
resistance, Younghusband and his ^^iiagurs'' tied Goodman, 
and left him tied, to get some means of taking him to prison. 
While they were gone, he extricated one hand, got his knife, 
and cut his cords into fragments, and was ^'non esf^ when 
his captors returned. What became of Younghusband I do 
not certainly know. I have been told he died at the place of 
which I have spoken. 

The name Moon, mentioned above, is also subsequent to 
the Revolution. Dr. M. W. Moon lived long and to much 
good purpose, in the fork between Little and Saluda Rivers. 
He was a physician of much eminence and practice. He was 
an able and acceptable Methodist preacher. His estimable son, 
Dr. Peter Moon is all of his immediate family who remain 
in the settlement. 

For many years after the Revolution, this settlement was 
foremost for intelligence, patriotism and moral worth. That 
it has ceased to be as prominent, as it once was is deeply to 
be regretted. It is now one of the richest sections of the 
district, and yet judging from some recent indications, I fear 
there is not so much liberality, as once characterized it. I 
trust, however, that this reproach, (if it be true.) will not 
long characterize it, especially when I remember there is the 
home of so much intelligence, worth and liberality as belong 
to Dr. Peter Moon. 

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Waters" ferry, which, before 1804, might be considered the 
western boundary of the German setth^ment on the river, 
thence turning north along the Charleston road to the Irish 
settle^ient and thence along it to the Quaker settlement, and 
skirting its border of the mouth of Bush River, and following 
its southwestern border to the Ba})tist settlement on Little 
and Bush Rivers, we shall iind the Turners, Longs, Edwards, 
Stevens, Thomas, Taylors, Coxes, Clarys, Darnells, Duns. Alli- 
sons, Caradines, Hatchers, Nelsons, Higgins, Martins. Kileys. 
Worthingtons, Wests, Blacks. Arnolds. Cothrans, Larks, Mills, 
Conwills, Goulds, Kings, Jones, Lesters, Musgi-oves, Bemounts, 
Morgans^ Dennis, Johnsons, Palmers, Ganters, Waters, Bates, 
Rials, Spillers, Morris, Langfords. Calks, Lindseys, Bielers, 
Waits, Mannings, Banks. Hares, Richardsons. Presnells, Cain, 
Baldres. 

I have already spoken of William Turner. I may hereafter 
have occasion, in connection with revolutionary incidents, to 
speak of his sons, Dick and Ned, two of Cunningham's well 
tried "ft^'ayes" and two well known torie«. I have lately heard, 
with astonishment, that Ned Turner is still alive in Florida. 
If so, he must be vei-ging on to 100. Wonderful indeed will 
it be, after his many hair breadth escapes in and since the 
Revolution, if God should spare him to be a centenarian. 

William Stevens, John Edwards and Benjamin Long were 
sons in-laAV of W^illiam Turner. The two first I never saw. 
David and Edward Stevens, two of our worthy and respectable 
citizens are his sons. Judging of the father, by them, we 
shall have no further occasion for description or remark. The 
whole family of Edwards is extinct in Newberry; the children 
of Edward Edwards, a son of John Edwards, returned, I 
think, after his death, to Virginia. John S. Edwards, a 
grandson, removed to and died in Pickens. 

Maj. Benjamin Long lived at Turner's place, (ever since my 
recollection, called Long's bridge.) He married Priscilla, the 
youngest daughter. She had been twice previously married,, 
first to James Cheney, second to Isaac King. She had chil- 
dren by neither of these marriages. Beuj. Long was a native 
of Union. In the battle of the Cowpens, he belonged ta 
Brandon's regiment, and was sabred by one of Tarleton's 
dragoons in the beginning of the fight. Two of the wounds 



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thus received left large scars on his face. He was major of 
the Saluda battalion of the upper militia regiment in Newberry 
District, and for a short time Sheriff. He died in 18 10. Of 
his children, numerous as they w^ere, few survived him. Of 
those who did survive him, none now remains. One of his 
grandsons, Mr. John Coate, resides at the town of Newberry. 
Great and sad have been the mortality and changes among 
the families above given. The neighbors, James Thomas, 
Benjamin Taylor, Jacob Crosswhite and Thomas Eastland are 
remembered, as living on or near Little River. Where are 
their families ? Gone, scattered, removed or dead ! 

Cornelius Cox, the maternal grand-father of my friend F. 
B. Higgins, Esq., left four sons, George, James, John, William. 
He, and they after him, lived on the place just below Higgins' 
ferry on Saluda. They are all no more. The name is now 
unknown in that section of the district. George Cox grave 
rise to the saying '"like Cox's snake and cat." When a boy, 
carrying a cat in his arms, just as he was in the act of cross- 
ing a fence, he discovered a snake in its coil, and threw the 
cat upon it, exclaiming, ''devil to devil." 

William Cox must have been a singular man from some of 
his queer remarks which I have often heard repeated. He 
was observed in a very dry time ploughing closely a very 
grassy piece of corn; the observer said to him: '"Bill you will 
kill your corn!" '"Well," he said, ''I want it to die an honorable 
death !" On a cool day in October, some one remarked in 
his hearing, there would be frost the succeeding night; he 
said, "No, I was to-day in the Saluda bottom, and the kuckle- 
burs are not ripe yet; there Avill be no frost till they are 
ripe." His death was most probably occasioned by an injury 
received by him, in an affray between him, John Turner, Jr., 
and James Coate, (son of big John.) Coate fled the coimtry; 
John Turner, Jr., was convicted of the assault with the intent 
to kill and murder, and was sentenced at March Term, 1807, 
liy Judge Trezevant to stand two hours in the pillory, and 
underwent the punishment. Had it not been for covering him 
with an ximbrella, and the siipports of his friends in holding 
him up, he must have died in the pillory ! 

A little lower down the river, lived Col. Daniel Clary. He 
was a tory Colonel in the Revolution; but notwithstanding this 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 61 

great error, few men were more beloved. At the battle of 
Miisgrove's Mills, on Enoree, in which Col. Williams, (perhaps 
Col. Shelby,) defeated Col. Innis, Clary was present as a 
British Colonel commanding the militia; and in the melee of 
defeat, his horse was seized at the same moment by the cheeks 
of the bridle by two whig soldiers. He escaped captivity, by 
exclaiming "damn you, don't you know your own officers." 
After the peace, he performed well all the duties of a good 
citizen, and was peacefully gathered to his fathers, leaving a 
respectable family, all of whom are gone, with the exception 
of a grandson, Col. Clary, now living in Edgefield, and a 
great grand-daughter. 

In their immediate vicinity, lived John AVorthington, qviiet. 
moral, inoffensive and industrious; few men deserved more as 
a parent and a neighbor. From 1804 to 1808, he far exceeded 
any man I knew, in the quantity of cotton which he raised 
in proportion to the number of hands he employed. Wealth 
flowed in upon him apace, and at his death, probably in 1826 
or 1827, he still had, after providing for his large family, 
who had previously married, a very considerable estate. Where 
are now his sons, or their descendants? All are gone, so 
far as my knowledge extends, with the exception of one 
grand son, Dr. Worthington. Two of his daughters, Mrs. 
Samuel Chapman and Mrs. Frank Spearman, survive; another, 
his eldest daughter, Mrs. Hunter, is long since dead, but is 
represented by several descendants. The only survivor of the 
settlers in this settlement, prior to 1804, is Hezekiah Eiley,* 
(if he indeed be still spared.) for last October, at Anderson, 
I saw him beyond four- score, stretched upon the bed, which 
I feared was to be his bed of death. An honest, good, but 
impatient man, he has passed beyond the ordinary limit of 
life, and has seen his numerous progeny go down to the 

* When I speak of Mr. Eiley as the only survivor of this settlement, I 
mean the Saluda settlement proper. For of the Beaverdam settlement, 
Esquire Walter Herbert still remams. He has passed his three-score and 
ten, and has filled with credit to himself, and advantage to his country, 
the offices of captain in the militia, a Magistrate and Eepresentative in 
the Legislature. He is now adorning an old age of usefuluess, by pre- 
senting an example of total abstinence from all which can intoxicate. 
Both have died since this was written. 



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<^riivo. with one solitary oxcoptioii. and he. I fear, is far from 
being any comfort to his aged jiarent. 

Passing beyond the Beaverdam. and standing on the rocky 
hills, between Bnsh KivcM- and Salxida, I ask. as I look aroimd, 
where are the mimerons families of the Gonlds, Conwills and 
Mills? All are gone, with the exception of Benj. Conwill, son 
of old Benjamin, and Mrs. Dicy Myers, daughter of Joe Con- 
will. Old Bill Goitld lived to the left of the road leading to 
Hewitt's ferry within two or three luuidred yards of Esquire 
Walter Herbert's jn-esent residence, and w^ithin one hundred 
yards of the old ford on the Beaverdam Creek.* He lived to 
a great age, probably beyond ninety. He was the leading 
man among the Goulds, Conwills, Blacks, Kings and Wests. 
He loved mischief like a feast, and hence anything which 
occurred to terrify an ignorant people, generally had its origin 
with him. The ignorance around him may be judged of by 
this fact. Many of the young men of the families named 
were at different times his croppers. If he offered a third of 
his cro]) for compensation, it was generally refused as too 
little; while a fourth would be greedily accepted, as being 
more. His brother Harry was almost idiotic. He was always 
to be seen with his rifle, shot bag, and ])ig coat, and graced 
with leggins and green garters ! 

Joe Conwill lived to the left of the road, leading from 
O'Neall's, now Bobo's mill, on Bush River by the crab 
orchard to Parkin's ford, (now Crofts') on Saluda. His widow 
Sophia Conwill, who at an age of more than fourscore, h as, 
within a few years died, was too good and useful a woman to 
be forgotten. Her husband has been dead more than thirty 
years. He was a pale, sickly looking man; but possessed of 
much activity, spirit and firmness. His unhealthy appearance 
arose, as it was said, from being bitten by a mad dog. He 
was just married to her, of whom I have spoken as his widow, 
Sophia Goodwyn. Hunting racoons, (as was then the practice,) 
his dog treed one, while the tree, on which the coon had 
taken refuge was falling under the axes of his companions, 

* Here was the first Methodist meeting house in the Beaverdam and 
Saluda settlement, and possibly in the district. The first preacher there 
(located perhaps) was Daniel Earp, (pronounced Harp. I think he 
removed to and died iu Pendleton District before its division. 



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lie held his dog, which, struggling to get away, bit him. The 
next day, the dog was found to be mad. In a few days, 
Conwill and his young wife went to the Pine Hoiise, Edge- 
tield, to obtain the services of Dr. Swearingen, in the cure of 
the former. Swearingen, whose reputation, as possessing the 
secret of curing hydrophobia, extended far and wide, undertook 
the case, and after a few day's prescription, having as he 
supposed, sufficiently guarded, by his medicine, against a 
paroxysm, left home for a few hours, leaving Conwill at large. 
In a short time, he was discovered to be exhibiting the usual 
appearances of hydrophobia. He was fortunately in the yard; 
the women took refiige in the house, and barred the door; he 
made repeated attempts to break in: at last, he took the road 
towards Augusta, at a dog trot; tongue protruding from his 
mouth, and the saliva dripping from it. In a short time. 
Swearingen returned home; being told what had occurred, he 
pursued Conwill on horseback. When he overtook him, he 
leaped off his horse, cut his bridle reins from his bridle; tied 
Conwill therewith, drove him home l:)efore him, mid cured him. 
He lived I presume, at least thirty years afterwards; but he 
always affirmed, that at the full and change of the moon, he 
felt the effect of the bite ! What has become of Swearingen's 
remedy':' Did it die with him':* Has he not a son still living 
near the Pine House? 

John West, the father of the Wests, who lived on the 
Beaverdam, lived beyond an hundred years. When he said 
he was an hundred, or close in its neighborhood, he was 
found in the woods hunting squirrels, and said he could then 
see to shoot a riflo ■ -^ veil as he ever did. He died after 
1804. 



No. 7 Concluded. 

John Musgrove, (Col. Musgrove, as he, as well as his 
l^rother Edward, was called,) lived on Saluda. Of him, I have 
no personal knowledge, nor do I know the precise spot where 
he lived. At his place, the Regulators and Scofelites, in 17G4, 



04 ANNALS Or NEWBERRY. 

met in battle array; happily, however, no actual battle occurred; 
flags were exchanged, and they agreed to separate, and petition 
the Governor to redress their grievances. This was done, and 
the result was, that after the great delay of five years, the 
Circuit Court Act of 1709 was passed. This quieted all 
domestic dissension by bringing justice home to the people. 
Although no actual battle was fought between the Regulators 
and Scof elites, yet I have always luiderstood there was some 
firing. The following humorous anecdote shows that must 
have been the case. A rather windy gentleman, who lived on 
the Beaverdam, joined the Regulators, and talked a great 
deal about the fighting he would do. As the parties were 
nearing one another, guns were fired; he took the alarm, fled, 
and wearing a long tailed coat, with a lead inkstand in the 
skirt pocket, as he jumped a gully, it flew up and struck 
him on the back part of the head; he fell forward, exclaiming 
"I am shot ! I am a dead man ! quarters, gentlemen ! quarters, 
gentlemen !" 

The man Scofel, who was made a colonel by Lord Charles 
Greville Montague, the Governor of the Province, and is called 
Scoveil, in Ramsay's History, must have been a great scoun- 
drel, fit only to command the thieves and disorderly persons 
with whom, as might be expected, the upper country, without 
any court higher than Charleston abounded, and to suppress 
whom the Regulation was instituted by Thomas Woodward, 
Joseph Kirkland and Barnaby Pope. For I have often heard 
it related by one, (whose memory I never found at fault,) that 
Scofel, after the Circuit Court Act went into operation, was 
tried at Ninety-Six for stealing chickens. The proof was, that 
there were 38 chickens stolen; Scofel swore "it was a dom'd 
lie, there were only sax and thirty, for I eat the guzzards." 

John Musgrove, from whom 1 li" ve wandered off to give 
some particulars attending the Regulation, or growing out of 
it, was a tory colonel in the Revolution; the only knowa act 
of his command was the encampment of his forces on the 
Knoll, beyond the saw mill, at Bobo's mill, on Bush River, 
and his precipitate flight thence, on hearing a false report, 
that the whigs, under Casey, were about attacking him. He 
must have been a man of considerable substance. For, many 
years after the Revolution, a larsfe number of horses called 



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"heretics" were wild in the Stone Hills, and were said tp j-,^ 
the issue of his stock turned loose in the range. 

Passing for a moment out of the immediate range of C0)ii^j.y 
through which we have been sweeping, and sliding withii (jj„ 
bounds assigned in No. 5 for the Quaker settlement, we ^^pj/, 
with the only relics of the Dunkers or Dunkards, within r^y 
knowledge, in this State. Their settlement was mainly or the 
Palmetto Branch, north of Bush River. Of this persuasion 
were originally the Chapmans, Summers, Lynches. Prathers 
and Martins. David Martin, the father of the lamily here 
named, lived on Saluda, near Hewitt's ferry. Among these 
Dunkers, and the Quakers, without any definite participation 
in either, lived the Elmores, Mills, Hawkins, Brooks, Atkins, 
McKinseys, Larges, Gillilands, Aberng^hys, Coates, Downs, 
HilburnsJ Thweatts, Sheppards, Ramages, Nances, Gillams, 
Coopers, Gates, Myers, Juliep'-, Rileys, Elsmores, Barretts, 
Curetons, Harps, Hr.y. 

The Dunkers are baptized by immersion: they kneel in the 
water, and are thus plimged three times under it; they neither 
shave their heads or beards. Most of the leading Dunkers, in 
the settlement to which I have alluded, became Universalists, 
but not to the extent now held by that body of Christians. 
Many retained the long flowing beard. Often have I seen the 
patriarch of that settlement, the good old man, Joseph Sum- 
mers, with his white beard, extending to and resting on his 
breast. He was a native of Maryland. He introduced the 
wheat called the Yellow Lammas, by bringing, as much as he 
could, in a stocking leg, from that State. It was perfectly 
white, when it was first brought. In a few years it became 
yellow, and was much valued. I fear in the many changes 
we have undergone, this valuable variety of wheat has been 
entirely lost. 

Mt venerable friend, Giles Chapman, the great i)reacher of 
what was called Universalism, luitil Avithin the last twenty 
years, certainly, always preached the Dunker faith. For I see 
'"they deny the eternity of future punishment"; and such 
unquestionably was always his teaching. He, like his father- 
in-law, Joseph Summers, wore his beard. 

Giles Chapman was a native of Virginia; he was born in 
1748; his father, on immigrating to this State, first locatetl 
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ANNALS OF NEWBEBK> . 

ielf for a season, at the place of our town. Giles Chap- 
man ^ ^^ . '■ 
-r was a saddler by trade. He married a daug^hter of 
Jose -^ _ . „ ° „ 

ph Summers. From my earliest recollection, 1799 or 1800, 

li lived at the place where his worthy son, Samuel Chapman, 
ll.^q., now lives, and there he lived until his death, in, I 
preibnme, 1819. 

He began to preach in 1782. Often have I heard his dis- 
courses. He was beyond all doubt an eloquent and a gifted 
preacher; ^nd seemed to me to be inspired with a full portion 
of that holy and divine spirit, which taught "God is Love/' 
His education and means of information were limited, yet his 
mighty Master spake by him, as he did by the fishermen "in 
words that burn, auL^ thoughts which breath.'' His ministry 
was much followed, aud in recurring to his spotless life and 
conversation, his continual zeal to do good, his kind and 
benevolent intercourse with nien and the meek humility with 
v/hich he bore the railing of the sects of Christians, who dif- 
fered in opinion with him, I have never entertained a doubt, 
that whether right or wrong, in abstract matters of faith and 
theology, he was indeed a disciple of Him icJio came into fJte 
world to save sinners. 

I can see him ??or' as plainly in my mind's eye, as I have 
seen him hundreds of times, as well in all the various pursuits 
and intercourse of life as in the pulpit; and yet I find it 
difficiilt to give of him a life-like description. He was rather 
above the ordinary size; grey hair and beard, not very long, 
but worn; his dress very much that of Friends: a face of the 
most placid and benevolent ex])ression. 

He married more persons than any other clergyman; he 
never would have more than $1 for his service; "that was as 
much as any woman was worth," was his laughing reply to 
the question "how much do you charge?" This was his jest. 
For no man ever appreciated more highly woman, good virtu- 
i ous, suffering, feeble woman, than he did. and none had ever 
rmore cause to value her; for certainly none better as wife 
and mother was to be found than his '"ain gude wife." 

As a husband, father, master, neighbor and friend, none vfin-: 
ever more justly beloved than Uncle Giles, as he was famil- 
iarly called by the country all around him. 

The old Diinker meetinfj house stood near, and I think in 



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the graveyard just at the edge of the Charleston road, a little 
north of east from Esquire Samuel Chapman's residence. 

Recurring to the more immediate settlements, or rather 
sections of the district from which I passed to indulge myself 
in some recollections of the Dunker settlement, and to pay a 
just tribute to old friends and neighbors, I will, without further 
l)articularizing, say that until 1804, there were many of the 
inhabitants of the Stone Hills who belong to that class called 
the pioneers of civilization, and who live more by hunting and 
fishing than work. Of these, I remember very well the Rialls 
who, between 1800 and 1804, removed to the far West. 
Among them occurred a swap of wives. One fancied the wife 
of his neighbor, and proposed an exchange; it was agreed to. 
and executed on the delivery of a jug of rum as boot. 

Many will yet remember John and Thomas Downs: they 
were both hunters and jishennen. John was also, however, a 
hard-working man. but Tommy never loved either ''the warm 
side or cold side of a corn field." Of him was told the story, 
that as soon as blackberries were ripe, he skinned with the 
bark entire, except on one side, two hickory saplings, and 
casing his legs in the bark thus obtained, he entered the briar 
patches for his living, exclaiming "'I would not give thank-ye. 
for meat and bread." 

It must not, however, be supposed, that the schoolmaster X 
was not in the south side of Newberry District. Three very 
good primary schools were on Bush River; James Howe, 
whose remains are in Chapman's graveyard, taught south of 
Bush River, for many years, on the plantation where Abijah 
O'Neall once lived, between the old brick house and Thomas 
Lake's, and in sight of the road leading to Mendenhall's mill. 
This gentleman was a relation of General and Admiral Lord 
Howe; he was a Londoner; he left England in consequence 
of some incidents attending his wife's death, which iitterly 
disgusted him, and made him a recluse and a hermit. His 
penmanship I have never seen excelled. Under his direction 
the writer of this sketch; and many others, received the first 
impulses of that learning, which has inade him and them, 
whatever he or they ever has or have been. No better, kind- 
hearted pedagogue ever ruled with or without ''''mi ickory^'' the 
youths of Rush River. Another school north of the river was 



68 ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 

headed by Richard Clegg, also an Englishman, who wrote a 
o-ood hand, and understood arithmetic well; but he loved 
liquor, and at home or in his school, he was like each a)id 
all of its votaries, tyrant. He removed and died in Ohio. 
The third school was taught bj' John B. Mitchel, a soldier of 
the Revolution, who being captured and made a prisoner by 
the British, probably in New Jersey, accompanied their armies 
to the south, I think as a servant to one of the officers. He 
h-ere remained. He was a preacher of the Methodist denomi- 
nation for the last forty or fifty years of his life. He was an 
excellent teacher; many of the inhabitants of Newberry Avere 
taught by, and well remembered "Master Mitchell." He lived 
far beyond four score, and died in Edgefield District, within 
the last six or eight years. 

The Newberry Academy, built by voluntary subscriptions, 
went into operation, at the village, now tow^n of Newberry, in 
1800. Its most palmy days were when taught by the Rev. 
John Foster and Charles Strong. Many of the men of New- 
berry, among whom are Chancellor Johnston, F. B. Higgins, 
Esq., Judge O'Neall, Drayton Nance, Esq., there received 
their academic educations. Its value to the community can 
only be sufficiently estimated by those who have experienced its 
benefits. It is hoped, under its present teacher, Mr. Williams, 
it will rival and even excel its past bi'ightest days. 

This number has carried me greatly beyond the usual limits; 
but I hope the information which it embodies may excuse its 
length. In our next, Mr. Editor, we will run hastily over the 
settlers of the original town of Newberry, give some accoiint 
of matters connected with its history — notice briefly the public 
officers connected with the administration of justice, whose 
offices are kept at the town: and then in the succeeding num- 
ber, if we can obtain the materials, we will indulge in a hasty 
glance at the old Bush River Baptist Church and settlement. 



Rev. Charles Strong. 

The righteous sliall he hold in everlasting remembrance. 
The memory of the just is blessed; biit the name of the 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 69 

wicked shall rot. In estimating the relative value of hnman 
character, there is a vast difPerence between the standard 
adopted by the Bible, and that which obtains among men. 
On the page of profane history, the names of warriors, states- 
men, and politicians, occupy a prominent place, and their 
exploits constitute the theme of eulogy; but in the Bible we 
have a record of the names, and a history of the deeds of 
those who while in the world were not of the world. And 
the example of those who have walked with God is exhibited 
for our imitation, that we may be stimulated to follow them 
who through faith and patience are inheriting the promises. 
Some of the most interesting and instructive portions of the 
Bi))le are those in which we have a delineation of the life 
and character of those who in the midst of a crooked and 
perverse generation, did shine as lights in the world. And 
this scriptural example would seem to recommend the pro- 
priety of preserving a faithfml record of the lives of those 
who were a blessing to the age and the country in which 
they lived. But not unfreqiiently it happens that the most 
useful men are so constantly employed in an unostentatious 
way, in works of faith and labors of love, that they have had 
neither leisure nor disposition to preserve a record of passing 
events with which they were identified. And hence the biog- 
rapher searches in vain for such materials, as would enable 
him to do anything like justice to their memory. This dfiSiculty 
is very sensibly experienced at the present moment, while I 
undertake to give a brief sketch of the life of a dear friend, 
who was removed from the scene of his earthly labors in the 
vigor of his days, and in the midst of his usefulness. 

The Rev. Charles Strong, son of James and Letitia Strong, 
was born August 4th, 17SS. The offspring of Christian 
parents, he enjoyed the unspeakable advantage of a good 
religious education in early life. By the diligence and care 
of his i)ious parents, he was, while yet a child, made familiar 
with that admirable summary of Christian doctrine which is 
contained in the Westminster standards. And in addition to 
the religious training which he enjoyed under the parental 
roof, it was his privilege to enjoy the pastoral care of that 
thorough theologian, and that devoted minister of Christ, Rev. 
John Hemphill, D. D. Of the time when he was brought to 



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submit to the yoke of Christ, sind of his early Christian 
experience, the writer of this brief sketch has no definite 
information. All that is known with certainty is, that profiting 
by the religious instruction which he received, he was kept 
from running into those follies and irregularities into which 
so many of our youth are precipitated; and while he was yet 
voung, be began to seek after the God of his father: and at 
an early period of life, made a public jirofession of the name 
of Christ. ^Vhile yet a child, being distinguished for a 
sprightly and teachable disposition, and manifesting a fondness 
for books, his worthy father resolved to give him a good 
education, with a view to cpialify him for usefulness in the 
church of God. Accordingly he entered the academy at 
Monticello, which was under the care of the Rev. James 
Rodo-ers. an institution somewhat famous in its day, and in 
which many of our distinguished professional men in the 
South received the rudiments of their education. 

Having acquired that classical and scientific knowledge 
necessary to an entrance upon the study of a profession, Mr. 
Strono", deeply impressed with a sense of his obligation to 
redeeming grace, and anxious to make known to others the 
Saviour who was precious to his own soul, resolved to devote 
himself to the work of the ministry. Accordingly having 
made known his intention to the first Presbytery of the Caro- 
linas, he was received as a student of theology; and in the 
autumn of the year 1811, he repaired to New York and entered 
the Theological Seminary, which was under the care of Rev. 
John M. Mason. D. D., that prince of American theologians, 
and first of puli)it orators. Under this able instructor. Mr. 
Strono- devoted four years to theological studies, the usual 
term required in this institution. Having completed the pre- 
paratory course of study with honor to himself, he returned 
to his Presbytery and after performing with acceptance the 
usual exercises of trial, was on the 13th of July, 1815, licensed 
to preach the Gospel, as a probationer for the holy ministry. 
For the term of something more than a year, according to 
the ciistom of the chiirch, he exercised his ministry among 
the vacant congregations under the care of the Presbytery. 
And being received with favor, he was soon urged to accejjt 
of a pastoral charge. And having accepted a call from the 



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united congregations of Cannon Creek, King's Creek and 
Prosperity, he was ordained to the office of the holy ministry? 
and was installed November 8th, 1816. Here during the shor^ 
period of his ministry, he discharged the dtities of a Christian 
pastor with much acceptance, securing the confidence and 
esteem of the people over whom the Holy Ghost had made 
him an overseer. 

In accordance with the arrangements of Divine Providence 
for the good of society, Mr. Strong selected as the partner of 
his joys and of his sorrows. Miss Nancy Harris, daughter of 
John and Martha Harris, to whom he was imited in marriage 
February 13th, 1817. In the person of this lady, the Lord 
provided for Mr. Strong a wife of singular excellence, distin- 
guished for piiety and prudence, and one admirably qualified 
for the responsible station which she was called to fill. 

Occupied in an extensive and interesting field of labor^ 
enjoying the respect of the community and the warm affections 
of the people of his charge, Mr. Strong seemed to have before 
him the prospect of usefulness and comfort. Possessing a 
vigorous constitution, and enjoying a good degree of health,, 
the church was promising herself the long continued enjoy- 
ment of his valuable services. But how mysterious are the 
dispensations of Him whose way is in the sea, whose path i& 
in the great waters, and whose footsteps are not known ! In 
the short space of eight years, the work assigned to this 
faithful servant in the church below was finished: and he was; 
removed from his field of labor and usefulness on earth, as. 
we trust, to the enjoyment of his reward on high. On the- 
20th of July, 1824, this young, ardent and devoted laborer in 
the vineyard of the Lord rested from his labors. His amiable 
partner remained behind, to mourn her irreparable loss, for 
the space of eighteen years; and on the 8th of November, 
1842, was called, as we trust, to join her husband in the 
happy world where sorrow never comes. 

The fruits of the happy union of this beloved pair, were 
five children, four daughters and a son. Of the four daughters, 
the youngest, who was the wife of Mr. A. L. Patterson, of 
Burke County, Georgia, has already been called to follow her 
worthy parents. Three, who yet survive, have been called to 
occupy stations similar to that which their excellent mjothec" 



i2 ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

-adorned, and are the wives of respectable ministers of the 
-Associate Reformed Church. The only son, John Mason Strong, 
"devoted himself to the healing art, and occupied a respectable 
position in the medical profession. 

Mr. Strong was in person of the middle size. In a prepos- 
sessing countenance, mildness and benevolence were blended 
together; and these attractive qualities were lighted up 
by a peculiarly piercing eye. Gentle and unaffected in his 
manners, he was a most agreeable companion. Easy of 
access and familiar in his intercourse, he was always a welcome 
visitant among his parishioners. Unassuming, and at the same 
time, dignified in his deportment, his presence commanded 
respect. In the pulpit, free from everything like pharisaic 
austerity on the one hand, and levity on the other, his appear- 
ance was solemn and impressive. Possessing a voice clear, 
soft and harmonious, he was always heard with interest. 
Deeply impressed with a sense of the great importance of 
holding fast the truth as it is in Jesus, he determined in the 
exercise of his ministry not to laiow anything save Jesus 
Christ and Him crucified. Disregarding matters of curious 
speculation, as unworthy of a place in the pulpit, it was his 
aim to preach the Gospel, not with enticing words of man's 
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. 
His preaching consequently was not of that character which 
is adapted to amuse the curious; but which is suited rather 
to alarm the careless, to encourage the anxious enquirer, to 
comfort the moiTrner in Zion, and to build up the believer in 
faith and holiness. But well qualified as this good minister 
of Jesus Christ was to be a successful laborer in the vineyard 
of the Lord, and greatly needed as his services seemed to be, 
it pleased God to remove him thus early fi'om the toils and 
the conflicts of the church below, to enjoy, as we doubt not, 
the reward of the faithful servant — Blessed are the dead who 
die in the Lord — they rest from their labors. 



The Rev. Ch.a.eles Strong. — Twenty nine years have passed 
since the author of the following tribute to the memory of the 
Rev. Charles Strong saw him; still to-day, it seemed to him, 
as if he saw him, as he had seen him hundreds of times! 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 73 

He was of a common size, five feet eight or nine inches 
high; hair black; growing back, and divided above his temples, 
so as to expose his noble, intellectual forehead; eyes black; 
teeth good; face well formed, and rather ruddy, betokening 
health; his disposition was cheerful and happy, and this was 
seen in his lively, pleasant countenance. 

He, with Joseph and James Lowry, entered the South Caro- 
lina College, among the first students, probably, in 1805 or 
1806. Their necessities compelled them to board themselves; 
this they did by furnishing their own provisions, and cooking 
for themselves, in a room of the College near to their dormi- 
tories and study, which they were permitted thus to use. 

Notwithstanding this difficulty, by which many of the present 
youth would not only be startled, but would be turned back 
from the pursuit of an education, these clever young men 
pursued their studies with unabated ardor, and graduated, in 
December, 1808, good scholars, and prepared to be useful men. 
All these afterwards became ministers of the Gospel, teachers 
and preachers of their mighty Master's word. 

Charles Strong, immediately after his graduation, took charge 
of the Newberry Academy, and there taught until the summer 
of 1812, with great ability and success. His school was a large 
one, and beyond all doubt fully remunerated him for his labors. 

No better teacher coiild then have been found, his pupils 
showed then and since that they had been well taught. Gen. 
James Gilliam, Judge O'Neall, and F. B. Higgins, Esq., are 
three of his surviving pupils. 

In 1812 he left Newberry, and went to New York to enter 
ujion his ministerial course of study. At the end of three or 
four years he returned home, married Miss Harris, of Mecklen- 
burg, N. C, and took charge of the Associate Eeformed Pres- 
byterian congregations of Prosperity, Cannon's Creek, King's 
Crook and Head Spring, in Newberry. When his services there 
began is not certainly known; he was, however, thus employed 
before 1818; he settled among his people, within about six 
miles of Newberry C. H., on the road leading from the Black 
Jack, by William Spence's to the Long Lane, and there lived 
in great comfort and happiness, dispensing benefits and bless- 
ings all around him, until the summer of 1824. In the latter 
part of July, or the first days of August, he was called from 



74 ANNALS OF NEWBEBBV. 

his labors lieve to his everhistiiig rest! Ho was attacked with 
a high grade of bilioiis fever, and died in a few days, heaving 
a wife, four daughters and a son surviving him. 

On the tirst Monday of Aiigust, in the town of Newberry, in 
the presence of a great many auditors. Judge O'Neall, the 
President of the Newberry Bible Society, auxiliary to the 
American Bible Society, delivered before them, in an extra 
meeting called for that })urpose, the following address. It was 
the outi)ouring of the heart of a pui)il and intimate friend, 
when his memory and virtues were fresh, and is therefore more 
to be dei)ended on as faithful than anything which could nt)w 
be given: 

FeUoir-Mouhcrs : It has become my duty to announce to the 
Society the* mournful event which causes it to meet. The death 
of our late President, the Rev. Charles Strong, was a circum- 
stance so deeply affecting our interest and feelings as to 
justify an extra meeting. It has always been regarded by all 
bodies, whether civil or religious, as proper to bestow some 
mark of respect upon the memory of departed worth. It is 
true, it cannot be of any value to the dead, but it is of vast 
importance to the living. It sanctifies all our feelings of love, 
affection and respect, and in the language of Ossian, "It is 
like the memory of joys which are past; pleasant, yet mourn- 
ful to the soiil." The effect of such a tribute of respect, in 
exciting individuals to be also worthy, is manifest and striking. 
If the good and great men were permitted to descend to the 
tomb without any observation or comment, all the effects of 
their virtues would be lost with their names. Society might 
mourn in silent sadness the loss, but no voice would arise from 
the tomb, bidding the survivors to "go and do likewise." 

To those who knew our deceased brother eulogy is unneces- 
sary! His life spoke the good man in every sense of the word! 
His virtues were proclaimed in every act of his life, whether 
public or private! And. were it reasonable for me, in th(» 
]iresent state of affairs, to seek for the name of an indi- 
vidual on whom there was neither spot nor blemish, I should 
exultingly place my linger upon that of the Rev. Charles 
Strong! It has been my good fortune to know him long, and 
to know him intimately; and whether in the relation of a 
teacher or of a friend, he was alike the object, not only of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. <t> 

my respect, but also of un attachment which nothing but death 
could have terminated. The principal public duties of Mr. 
»Stron[^"s life were those of a teacher, a minister of the Gospel, 
and a founder of this iSociety. As a teacher, no individual 
could have boasted more of uninterrupted success; and no 
person of his age enjoyed in that capacity a more extended 
fame. Many of his pu])ils are now before me, and with me 
they will bear witness to the value of his instructions; and 
with me they will say, "We owe him a debt of gratitude 
which can never be extinguished." As a preacher Mr. Strong 
never pretended to the highest claims of eloquence. He taught 
lessons of Christianity in the plain langiiage of honesty and 
truth. He addressed the understandings of his hearers with 
the arguments of reason and piety, and like the dews of heaven 
they descended, spread over and adhered to every mind. One 
might have thought it strange that people could listen to him 
without feeling the necessity of worshiping God in spirit and in 
truth I He sought not to make converts by terror, ))ut by love! 
He did not hold out God as an object of terror, but of love unto 
his congregations! Although possessing great learning himself, 
he never sought to array his sermons with its pedantry; they 
were delivered in plain, unornamented language, suited to the 
feelings and capacities of his hearers; and as such he rendered 
them practically useful; and hence he became, not one of the 
most eloquent, but one of the most useful ministers of the 
Gospel. That he was in earnest in his calling, and that he 
endeavored to teach others to be what he really was, the good 
Christian, needs no demonstration. His congregations, his 
friends, his acquaintances, and even those v/ho never saw him 
but once, will bear witness to it. From the time he was 
ordained a preacher of the Gospel, he was '"the vigilant watch- 
man on the tower,*' proclaiming at all times the approach of 
the enemy. Temporal, when contrasted with eternal things, 
were considered as trash; and as one of the shepherds of Christ's 
flock. His staff and His scrip were preferred by him. His eyes 
were turned to the living God, whom he worshiped in spirit 
and in truth; and to His throne and the mercy-seat of Christ 
he diligently called the attention of all people to whom his 
ministry extended. 

Mr. Strong: was the founder of the Newberrv Auxiliarv Bible 



76 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Society. He was not only its founder, but also its support. 
His exertions prevented it from sharing, in common with many 
other good undertakings, an untimely fate. His unwearied 
attention to it, and his virtues, carried it triumphant through 
all its past difficulties. As being the means of distributing the 
word of God to the poor and needy, the ignorant and unin- 
formed, the bond and the free, he cherished this society. It 
is, and it ought to be, a living record of his Christian worth. 
The relations of life, whether those of neighbor, friend, hiis- 
band or parent, were all discharged by Mr. Strong in that way 
which will endear his memory to every one. When the tomb 
closed upon his body, it did not spread the pall of darkness 
upon his name. His neighbors, his friends, his wife and his 
children will shed, it is true, many a tear of regret over his 
grave, but yet sorrowing and in tears, they will say he was a 
good neighbor, a steadfast friend, and an affectionate husband 
and parent! 

Such, fellow-members, is a brief outline of our founder, former 
President, and fellow-member. His death, while yet in early 
life, has deprived us and society in general of his valuable 
services. For such a loss and deprivation we must grieve; but 
that grief ought to be tempered and restrained by a pious 
resignation to the will of Divine Providence. We should say 
with Job, "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away, 
blessed be the name of the Lord!'' And our tears should be 
dried up with the recollection of our deceased friend and 
brother, in the exchange of time for eternity, has entered 
upon that happy state, "Where the wicked cease from troubling, 
and the weary are at rest." But notwithstanding the consola- 
tions of religion may dry up our tears, yet a sincere grief for 
his loss, a just and a virtuous attachment to his memory, and 
the claims of society, require of us a last tribute of respect. 
"Hie saltern accumulem donis, et fimgar, inani muuere." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 77 



NO. 8. 

In ai)proacliing the fulfillment of the promise given, at the 
close of No. 7, I think it necessary to say a word or two more 
as to the location of the town of Newberry. It is situated 
immediately between the north and south branches of Scott's 
or Scotch Creek, and about a mile above their junction. The 
name of the creek is, in my estimation, doiibtful. For, al- 
though the pronunciation most general is Scotch creek, yet I 
have never been able to see the slightest reasons why it should 
be so called. The other name may be traced to an old set- 
tler, Thomas Scott, who lived near the soiTth branch. 

The town was originally entirely confined to the space be- 
tween Harrington, Adams, Boundary and McKibbin streets. It 
was subsequently extended east as far as Chancellor Johnston's 
homestead. The corporation now extends a mile, every way, 
from the court house, and I hope, in less than five years, all 
this space will be fully occupied by an active, enterprising 
population. The streets are entirely too narrow, being only 33 
feet wide; they were thus granted by the proprietors, John and 
Henry Coate. They are generally described in the deeds "with 
the privilege of a street 33 feet wide, all around an acre square." 
If any of them should ever be abandoned as streets, then, in- 
stead of belonging to the lot owners, they will revert to the 
heirs of the proprietors. It is proper to remark, that in all 
the lots recently laid off in connection with the extension of 
the town west, they have been laid out 40 and 50 feet wide. 
The Greenville and Columbia Railroad now soon thvis far to 
be completed, passes around the south and western parts of the 
village.* The depot is immediately between the extension of 
Pratt and Friend streets. It stands upon an elevation which 
overlooks the whole of the old town, which lies east of it. 
The town of Newberry, when it comes to be well built up 
east, south, west and north of the depot, will be a very 

*In March, 1851, it reached Newberry, and with all its branch es (164 
miles) was finished December, 1853. The town of Newberry is now a 
beautiful, prosperous one; it contaiuh 1,800 inhabitants. 



78 ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. 

beautiful one. The north branch of Scott's Creek Avill run 
through it, just at the base of the depot hill; along its 
southern margin will run the extension of Harrington until it 
intersects Drayton street. Newberry may, like old Rome, 
boast of being biiilt on her seven hills, and may even point 
to the creek winding its way through her clustering houses, 
as her Tiber. But if this dream, as many of our wise ones 
will no doubt call it, should ever be realized. I hope that the 
town of Newberry will never be disgraced by civil dissensions, 
immoral practices, or that most hateful and disorganizing of 
all business, the dram sliop; but on the contrary, that she 
will be blessed by a harmonious, honest, working, sober, 
patriotic and religious peojile. If this be so, I shall j>roudly 
point to the town where much of my life has been spent, 
and to the prosperity of which I have devoted many of my 
energies, as worthy of all praise and imitaiton. 

It may not be amiss, too, to remark that the supposition 
that the town is unhealthy is entirely without foundation. 
There was once good reason to say that it was so; but since 
the removal in 1831, of Farnandis' mill pond on the north 
fork of the creek, and since the Town Council have bestowed 
a little care, on the cleanliness of the streets, there is no local 
cause for disease; and accordingly, for several years past, it 
may challenge comparison for health, with any of the towns 
of the interior. 

There are two meeting houses in the town.* The Baptist 
was built in 1832, for the church which grew out of the great 
revival of 1831. This extraordinary outpouring of the Spirit 
took place under the preaching of Elder N. W. Hodges, 
assisted by Messrs. Barnes, Chiles and Furman. The church 
thus gathered together, where none before existed, has had 
the services of Elders Barnes, Hodges, Mangum, Lindsey, 
Frean, Gibson, Landrum, Barnet, and has now those of Elder 
Brantly. Mr. Hodges was a native of Abbeville, and a gradu- 
ate of the South Carolina College. He lived from December, 
1831, to 1835, in the village. Under his care the church 
grew and multiplied greatly. He was afterwards the agent of 
the Baptist State Convention and resided at Greenwood for 

*Tbere are now six, besides those mentioned in the text, are the Pres- 
byterian, Episcopal, Seceders, and Liitheran. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 79 

several years, until he was transferred to the Furman Institute, 
and took charge of the classical school. In 1842 he finished 
his useful labors and was gathered to his rest. His second 
wife preceded him by a few weeks; their children have been 
cared for by their l)rethren and sisters. Thomas Frean united 
himself to the Baptist Church, at N(»w])erry, on leaving the 
Methodist connection, in which he had been a local preacher. 
He was ordained, and occupied the j)lace of Pastor of the 
church for a few years; indeed, imtil he was elected Surveyor 
General, and removed to Columbia. He is an Irishman; he 
has fine talents, and has very faithfully improved them. He Y>— 
still lives in Columbia. Long may he be s})ared to his family 
and to usefulness. The other meeting house is the Methodist. 
It was built about 1833. A very respectable body of Methodists 
and })ious Christians there worshi}) God. The Presbyterian 
house of worship called Aveleigh is about one and a half 
miles from the town.* John Coate, (little) the original pro- 
])rietor of the town, and of course the first resident, did not 
live within the first village, as laid off by himself. Indeed it 
was not extended beyond his dwelling, (on the lot now owned 
by Dr. Thomi)son,) until after the death of his son, Caj)t. 
Henry Coate. I have no distinct recollection of John Coate. 
He must have died between 1802 and 1804. He was repre- 
sented as a very skilful mechanic, capable of executing almost 
anything, as a blacksmith, or as a silversmith. He left many 
children, two of whom, Henry Coate and Marmaduke Coate, 
lived at different times in the village, and had much to do 
with its prosperity. 

Henry Coate was the deputy of Sheriff John Speake, the 
first District Sheriff of Newberry, who was elected in December, 

1800, and entered on the duties of his office in February, 

1801. Most of the lousiness of the office was conducted by 
the deputy, who was a man of biisiness, and every way worthy of 
the trust. He performed the disagreeable duty of executing the 
first man hanged at Newberry, William Tate, otherwise called 
and better known as William Tannyhill, who was convicted at 
March Term, 1802, and executed for horse stealing. In con- 
nection with this unfortunate man's fate may be stated a 
circumstance which created much excitement at the time: 

* Removed to the town. 



80 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Two physicians, (one of whom was afterwards a man of nnich 
distinction,) determined on possessing themselves of the body. 
The poor culprit, at his recjuest, was decently interred, and he 
had also made arrangements to have his grave inclosed. 

The doctors succeeded in disinterring the body, and dis- 
secting it. One of thorn, who, then lived at Dr. Biellers, 
(now Chancellor Johnston's plantation, at the mouth of Bush 
River,) put the bones in a bag, and actually carried them 
home, more than ten miles, at night. Just as he reached 
Geo. McKinsey's (now Dr. Bobo's })resent residence,) his bag 
became untied, and he lost a part of the skeleton; he roused 
McKinsey from his sleep, got a light, and to the horror of 
the stout farmer gathered up tho disjecta membra, (the 
scattered bones,) and pursued his homeward way. The report 
got out, that he boiled the bones in Bieller's still, and many 
a whiskey drinker turned with loathing from the after runs 
of whiskey there made. The doctors were indicted for this 
sacriligious invasion of the rest of the grave; one, the most 
guilty, fled the country, the other remained, and against him 
the prosecution Avas allowed to fall. 

After this episode, which is longer than the main discourse, 
I must be allowed to return to Capt. Coate. He commanded 
for many years the company of cavalry, originally raised by 
Maj. William Craig and Frederick Nance, and finally com- 
manded by Capt. John Cappleman.* He was the surrogate 
of the Ordinary, Samuel Lindsey, Esq., (except a brief inter- 
val, which was filled by John Gould,) to his resignation, in 

* This company, originally a very fine one, dwindled down to a very 
poor troop. The horses and accoutrements of the troopers were very 
remarkable for their lack of every thing to constitute cavah-y. I remem- 
ber very well to have seen the squadron reviewed in 180S, south of the 
Academy. One of the men belonging to Cappleman's troops was McCart; 
ho had neither cap nor other cavalary equipment, except a long dragoon's, 
sword; he rode a very small pony. In one of the charges ho was fully 
100 yards in the rear, accompanied by a dog, nearly as large as his 
charger. One of the students defeated McCart's file coverer by throwing 
a stone at, and hitting the poor dog, and senihng him yelping from the 
field. It was on that occasion that the reviewing officer drawing up his 
command in line before the Academy, said to Cappleman's company, 
"Gentlemen, if I was in your places I would be asiiamed of riding such 
little rat tail ponies, which I could take by the tail, and sling over the 
Academy at one jerk." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. g^ 

1815. He was also the deputy of Sheriff Long, in his brief 
sheriffalty of 1807. After his marriage to his first wife, 
Elizabeth Long, he ceased to reside in the then village.' 
AJ.ej her dea^b, he nia4'e.i her siste ■, May. He died ''in 
1827. Of bias I may we'l say, that he had many, very many 
oxcelleit qua! 'tics. 

Maj. Frede Ick Naace was, I p esume, the first settler at 
and with'n the limits of the village of Newberry. He was a 
native of Ameb'a CounU, Virginia; he was born the 13th day 
of AugusL, 1770, and died tae 10th of Februa-y, 1840. He 
Jived io the house now owned by his daughter, Mrs. Dorothy 
B. Pratt.* He ma ried Elizabeth Rutherford, the daughter of 
Col. Robert Ruiberfojd. Maj. Nance was the deputy of Wm. 
Malone, the first County Clerk of Newbeny, from May term 
'93, liU February, '94, when he ceased to be the deputy and 
Wm. Satierwhite was appointed in his place. At May term, 
'94, Wm. Malone resigned, and Maj. Nance was appointed 
Connty Clerk in his place. When the County Courts were 
abolished in January, 1800, a ad the Civcuit Districo Courts 
established in '98 and '99, went into operation, he was recom- 
meaded and appointed by the Governor, Clerk of Newberry, 
and continued in office until 1807, when he resigned, and Y.' 
J. Hanington, Esq., our i^esent excellent Clerk, succeeded 
him.f The writer had not that sort of knowledge in 1807, 
which would enable him to speak with accuracy^of the dis- 
charge of the duties of Clerk by Maj. Nance; but judging 
from his jecoeds, and thm reputation, it is due to him to say 
that no one could have better discharged the duties. Indeed, 
few men had the inflnence which he had while in that office; 
he was pretty much the legal adviser of all the citizens.^ 
The prc3rs3 of avraignment of a criminal is a very imposing 
one, whea properly canied out. The fine person of Maj. 

* Mrs. Pratt is no more. 

t Mr. HarriDfelon died fa'l of 1850. 

X He wrs also a merchant and laid thefovndalions of the wealth which 
he realized m the successful puimiit of that business. His direction to 
Y. J. Harriuf,'tou, who was in 1799 h^s clerk, and who then had I'ttle 
acquaintance with the people trading at Newberry, 's so creditable to 
our Ge.man population that it ought to be generally known. He sp^'d to 
him, "Whenever a Dutchman asks for credit, you need not hesitate ah out 
it, and y thout consrH'ng any one, you mav give the credit asked " 

1 f' 



82 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Nance, and his full knowledge of, and correct arraignment of 
a prisoner, made, in the spring of 1807, a deep impression on 
the writer, who, as a country boy, looked upon and listened 
to that ceremony when James Toland was put to the Bar. 
How he acquired the title of major ought perhaps to be 
stated: he was the lieutenant of the company of cavalry 
raised by Craig and himself. When Craig became the major, 
he rose to be captain. Prior to his promotion, Henderson 
and Williams, lieutenants in other companies, junior to him, 
became captains. On Craig's abdication of the command of 
the squadron, by leaving the country. Col. Creswell, who 
commanded the regiment, held under the law providing for 
promotion by seniority, that as Frederick Nance was the oldest 
lieutenant in the squadron, although the junior captain, he 
was entitled to the command of the squadron. He accordingly 
commissioned him major, and as such he commanded, at one 
regimental or squadron muster. Captains Henderson and 
Williams protested against Colonel Creswell's decision, and a 
Court of Inquiry reversed it. The consequence was that 
Frederick Nance and John Henderson both resigned, and 
James Williams became the major. After Major Nance's 
resignation of the clerkship, he was a candidate for Congress 
to fill up General Casey's unexpired term; he was defeated 
by Capt. Joe Calhoun; but he received an almost unanimous 
vote in Newberry. He was elected Lieutenant-Governor, 
December, 1808, and qualified with the Governor, John Dray- 
ton. In 1812, he was elected Senator in the State Legislature 
from Newberry, and served two terms. In 1816 ho was 
appointed the Elector of President for the Congressional 
District, consisting of Newberry, Fairfield and Laurens, and 
voted for James Monroe, President, and Daniel D. Tompkins< 
Vice-President. Having served for two years, as a Repre- 
sentative, while Major Nance was Senator, enables me to say 
that Newberry never has had a more faithful and useful 
servant than he was. The deafness, which was creeping on 
him, induced him to decline a reelection in 1820, and he 
ever after lived a private man. He was twice married: his 
first wife I have already named. The death of this excellent 
lady took place in 1829; her many virtues endeared her not 
only to her own family, but also to her many friends. None, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 83 

however, felt her loss like her husband. In 1831, he married 
Mrs: Theresa EufF, who survived him. By his first marriage, 
he had eleven children, nine of whom, Kobert K., Dorothy 
B., Drayton, Amelia, Frederick, Sarah, Frances, Alfred and 
Laura, lived to be men and women; by his last marriage, he 
had one daughter, Martha, now Mrs. Calmes.* 

Major Nance was a useful man. He was a good neighbor, 
a firm friend, a devoted husband aud father. Having known 
him from my childhood to his death, it is right and proper 
that I should say he well deserves to be remembered, when 
V Newberry presents her most respectable and worthy citizens. 
I think, at one time, Samuel Lindsey, Esq., lived in the 
village, and occupied as a tavern the old house, which stood 
on the ground, where the brick hotel now stands. This 
gentleman was a soldier of the Revolution; he, with his 
brothers, John, James, Thomas and Col. John Adam Summer, 
under the command of Col. Philemon Waters, brought off a 
field piece at the battle of Stooo, which had been abandoned 
by its officers and men. From '99 to 1815 he was the Ordi- 
nary of Newberry District, and I regret to be compelled to 
say, that his office was neither well kept, nor its duties well 
understood. In 1813 an attempt was made by John Gould 
to have him impeached; this was pursued until December, 
1814, when, after a regular hearing before a committee, of 
which Samuel E. Kenner was chairman, it was recommended 
that articles should not be preferred against him; this was 
concurred in by the House; and thus the matter ended. He 
was an intelligent, venerable looking man; he wrote a good 
hand but never understood anything of accounts. He drank 
intoxicating drinks to excess for many years before 1815; in 
the beginning of that year, he was struck with paralysis, 
which deprived him of the power of speech, and the use of 
his right hand, so that he could not write. In this miserable 
condition, he, by his surrogates, John Gould and Henry Coate, 
discharged the duties of his office until November 1815, and 
actually made his mark to many an official paper. His resig- 
nation, in November, 1815, was sent to the Legislature, and 
James Farnandis, Esq., very much to the honor and advantage 
of Newberry, succeeded him. 

* Of these nine only two, Frederick and Laura, in '58 survived. 



84 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Samuel Lindsey lived many years after the sad visitation of 
Providence, to which I have alluded; in his old age, and 
laboring under this grievous infirmity, he experienced a change 
of heart, and was united to the Baptist Church. He lived to 
be an old man, beyond three score and ten. He died p^-obably 
in 1826 or 1827. 

Here I may be permitted to remark, that with this excep- 
tion, and possibly Sheriff Speake, Newberry, Lorn 1785 to this 
time, has never bad a bad pH&?/c' officer. Never has a surety 
of a Sheriff, Ordinary, Tax Collector, Clerk, or Commissioner 
in Equity, been compelled to pay a cent for any default, in 
any one of these public offices! This is high praise, but it 
is true; aad hence the unexampled prosperity of Newbeny. 
Such a thing as riiling a Sheriff here to compel him to pay 
money which he has collected, and about the application of 
which there is no dispute, is, ever has beefi, and I hope ever 
will be, imknoicn. 



No. 8 Continued. 

The old tavern occupied by Captain Lindsey, as he was 
often called, was afterwards occupied and kept by Nicholas 
Vaughan for a short time. There was nothing remarkable in 
his life upon which I can put my finger. His sons, by his 
first ma riage, Drurv, James and Walter V., were very well 
known in Laurens and Newberry. His second wife was Nancy 
Lee, the widow of Andrew Lee, of Lee's ferry, on Saluda. 
(Of her and her first husband, when I come to speak of the 
Revolution, I may detail an anecdote.) By his second mar- 
riage he had one or more children. He died on Saluda, I 
think, about 1804 or 1805. 

William Satterwhite, (commonly called Buck Satte: white,) 
who was the deputy of William Malone, County Clerk f>om 
February, '94 to May, '94, and who was the Sheriff of the 
County from '98 till 1801, kept tavern in the house above 
described. It is probable he preceded Nicholas Vaughan. 
During the time he kept this house, his wife eloped with 
Maj. ^^'m. Craig, leaving behind her. her infant child. Strange 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 85 

to say, she a:id Craig liv^ 1 ia Florida and Georgia, as man 
and wife, happily aad respectably. Maj. Craig was an United 
Irishman of 1791, the object of which Society was, as stated 
in the address of '93, "aniversal enr-anchisement and a rea^ 
representation of the people in Parliament " Like Rowan and 
oihei*s, he had to fly from his country, where I have always 
uaderstood he leio a wife aud children. He was a merchant 
at Newberry, and did business in a house which stood where 
the house now occupied by Mr. Jones as a cabinet maker's 
shop Stands, and which was burnt. My impression is, he 
built in its place the house now standing, and ihere did busi- 
ness, until he fled Tx'om Newberry, taking with him the wife 
of his landlord and fiJend, in 1799. 

This was a death blow to the injured husband; his habits 
of diiak. which were verging to excess before, now became 
confirmed, and opened to him an eady grave ! 

John Andei'son, the third person buried in the village 
graveyard, kept tavein at Newberxy. My impression is, he 
kept tavern, in 1802, in the house now owned and occupied 
by Hugh K. Boyd as a kitchen, afterwards in the house 
occupying tbe site of the brick hotel. A celebrated wag, (John 
Gould) has often told, that at that period, "the various 
boarders at Mr. Anderson's hotel, each mornirg paraded on 
the hill, where the Courtbouse stands, before breakfast; when 
the horn blew, each started at ihe top of his speed; if any 
one stumped his toe, he turned back, well knowing before 
he could get in all would be eat up." 

The bouse (Boyd's) was arte"wa'"ds occupied by Jacob 
Lewis, who was dubbed by the mischievous wags "Chewwink," 
after a little bird having a cy somewhat resembling that 
name, and remarkable for its habit of bobbing up and down 
on a lim'o. 

Poor Jake was a good natured, honest man utterly unfit 
for such a business; and to use a cant expression, "he was 
soon used up." While living in Newbe'ry, his niece was 
supposed to have taken laudanum. Jake was seen posting 
early in the morniog to the doctors; "Where are you going, 
J tike?" was the inquiry, "I am going after the doctor, that 

d d nephy of mine has taken lodamy draps," was the 

answer. 



86 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Among the early settlers of Newberry was Dr. Samuel 
Todd, who was a sojourner for a short time; he subsequently 
moved to, and died in Laurens, possessed of great wealth. 
Of him, during his sojourn at Newberry, a most laughable 
anecdote was told by John Thweatt. The Doctor was an 
Irishman, fresh from the sod. He had heard a great deal 
about bees; in a plum orchard, near the village, he fancied 
he had found a swarm; running into the house, he com- 
municated the fact to his wife, who, like himself, was from 
Ireland: "Och, Dr. dear, and how shall we know our baes 
from Maj. Nance's baes?*' was her anxious response. "Och, 
child," said the Dr., "our baes can be kenned well enough, 
they are as ba faced and as white-legged as our sorrel 
mear." He procured Peter Julien to hive the bees for him, 
and sadly to the cost of both, they found, instead of a 
swarm of bees, a large hornet's nest. 

Peter Julien, better known as Esquire Julien, was long a 
magistrate, and afterwards the Coroner of Newberry Dirstrict. 
He often lived in the village, and finally killed himself, 
where the old road leading through Chancellor Johnston's 
possessions by Frank Atkins old place into the Charleston 
road, near Esquire McCalla's residence, turned off from the 
Columbia road. This fatal deed was performed by hitching 
the trigger of a shot gun on the limb of a bush and holding 
the gun to his breast, and pulling it forward. He was an 
old man, full of years, when he thus foolishly and madly 
cut short his career. 

John Thweatt! who does not remember John? beyond 
doubt one of the most witty men who ever lived in this 
land. He was a native of Virginia. He lived often in the 
village. He was as remarkable for his good humor as his 
•wit; vet to him was left the honor of beating the buUi'es of 
the Fork, and the Chinquepins, and thus making them very 
peaceable men. I allude to Honorius Sheppard and Wm. 
Montgomery, (commonly called Billy McGlamery.) John's 
usual occupation was wagoning. It is impossible to embody 
in such an article as this, the innumerable anecdotes in which 
he was concerned. I mention one with a view to follow it 
up, by showing in his after life, that impenitence did not 
follow and close it up against hope. Driving his wagon on 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 87 

H warro day, in the epring, ou a return trip from Charles- 
ton, along the old road, above Orangeburg, he cam(! opposite 
to a clearing, in which a man and his sons had been 
engaged in burning the log". They were as black and 
dirty as lightwood smoke and sand could make them; as 
soon as John saw them, he leaped from his horse, and 
kneeling down, he prayed in a loud voice "Great God, be 
pleased to send a shower to wash these poor people, for I 
have often heard that nothing unclean shall enter into the 
kingdom of heaven, and if they should now be cut off in 
their present unclean condition, they never there can enter!" 
The amazement of his auditors may be imagined, it cannot 
be descriVjed. 

He left Newberry for Georgia, where I think he now lives, 
a member of, and I have heard, a preacher of the Methodist 
denomination. Thus, indeed, although he began to pray in 
ridicule, he now, like Saint Paul, may be pointed out as a 
convert, for 'Ho! he prayeth!'^ 

The "L" house, owned and occupied by Dr. Long, was 
built by Major Thomas W. Waters in '90 or 1800. Its first 
occupants (whom I remember) were John, George and Lewis 
McCreless. The latter was killed soon after he came to the 
village near the mile stone on the ColumVjia road, by his 
horse running away with him, and throwing him against a 
tree. He was the first i)erson buried in the village graveyard. 
Miss Bond, the daughter of John P. Bond, of Lexington, and 
niece of John McCreless, was the second. 

Of George McCreless, I have already spoken. John Mc- 
Creless was a very remarkable man. Few men surpassed him 
in his capability to discharge any business. His information, 
for the time he lived at Newberry, between '09 and 1800, 
was rather above the common standard. He composed pretty 
good poetry. A friend, from memory, has furnished me with 
the following : 

"Billy McGlamery is come to town 

To empty cups and glasses ! 
He takes the taverns, in a line, 

And drains them as he passes. 
He robs the flies of what is their right, 

And leaves them not a taste, sir, 
I, warrant you he stays all night, 

To see that nothing wastes, sir !" 



bb ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

He sold out his possessions to Mr. John Johoston, the 
father of Chancellor Johnston, and removed *roin Newberry. 
I next met with him in 1811, as a tavern keeper at Spring 
Hill, Lexington District. He was subsequently elected the 
Clerk of the Court for that district, removed to or near 
Granby, and discharged the duties of Clerk, Register of 
Mesne Conveyances, Commissioner of Locations and Ordinary, 
until the Court was removed from Granby to Mrs. Corley's, 
the present seat of justice, Lexington Court House. This 
was about 1820. The last I knew of bim was in the neigh- 
borhood of Columbia, in 18'29. Since then I have lost sight 
of him; whether he be dead or not, I cannot say, though I 
presume he is. 

Daniel Brooks, Esq., was another of the early settlers of 
Newberry. He lived on the lot where Dr. Harrington lived 
in 1850; he built the house which Vincent V. Pope removed 
from it. Brooks was a saddler by trade and a man of moch 
intelligence; he wrote a good hand; he was long a magistrate 
of Newberry. He lived a few years since in the neighbor- 
hood of Due West Corner, Abbeville. His son John was 
one of the brave men, who went oot from Newberry as a 
volunteer in the Mexican campaign, and returned, after 
treading, in victory and triumph, the streets of Mexico. 
Since, he madly put an end to bis life. 

Samuel Ker, Esq., was the firsl lawyer who ever resided 
in Newberry; he was here, I know in 1804; bow much 
earlier he occupied the ground I do not certain^ I'QOvv, 
probably in 1808. He ]ived in the house just spoken of, he 
had a tine practice; but was not, I tbink, a very well educated 
lawyer. Connected with his name c.nd family is another very 
interesting reminiscence. His wifw and her sister were from 
the West Indies. The latter, on the voyage thence to Chailes- 
ton, was engaged to McNeill, of the fivm of Sherman & 
McNeill, of Charleston. He alleged that the engagement was 
a mere piece of badinage on bis part, but she made it 
earnest. They were married; the firm failed. McNeill, after 
sojourning for a time at Newberry, left for his place of 
nativity, Caswell County, North Carolina. He had contracted 
habits of intoxication, which soon carried bim to bis grave. 
One child was the issue of the marriage. In 1815, I saw 



ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 89 

his widow, she, who bad once revelled ia wealth, who had 
been, the associate of taste, fashion and refinemeat, in a 
cabin, not 15 feet square, in the wild woods of a very- 
remote part of Caswell County, every tittle of farniture about 
the house was not worth twenty dolla»-s. At her feet were 
children born in hec widowhood. Her child by McNeill was 
in the care of a highly respectable gentleman, James Yancey, 
Esq. How sad are the consequences of intemperance ! Ker 
removed about 1800 from Newberry to Louisiana, possibly 
to New Orleans. 

Simon T. Sbe^ma'^ of the tii-m of Sherman & McNeill, 
Charleston, though not an inl^abitant of the village, yet was 
the sonin-Iaw and surrogate of Samuel LIndsey, Esq. He 
lived near the fo'd of the ceeli, on the road from Newbei.y 
to Higgin's fe.»'y. He lies buried somewhere near the place 
where he lived, in that part of the plantation of Judge 
O'Neall on the creek, and above the fo:»'d but where, though 
often sought for. cannot be ascertained. He died between 
1811 and 1812, leaving, notwithstanding the failure of his 
firm, a conside^'able property in the possession of his widow; 
but a large debt of the firm to Hugh Patter.son, for Peoman, 
Shaw & Co., was set up a'uer his death, and although 
compromised at a great deal less than was due, swept off 
the great bu^k of bis property. 

George Schoppert settled in Newberry in '99. He went 
there as a mechanic, in the employment of his brother-in- 
law, Thomas W. Water's, who was engaged in building the 
jail, the couiououse, and out uf the refused timber for these 
public buildings, his "L" house herein before spoLen of. 
Mr. Schoppert was an Industrious house carpenter; he soon 
made out to buy the western quarter acre of the lot now 
belonging to Di. Hai iugton. Here he lived i om "99 to 
1826, when he died. Here he raised his children, P/ecious, 
Philip, Joseph and Elizabeth; all of whom, except Philip, 
are no more. Mr. Scl'opperu bui't most of the houses in 
the Village and its vicinity from '99 to his death. He was 
the ensign of the Newberry Artillery Company, and served 
the tour of duty at Camp Alston in 1814. He came to 
this State from Maryland, but I think he was a native of 
Pennsylvania. He was a soldier in the prmy embodied to 



90 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

put dowa the Whiskey Insurrection, and when in his cups, 
used to take great delight in singing an old soldier's song, 
beginning "\Ye are the boys who fear no noise." The 
Dutch dance, "Hoop s<3 saw" was another of his favorites, 
when he had a taste too much of the "overjoyful." He 
was of German descent, and was as hard working, honest, 
industrious a man as ever the sun shone upon. From great 
poverty, he struggled on to rather more than competence, 
notwithstanding an expensive family. His widow Catherine 
survived him. She was an universal favorite in the mirth- 
loving village of Newberry. Caty Chopper, as she was 
usually called, and her snuff-box were synonymous with fun, 
until 1819, when she became a member of the Methodist 
Church. Her husband soon followed and died 1825. She 
died about 1829. Their child, Joseph, died before either 
of them, I think in 1817 or 1818. Precious married Dr. 
Thomas Shell, whom she survived; Elizabeth married Joel 
Stevenson, who survived her; Philip is now an inhabitant of 
Eutaw, Alabama. Like his father, he was a house carpenter; 
he partook much of his mother's temperament; he loved 
mischief and fun, and was rarely surpassed at either. No 
man has spent a more laborious life, and no one has more 
signally failed in securing even competence. He, like his 
parents, is a Methodist, and is, I believe, a Christian. If 
my good wishes could change the adverse current against 
which he has been rowing, he would have them now as 
he has ever had, with now and then a little more sub- 
stantial than good wishes. 

John Speake, the Sheriff from February, 1801, to February, 
1805, never lived at the court house. He was a soldier of 
the Revolution, and died, I presume, since 1828. The 
office of Sheriff had not many duties in his time; such as 
they were, he had but little to do with them. He, however, 
whipped the first man I ever saw whipped for the violation 
of the law. At October Term, 1802, John Sloan (calling 
himself Col. John Sloan,) a stranger in our community, 
was indicted before Judge Brevard, at Newbeny, and con- 
victed of passing, knowing it to be counterfeit, a counterfeit 
double guinea which was not current coin, and therefore 
not within the statutes against counterfeiting the current 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



91 



coin or passing such coanterfeited current coin, knowing it 
to be counterfeit. I see, on looking to the indictment, he 
was indicted merely for passing a counterfeit doable guinea 
knowing it to be counterfeit. I apprehended on such an 
indictment, no judgment could hare been awarded, if the 
matter ■ had been properly canvassed. I presume from the 
sentence passed; it must have been awarded under the 
statute, 8 H. 8. c. 1, "against them that counterfeit letters, 
or privy tokens to receive money or goods in other men's 
name," and which provides punishment for such as be 
thereof convicted, "by imprisonment of his body, setting 
upon the pillory or other corporal pain, (except pains of 
death"). The culprit was tied to the hickory, which once 
stood east of the old shoe store. He received 39 on his 
bare back; and every stripe upon his fair and fat back 
might have been counted by the marks, none of which cut 
the skin. He said that "it put him into such an exceeding 
good humor, he seemed as if he loved the world." 



No. 8 Continued. 

Sheriff Speake was succeeded by P. B. Waters, the son 
of Col. Philemon Waters, of revolutionary memory, who was 
elected December, 1804, and entered on the duties of Sheriff 
in 1805. He married shortly before, or soon after he was 
elected, Sarah, the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Gillam. 
He and his wife lived in the house herein before described, 
built by Daniel Brooks, Esq. He removed from his planta- 
tion on Bush River to the house now owned and occupied 
by Major John B. McMorries, but did not live to complete it.* 

* David Gunn, after the removal of Major Cureton, hereafter to be 
spoken of, lived in this house to his death, in '27 or '28, He was a native 
of North Carolina, neighborhood of Fayetteville. He came to Newberry 
about 1811 or 1812. He was a wheelwright: he made gigs and Windsor 
chairs; he had very little competition, and must have made money. He 
worked first where Hugh K. Boyd lives; after he bought Curetou's lot, 
he built a shop on the corner, just opposite to L. J. Jones' dwelling. He 



92 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

Mr. Waters was a surveyor, and a very good and suc- 
cessful one. The duties of Sher'ff he was ve-y competent 
to pe^j'orm, and most fa'tbfti^ly did he discharge them. 
Mr. Waters was the lib'"a^-'an of the L'brary Society, which 
was raised about 1803, and consisted of the vi'^agers, and 
many of the people of the country a'ound. Tbey tad a 
pretty good selection of books, and much good did it do, 
by placing the meaas of information within the reach of 
many who could not otherwise have obtained it. But like 
many other good things, after a while it began to languish, 
and "Janguish'ng did Jive" until 1811, when it died, by 
the membe/8 ordering all the books to be sold. I am 
almost tempted to say, shame upon such folly i Such an 
institution, noiv in the towa of Newberry, would be worth 
more than thousands of dollars divided amongst its irhabi- 
tants. Many an one, with the opportunity of thus getting 
books, would be found reading instead of bending his elbow 
at that celebrated place called "Juliu's." 

Sheriff Walers died in 1807, (February,) he left two chil- 
dren, and a third was bo a soon aiter his decease. His 
daughter, Mary, is the wife of Philip Schoppert. Robert, 
his eldest sou, em'grated to Texas, was a soldier in the 
Texan war against Mexico; was captuied at Mier, and was 
long a prisoner in Mexico; was at length released, at the 
instance of Gen. Thompson, while minister to that republic. 
In the war of the United States with Mexico, he was one 
of the Texan Kangers, and died between Matamoras and 
Monterey. Philemon, his youngest son, emigrated to Ala- 
bama, and there died. 

No better man ever lived in Newberry -than Sheriff Waters 
He was a well-educated, honest, high-minded man, faithfu^- 
in the discha'-ge of all his duties, and all the relations of 
life; he was the worthy son of a woithy sire. 

was a \ '.olent Federalist, and when he came to Newberry he was in the 
Ep-dst of Republicans, and had, therefore, a very iincooifortable t'lie as 
to po^'tic"", for years. For geaerally he was in a miuor'ty of one. lie, 
however, worked constantly, and people overlooked Is political errors, 
on account of his industry. He was a bachelor; whea prosperity came 
to him, it b;"ought in its tra'n habits of drink, wb'ch not amounting to 
druukenress, yet shoii.ened his days, and wasted his means; he died with 
little more than paid bis debts pnd the e::penses of administration. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 93 

The bouse now occupied by Pope and Farrow,* once 
stood in the rear of Steele's store house, now General 
Hunt's; it was then kept by John Gould, as a billiard 
house. He subsequently was associated with P. B. Waters, 
as a meTchaot, and did business in Henry Coate's house, 
which stood where Steele's store stands. He, in 1814, 1815 
and 1816, kept tavern in the "L" house, then the property 
of James Farnandis. 

This gentleman (John Gould) was the nephew of old Bill 
Gould (the Beaverdam King). He received a pretty good 
English education; wrote a good hand, and was Oiten 
employed as a clerk by Capt. Daniel Parkins, Hugh 
O'Neal), and other merchants. At the sa'e of the personal 
estate of Capt. Daniel Parkins, in February, 1803, which 
extended through a week, he was clerk of the administratoi3. 
At that time he got the nickname t)t "the tongs." He 
was remarkable for very long and slim legs ! A little bird 
had been caught in the snow, which then for several inches 
in depth covered the whole country, and given to the 
youngest child of the deceased, Mark, then an infant; it 
had fluttered out of his hands, and took refuge under a 
corner cupboard. Every body was anxious to retake the 
bird for the weeping child; anioug the rest, Gould had 
been in anx'ous pursuit, and when it took refuge under the 
cupboard, he got down on aU four's, and was reaching under 
to seize it. Old Billy Mills sitting by the fire, and looking 
on, observing Gould, sa'd to the company, "Never mind 
boys, the tongs will get it." 

Mr. Gould was also a teacher, and along the Beaverdam 
taught the young idea how to shoot. His frequent resi- 
dences at Newberry made him tbe participant in and the 
maker of many a joke. An example is all which I can 
give. 

Walking one night through the orchard, where Mooney's 
shop and brick house now stands, he heard some one 
praying, and walking up to the sound, he found a house 
carpenter and joiner, Dixon, with bis neck handkerchief 
tied around his neck, and fastened to the limb of an apple 

* Since removed to make room *or the Newberry Bank and Jones' 
Law Office. 



94 ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 

tree, and bim on his knees. Gould said to him, "what are 
you doing hero?" "I am going to Heaven!" was the 
foolish answer. Gould replied, "everybody will be in bed 
and asleep before you get there." He untied the handker- 
chief from the limb, shouldered Dixon, carried him to the 
fence and threw him over it into the road, and that broke 
the love charm which was leading the (^Id fool on to 
suicide. He afterwards married the mother of the woman 
for whom he was then about hanging himself. No man 
delighted more in mirth and a frolic, than did Gould. 
He married Charity Lindsay, the daughter of Thomas 
Lindsay; he had throe children by her, one of whom, the 
youngest daughter, is, I think, married and living in the 
Dutch Fork. His wife died, and is buried in the village 
graveyard. After her death he removed to Georgia, and 
thence to Louisiana. There he was for a long time con- 
fined in goal for debt; he was released by an act of the 
Louisiana Legislature. He was last heard of in Natchez 
soliciting the charity of his Masonic brethren, and there 
he died. 

No man had higher natural talents; these properly culti- 
vated, directed and sustained by moral principle, would 
have made him any where, a first-rate man. As it was, 
early vicious association and habits made him a free thinker, 
and gave a loose rein to his appetites and passions, and 
when to this was added a continual growing and increasing 
propensity to drink, it is not wonderful that he did not 
live out half of his days, and that his life was closed in 
poverty and suffering. 

James Caldwell, Esq., was elected in December, 1807, 
Sheriff of Newberry in the place of Sheriff Waters; he 
entered on his duties in February, 1808. He never lived 
in the village; the active duties of his office were devolved 
on his deputies, James Farnandis and William Caldwell. I 
shall have, I hope, hereafter, better means of doing justice 
to the memory of this good man, who bore upon his face 
the marks of Cowpen's well-fought field, and therefore for 
the present I will pass him by. 

James Farnandis was a native of Union District, and 
came to Newberry about 1805; he was first employed as 



ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 95 

the deputy of Major Frederick Nance, then the Clerk of 
Newberry. He was one of the deputies of Sheriff Caldwell, 
and had charge of the books. His accuracy was then as 
manifest, as it subsequently became well known. He married 
Sarah, the daughter of John Johnston, about 1810. In 
1815, he was elected the Ordinary of Newberry, and set 
about the Herculean task of arranging the papers, and 
settling on just principles the accounts of the executors, 
administrators and guardians, who were accountable to his 
jurisdiction. /"He laid the foundations of that system, which 
has, under the successive administration of Cureton, Wilson, 
Boyd and Lake made the Ordinary's office, what it ought 
to be, the certain security of, and means of redress, for 
widows, orphans, and creditors. I know perfectly well that 
few men possessed the intelligence or the energy which was 
necessary to bring order and right out of the chaotic con- 
fusion which then pervaded the Ordinary's office; yet Mr. 
Farnandis, in less than three years, accomplished that task; 
he resigned in 1818, and was temporarily succeeded by 
Robert R. Nance. Thomas T. Cureton was, however, elected 
in 1819. Mr. Farnandis from 1812 till 1824 lived about a 
mile from the village, on the Higgin's ferry road.* From 
1824, to his removal to Mississippi, in 1838, he occupied 

* At or near this place once lived James Daugherty. He was a char- 
acter, and if I could transfer him to paper, it would well repay that 
trouble; but the hope is vain ! He was an Irishman; he always kept bar, 
as it was called, for Major Nance, in time of court; that is he sold spirits 
for cash; he never gave change; he always made it his rule that the 
change should be taken in drink. He was also the Sexton of the burying 
ground of Friends at Bush River. He dug a grave for a female acquaint- 
ance; by mistake, he put the head, where the feet should have been. Her 
sister complained and, said "Jamie, how could thee serve her so?" 
"Done it on purpose: she never was like any body else, if you were to 
die, I'll dig your grave cross ways," was the reply. He was a thriving 
farmer, always had corn to sell or give away: a poor man, Robin Perkins, 
came to Jamie for a grist; it was freely given, and while shelling it, dinner 
came on; Robin was invited in to take "pot luck." When seated, he said 
to Jamie, "May I say grace ?" "Yes, say grace, poor soul." He began 
and continued, until Jamie's stock of patience was exhausted; he broke 
in upon Robin's lengthened petitions, by saying, "Hoot toot, man cut it 
short !'• Jamie's wit and love of liquor brought him to poverty before 
life closed. He died an old man, full of years, near to the plantation of 
liis friend, John Kelly. 



96 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

aad kept the biick hote^, of which he was pa '. o\. ae". 
He was also a meichanfc for inony years, associated tirst 
wiuh Y. J. Ha 'ingiou. Thej boi't in 1(S15, the brick store 
house, where Mr. Kobe'^t Stewa'-t has for many years suc- 
cess "ally foUowed the same business. He was afterwards 
associated in business with Y. J. Haivington, Ei^t Ha. rington 
and Alexander Chambers. Mv. Farnandis was one of the 
best farmers in Newberry District; he cultivated less to the 
hand than most persons, but his plantation Jooked more 
like a garden than corn and cotton grounds. He deserves 
to be noticed, too, as a slave owner. His ne^raes were 
we'1-housed, well-clothed, well-fed, never ove.'-worked, and 
whenever an overseer exercised any crugliy on his people, 
he was instantly dismissed. When he removed to Mississippi, 
his slaves were ready to, and some of them did, abandon 
wives and child :en, (of their own will) rather than be sold, 
left here, and thus be separated from their master. This 
is as it should be. I would have every Southern planter 
like him, and then, indeed, might we say to Abo'ition 
vacating "Cea^e vipers, you bite a file." Mr. Farnandis 
died in Mississippi about 1843; he left his wife and five 
\ildren, to wit: Caroline, John, Henry, Mary aad Sarah, 
suiviving him. 

M '. Farnandis was a firm, unflinching man; he looked 
neither to the riglifc hand nor to the left in the discharge 
of duty. He was a zealous and devoted fiend; he bore 
suffering and misforaine with more uncomplaining foiiitude 
than belongs to most men; he was an honest, just man, 
who loved and practiced troth and sincerity. He became a 
Campbellite Baptist befort his death; and whether there be 
error or not in that fo-^m of faith, it is not for me, either 
noiv to discuss or praise. Of one thing I am certain, from 
my knowlecige of Mr. Farnandis, that he fiim'y believed 
his profession to be right, and that he ^s now in the 
blessed company, whose robes have been washed and made 
clean in the blood of the Lamb ! 



No. 8 Continued. 
William Caldwell, son of James, (better known as Long 



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Billy) was one of the deputies of his father, from 180S to 
1812; he married first the only child of Col. Jas. Creswell, 
deceased. His second wife was the interesting and intelligent 
lady, Harriet McDowell. He was the captain • commanding 
the company of cavalry belonging to Col. Tuckers command 
in the Camp Alston expedition of 1814. Often have I 
looked upon him, at the head of his well mounted, well- 
uniformed troop, and have heard his stentorian voice, com- 
manding a charge, and in imagination have contrasted him 
with. Kleber, who, like him, was heard higher than his 
fellow men, and concluded, if the times had served, his 
sabre would have led, and pointed many a column to 
victory. He was elected in 1816, Sheriff of Newberry, and 
continued in office till February, 1820. He died in 1825;* 
his second wife survived him; he left two sons by his first 
marriage, James and "William. No more noble and generous 
man ever lived. 

The Hon. Ker Boyce mentioned in No. 8, as one of the 
citizens of the then village, now town of Newberry, has since 
fulfilled his course and been gathered to his fathers, after a 
life of honor and usefulness, and it is uo-\v altogether proper 
that the surviving friends of his youth, manhood and age, 
should give some fuller account of him. He was born 8th of 
April, 1787, in that portion of Newberry now called Mollohon; 
he was the fifth son of John Boyce and Elizabeth Miller his wife. 

His father was an industrious, thriving Presbyterian Irish- 
man. His sons were taught to live as he did, "whatever his 
hands found to do, to do it with his might." 

The consequence was that they all began with little, but 
that little soon became much. 

Ker Boyce was the clerk, in his commencement, with the 
late John McMorries. He delighted in recurring to this 
period of his life, and narrating the many laughable circum- 
stances in which he then bore a part. The impossibility of 
transferring to paper his mirth-loving and mirth-moving 
anecdotes, as he was in the habit of narrating them, prevents 
the attempt. 

He subsequently settled at Newberry, where he played 
deputy Sheriff for a time, and took part in everything calcu- 
lated to prodiic? fun. Many were the j^redictions that such a 
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mischievous chap, as he was, would uever be of any account. 

But such j^rophecies were soon shown to be altogether wild. 

In 1814 he bought the square lying between Adams and 
Caldwell and Friend and Pratt Streets, in the town of New- 
berry, from his future father-in-law, Mr. John Johnston, with 
his stock of merchandise in the store which he then occupied. 
This was, as people supposed, the finishing blow for the '"mad 
cap,^^ Ker Boyce. An old store, and ruin for a young 
merchant are regarded as synonymous. But here again they 
were at fault. Mr. Boyce soon shewed that he knew perfectly 
well what he was about. His business prospered daily. 

In December, 1812, he was elected the Tax Collector of 
Newberry by the Legislature. His description of his election- 
eering by fun and wit would be worth preserving, but it can 
not be fully done. One of his opponents had secured, as was 
supposed, the interest of a leading and excellent member from 
Greenville, Philemon Bradford. Mr. Boyce boarded at the 
same hotel and slept in the large room, where Mr. Bradford 
and his colleagues also slept. Mr. Boyce insisted he must 
sleep with Mr. Bradford, it was conceded, and by his atten- 
tions, wit, and good sense, he so won upon him that in a few 
days, noticing his (Boyce's) opponent mixing his morning 
toddy, he said to him "you drink too much, I can not vote 
for you, I intend to vote for my yoimg friend Boyce." Was 
not that a good temperance lecture for 1812? How many 
members of the Legislature of 1854-5 will do so likewise? 

Mr. Boyce, finding the duties of his office inconsistent with 
his mercantile interests, resigned in 1814. 

In the year 1813 he began to trade, overland, with Phila- 
delphia. Cotton was hauled from Newberry and goods brought 
back by wagons. He and the late Thomas Pratt annually 
mounted their horses and rode to Philadelphia, purchased 
their goods, and each thus laid the foundation of their 
respective fortunes. 

In 1815 they visited Amelia Island on horseback, purchased 
a stock of goods, which they understood was there for sale, 
and transported it to Newberry by wagons. 

In this year, perhaps June, he married his first wife, Miss 
Nancy Johnston, the third daughter of Mr. John Johnsrton. 
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In 1817. finding Newberry to be too narrow a field for his 
enterprise, he and his brother-in-law, Samuel Johnston, formed 
a copartnership, and commenced business in King Street. 
Charleston. Svibsequently, they transferred their business to 
the Bay and became factors and commission merchants. Mr. 
Johnston was the most perfect man of business Avith whom 1 
ever was acquainted; this added to an excellent judgment of 
his own as well as his partner's, with the latter's tireless 
energy ■ and activity, made the firm certain of success, and 
accordingly they realized large profits. But the hand of death 
was on Mr. Johnston; he never had fully recovered from a 
mismanaged attack of bilious fever, in Caswell County, North 
Carolina, in 181"). Consumption exhibited itself, and remorse- 
lessly hunted him down. Before his death, Mr. Henry was 
associated with them: the firm at his death, I presume in 
1822, stood Boyce, Johnston & Henry. Here the writer may 
l)e indulged in dropping a tear on the tomb of Samuel John- 
ston, Jr., and saying he was good, virtuous and worthy of a 
friendship, which never was broken. 

In 1823, Mr. Boyce sustained the first great mis-fortune of 
his life, his never enough admired lady died at the house of 
his brother-in-law, James Farnandis, Esq., and she sleeps the 
sleep which knows no waking, in the town graveyard of 
Newberry. Their children, John, Samuel and Mary, now the 
wife of Wm. Lane, of New York, survived her. 

In 1825, was one of the great commercial revulsions, which 
South Carolina has again and again experienced. Mr. Boyce, 
on that occasion, trembled in the balance; nothing saved him 
from ruin, but the assets of his deceased partner, Johnston. 
He and Mr. Boyce had realized about $50,000; this sum was 
in Mr. Boyce' s hands as surviving partner. He put the whole 
of it in requisition to save himself from ruin. Then it was, 
that the friendship of the late Mr. Blackwood, President of 
the Planters & Mechanic's Bank, stood him in great stead. 
He had observed Boyce's previous great industry, and when 
he thought, notwithstanding the assets of Mr. Johnston, he 
must fail, Mr. Blackwood said to him, he could have funds, 
to any extent he needed, from the Bank over which he 
presided. This carried him through. 

In, I think, 1826, he had the singular good fortune to 

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replace the wife which he had lost, by her sister, equally 
lovely, Amanda Caroline, the sixth daughter of Mr. John 
Johnston. Mr. Boyce continued most successfully in the firm, 
first of Boyce & Henry, and then of Boyce, Henry & Walter. 

In 1830 began the great Nullification struggle. Mr. Boyce 
was, / knoic, opposed to this dangerous experiment; but, like 
many other good men, he was forced by circumstances into 
the ranks of that party, who for years pressed upon South 
Carolina the fearful issue of a contest, either with the General 
Government or between the hostile parties of the State. 

When the late Wm. Aiken was unfortunately killed, in 
March, 1831, the question was debated by the Union party of 
Charleston, who should be his successor, as a representative 
from Charleston. The writer was deputed to wait on Mr. 
Boyce, ascertain his sentiments, and he was told, if you can 
vouch for him he will be nominated. This was done, in both 
respects, and yet the Union party, by some strange fatality, 
nominated another. Gen. Hamilton was too good a tactician to 
suffer such a blunder to pass unimproved; he fastened upon 
Mr. Boyce, and with great adroitness, drew him in to go 
with him and his party, without, as he assured him, requiring 
any sacrifice of principle. 

This blunder of the Union party secured the triumph of 
Nullification. For Mr. Boyce's many business friends scattered 
all over the State took very much his lead. 

Although the writer and Mr. Boyce were, by his siding 
with Nullification, phiced in opposite political ranks, yet it 
never disturbed their friendship. 

When the Bank of Charleston was chartered Mr. Boyce 
secured a large amount of the stock, and in so doing realized 
a great deal of money. 

In 1837 occurred another great commercial revulsion. In 
it Mr. Boyce was supposed to be much shaken. After it 
passed over, he told the writer that "he had to pay $180,000 
for his friends and customers; but" said he, "I was taught a 
lesson in 1825, for no man was I liable who was not in 
visible property worth more than my liability for htm." To 
meet this payment he had to sell a large amount of Charleston 
Bank stock, I think he said not less than $150,000. This he 
then thought a great misfortune, but it was directly to the 



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contrary. For he sold at a great advance, and in a short 
time the stock receded below par. 

Mr. Boyce was concerned in the greatest improvements of 
the city. The Charleston Hotel and the Hayne-street buildings 
are mainly to be ascribed to him. 

After the risk which he ran in 1837, he determined to 
retire from the factorage and commission business, which he 
accordingly did, and devoted himself to other sources of 
increasing his great wealth. For the last seventeen years of 
his life, whatever he touched seemed to realize the fabulous 
account of becoming gold. 

He was President of the Charleston Bank for several years, 
and Senator for St. Phillip's and St. Michael's for at least 
two terms. 

Between 1836 and 1840 he lost his second wife; no purer 
Christian, no better wife and mother ever de.scended to the 
grave. Mr. Boyce felt the loss was irreparable. He never 
married again. She left five children, the Rev. James P. 
Boyce, Nancy, the wife of Mr. Tupper, Rebecca, the wife of 
Mr. Burckmeyer, Ker and Elizabeth. 

Mr. Boyce's eldest son John died in Florida about '48; his 
other children still survive. 

For many years Mr. Boyce was a private citizen; his family 
and his estate demanded and received all his attention. 

He died at the house of his son, the Rev. James P. Boyce. 
in Columbia, 19th March, 1854, having nearly completed his 
67th year. 

He made no profession of religion, although he attended 
regularly worship at the First Baptist Church of Charleston, of 
which his second wife was a member, and of which his son. 
the Rev. James P. Boyce, and several of his other children 
were subsequently members. 

Mr. Boyce, though no professor, felt, I have no doubt, the 
power of religion in his heart. He was a perfectly moral 
man. If he ever swore it has escaped the recollection of the 
writer. He was habitually temperate; when others drank to 
excess, and it was considered no disgrace, he was sober. He 
was for many years a member of the Charleston Total Absti- 
nence Society. 

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102 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

ho -svas scnipulously honest iiiul pmictaial; lie alw.ns demanded 
his own; if ho over was guilty of a moan thing, it is a matter 
which to mo, who know liim bettor tlian most, men, is 
unknown. 

He was an ardent and devoted friend. This is not mere 
praise, it is a justice, Avhich many of his former friends in 
Newberry if now alive would vouch, as well as does the writer. 
One distinguished man in South Carolina was saved by him 
from utter ruin. It is true he was prudent in succoring his 
friends; he could and did say "no" at the proper time. 

In the circle of his family my opiiortunity of observing 
him enables mo to say he was the kindest of husbands and 
fathers. His wife and children mot and enjoyed him as their 
best friend and comininion. 

At liis death he loft an immense estate, })robably reaching 
to near two millions. Out of it he devoted $50,000 to charit- 
able education, and if he had been spared a few days longer, 
it is believed he would have boon the liberal and venerated 
l>atron of the Furman University. But God, who sees not as 
num sees, called him from earth, and loft to his noble-minded 
son, tlie Ilev. James P. Boyce, to pour out his wealth upon 
the cherished institution of his denomination. 

The death of such a man is necessarily to be mourned by 
those who loved or laiow him; and yet standing by his tomb 
we are consoled by reflecting that ho lived long, well, and 
prosperously, and hoping that he is now enjoying more than 
this Avorld could ever give. 

Thomas Taylor Ciiroton was elected Sheriil' in ISl'i; he, 
therefore, succeeded James Caldwell, and preceded William 
Caldwell. Mr. Cureton was, I think, a native of Virginia; 
his mother Hannah's maiden name was Thwoatt; she was the 
sister of John Thwoatt, herein before spoken of. She was 
from 1804 a very infirm widow. The principal care of her 
and her daughters devolved upon Thomas T. Cureton, and 
certainly no son and brother ever discharged his duty better. 
He was the clerk of Hugh O'Noall in 1807; he was subse- 
quently in the employment of Elisha Hammond, who carried 
on the mercantile biisinoss at Stoi^oy Battery; he purchased 
out his stock and carried on the business on his own account 
afterwards. He was elected major of the upper batallion of 



ANNALS OF XEWBERRY. 103 

the now 39th regiment, in 1810. When elected Sheriff, it 
was very much against the predilection of the villagers, who 
jtreferred Jarnes McMorries, Es<j. Major Cureton was remark- 
f'lble for his easy good nature. It was therefore predicted by 
almost every one that he would Ix; ruined by his office. But he 
employed Anderson Crenshaw, Esq., late Chancellor Crenshaw, 
of Alabama, and he went through his office by his advice, 
and therefore without loss. He resigned his commission as 
major, when he removed to Laurens, about 1817; he was 
ap]X)inted by General Tucker, Deputy Assistant Inspector 
General of the 9th brigade. He returned to Xewberrv', and 
was elected January, 1819, Ordinary of Newberry District, 
and continued in office till 1827, when he resigned, removed 
to Georgia, and soon afterwards died. He resigned his brigade 
staff appointment in 1819. He married soon after he was 
elected Sheriff, Marj' Manning, the youngest daughter of Levi 
Manning, one of the first County Court Judges. He left 
several children. Major Cureton for many years before his 
death was a member of the Methodist Church. He was an 
honest, conscientious, good man: he wrote a good hand, and 
understood accounts and book-keeping very well. He dis- 
charged with scrupulous exactness and fidelity the duties of 
his offices, when left to himself: his want of self-reliance 
sometimes made him yield too ready an ear to designing meru 
An in.stance of this kind occurred in the administration of 
Robert Cates, (deceased.) and had it not been for a plainly 
mistaken judgment of the Court of Appeals, would have 
injured him seriously. Their mistake saved a good man from 
heavy loss; as the opinion has never been published, and the 
error is not likely to Vjo perpetuated as a matter of law, it 
may very well be classed as one of those chances where good 
comes out of wrong. Major Cureton lived in the house now 
owned and occupied by Major J. B. McMorries. 

John S. Carwij^e. — The death of this really good man has 
made a great void in the social circle in which he lived and 
moved. To the writer he was as an elder brother, and as 
sucli he mourns him, l)ut not with a grief which cannot be 
comforted For in its midst he feels constantly that he is 
now an angel of light, life and glory. 

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104 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

of the Revolution, who lived to the screat ajre of more than 
90 years. He was born on the 17th day of February, Anno 
Domini 1786. in Laurens District. His early life was spent 
in laborious occupations; still he managed to obtain a good 
English education. Few men wrote a better hand or had a 
more perfect knowledge of figures. He taught school in the 
Pitt's settlement, Newberry District, for many years. He 
married on the 20th day of December, 1809, Elizabeth 
Williams, his amiable and excellent lady, who preceded him 
to the tomb. They raised seven children, Mary, now the wife 
of Dr. Richard C. Griffin, Zachariah Carwile, Sarah, now the 
wife of Hillary Gary, John B. Carwile, Richard C. Carwile, 
Elizabeth and Caroline. Their eldest child, Stephen, a most 
interesting boy, died when young, to the great grief of his 
father, who had intended him to be trained for the profession 
of the law by his friend who now drops a tear on his tomb. 
Richard, mentioned above, was among the patriotic youths 
who composed company L, and, under the command of Captain 
(now General) Williams, marched to Mexico, and there perished 
from disease. This was the source of great and just grief to 
the parents, but in his excellent life they had their greatest 
consolation. To their other children, good, amiable and affec- 
tionate, they could, and did. turn with the feeling that God 
had further greatly blessed them. On the 9th of November, 
1811, John S. Carwile was received as a member of the Bush 
River Baptist Church. 

In December, 1815, John S. Carwile was elected by the 
Legislatura Tax Collector of Newberry District. He was one 
of the party who, retiirning from Columbia, was present 
when Dr. Ivy Finch was killed by his horse running away 
witli him at the forks of the rond in Butcher town. All of 
that party of ten .are now, with the exception of one, in the 
silent grave. 

In January. 1820, ho was elected SheriiT of Newberry Dis- 
trict, and entered on his duties in February of that year, and 
served out his term of four years. In 1828 he was re-elected 
Sheriff and served another full term. The writer has had 
occasion to notice carefully for thirty-eight years, the manner 
in which Sheriffs in the State have and still do perform their 
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105 



the best Sheriff who has ever come under his observation. 
His books are in the Sheriff's office at Newberry, and they 
are worthy of any counting-house in the State. Every trans- 
action in his sheriffalties can be traced without difficulty. He 
never used the money of a party; he never was told to collect 
any money and failed to do it. If he chose to befriend a 
debtor, he paid the money to the creditor, and thus was both 
kind and just. He was never ruled save to settle questions 
of contested right. The writer recollects, while he was at the 
Bar, he had occasion to say, "Mr. Carwile, I must rule 
you in the case of A vs. C D." Nothing ever before or since 
excited an angry feeling on his part towards the writer. But 
it required "a soft answer" on that occasion to satisfy him; 
he had to be told it was merely a rule to settle who was 
entitled to the money. 

On the 11th of October, 1817, he succeeded Stephen McCraw 
as the Clerk of the Bush River Baptist Church. This office 
he retained until the 11th of October, 1829, when he resigned, 
and was succeeded by Gen. John K. Griffin. On the 6th of 
October, 1831, he and James Diwer were dismissed from the 
Bush River Baptist Church to become the founders of the 
Newberry Baptist Church, which was about being gathered 
and constituted out of the converts in the great revival of 
September, 1831. Having been a Deacon in the Bush River 
Baptist Church, he became also Deacon in the Newberry 
Baptist Church. In this church he was appointed, and' con- 
tinued to be the Clerk, until about a year before his death, 
when his feeble health caused his resignation. 

He was for many years a delegate, first from Bush River, 
and then from Newberry, to the Association. He was also for 
many years the Clerk of the Association. The Circular of 
1844, on "the daily reading of the Scriptures," was prepared 
by him. It is a short, simple, but beautiful expose of a 
Christian's thoughts on this interesting subject. The various 
duties he performed with a zeal and fidelity never surpassed. 

After he ceased to be the Sheriff he became the assistant 
of his brother and friend, Y. J. Harrington, as Clerk and 
Register of Newberry. This office he filled to November, 1850, 
when he was called to follow the remains of his friend to his 
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Governor, Clerk jno tempore. He steadily refused to be a 
candidate for the vacant office. In discharging his duties as 
Assistant Clerk, and Clerk pro tempore, it is but justice to 
say he was fully equal to his friend, Y. J. Harrington, who 
was ''^pritnus inter pares." 

Mr. Carwile was a member of tlie Board of Commissioners 
of Free Schools for Newberry District for many years, and 
was Clerk and Treasurer. He introduced the rule that teachers 
should keeji a day-book, in which should appear the exact 
time in which the poor children of the district attended school. 
None save the poor had the benefit of the Free School Fund. 

In 1830 he l)ecame a member of the Newberry Baptist 
Bible Society, and its Treasurer and Secretary. For fifteen 
years, without money and without price, he discharged the 
duties of that office. In every })art, at every meeting, as the 
Society traveled over the district, he was seen alongside of 
his friend and brother, the President. At length disease 
compelled him, in 1851, to vacate the office. 

Mr. Carwile was executor, administrator, guardian, and 
trustee in many, very many, instances. Under his management 
every thing was done right and exactly as it should be. 
Hence no one ever complained or thought hard of him in the 
discharge of his delicate trusts. 

He became a teetotaller many years before his death, and 
no man was more sincere or devoted. He was a member o f 
the Newberry Agricultural Society; and to him we are indebted 
for the recipe which relieved us and the country from SDiiif 
in wheat. 

For forty-one years he was a memljer of the Baptist Church. 
None ever lived a more consistent and orderly life. He was 
a noble, firm, self-sacrificing Christian, "full of mercy and 
good fruits." The place where he and his brother, Y. J. 
Harrington, formerly sat in the house of worship belonging to 
the Baptists at Newberry, is noAV entirely vacant. Ko one 
ever occupies it. And the eyes of the members, as they fall 
upon it, see the fulfilment of the Scriptures, "the place which 
once knew them shall know them no more forever." 

In all the relations of life he was faultless; as a citizen, 
no duty was ever demanded of him that he was not ready to 
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aged parent experienced fully bis grateful attentions; as a 
husband, father and master, he was among the kindest. His 
now deserted home has been moistened by the tears of friend- 
ship, filial affection, and servile attachment. Few and far 
between are the visits of such men to earth. 

He was of medium size, hair black, his eyes dark hazel, 
nose Roman, features regular, mouth and chin well formed. 
His temper was originally quick, liut he had it completely 
under his control. His disposition was a lively, cheerful one; 
he loved society and partook fully in the pleasures of friend- 
shij). In his family circle he had great delight; his children 
were to him in his widowed state his greatest solace. 

Ill health, which had often admonished him, ''be ready,*' 
confined him to his chamber for several months, until Monday, 
the 8th ultimo, when, after much suffering, his pure spirit was 
released from its tenement of clay, and, on wings of faith, 
flew away, and is at rest. 

"Far from affliction, toil and care, 

That bapp}' eoul is Hed, 
Tbe breathless clay sball slumber bere, 

Among the silent dead ! 
Now he resides where Jesus is, 
Above this changeful sphere, 
The soul was ripened for that bliss, 
While yet be sojourned here." 

In 1824 Col. Samuel Cannon was elected Sheriff. This 
clever and good man was descended from the earliest settlers 
of Newberry. The creek near which he was born, raised and 
died, was called after one of his ancestors ''Cannon's Creek." 
He was a major in Col. Tucker's regiment, which marched 
in 1814 to Camp Alston, between "Garden's Corner and 
Pocotaligo"' in Beaufort District. He was one of the court 
consisting of all the officers of the regiment, who advised Col. 
Tucker to disobey the Governor's (Alston's) order to detail 
two companies to throw up, under Col. Youngblood's direction, 
as engineer, a tete da pont on Port Royal Island. On his 
return from that senseless campaign of six weeks, he j)artici- 
pated largely in the popularity of the colonel, who was 
blessed by the men as having, at great personal hazard, 
relieved them from a position where military defence was 
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but where many a cypress would have been nurtured to weep 
over soldier's graves by the malaria of swamps and rice fields. 
He was soon after his return made the colonel of the 8th, 
now the 39th regiment. He was elected to the House of 
Representatives in December, 1816, and continued to be 
elected until October, 1822, when I think he was not a 
candidate. After the expiration of his term as Sheriff he was 
a private man. He died in '49, having passed beyond three 
score and ten, leaving numerous descendants, children and 
grand-children. He was a surveyor and teacher, and in these, 
as well as his more public capacities, he did his duty, and 
did it well. He was a member of the Methodist Church. 
He deserved the respect and confidence of his fellow-citizens. 
Robert Rutherford Nance, th') eldest son of Major Frederick 
Nance, was elected Sheriff in January, 1832; he resigned and 
removed to Alabama in 1835; he was born 2nd of November, 
] 795 ; he graduated in the South Carolina College in Decem- 
ber, 1813, in the class of which George McDufiie and John 
G. Creagh received the 1st and 2nd honors; he was principally 
engaged, until his marriage, in the mercantile business as 
a clerk in the firm of Pratt & Nance, in the house now 
occupied by Julius B. Smith. In 1817, he married Mary S. 
Pope, the second daughter of Capt. Sampson Pojie, of Edge- 
field. He then entered upon the business of a merchant, as a 
partner in the firm of which his father had been previously a 
member ! On the election of Judge O'Neall in August, 1817, 
to the command of the 8th, afterwards the 39th regiment, he 
was apjiointed by his early friend, fellow-student and room- 
mate in college, adjutant; he served until after the election 
of General Wright to the command of the 10th brigade; he 
was then appointed Deputy Assistant Inspector General in the 
place of T. T. Cureton, who had resigned upon his election 
to the Ordinary's office. This office he retained until about 
1825, when he resigned. On the resiornation of James 
Farnandis as Ordinary, in 1818, he was appointed by the 
Governor to fill the office x>^'^ ^^'"- ^intil a successor was 
elected by the people. The election resulted in favor of T. 
T. Cureton; if Maj. Nance had stood upon his legal rights, 
under the exposition given to the constitiition in the case of 
the State vs. AVm. M. Hutson, 1st M. C, 240, he would have 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 109 

beeu entitled to hold the office during good behaviour. But 
he knew he had in fact only been temporarily appointed, and 
therefore cheerfully pursued the right way, and yielded the 
office to his more popular rival. He was elected by the 
Legislature Tax Collector for Newberry, in the place of J. W. 
Tinsley, Esq., who resigned in 1824. This office he retained 
for two terms, and gave it up to become Sheriff of Newberry. 
In 1831 or '32 he became a convert to the truth, and united 
himself to the Baptist Church at Newberry. As has been 
already said, Mr. Nance removed to Alabama, in 1835. He 
found the Sheriff's office a barren field, for it had been 
thoroughly harvested and gleaned in the preceding sheriffalties. 
In his term there was little debt existing in the district, and 
therefore little to do in the Sheriff's line. He thought it was 
necessary to remove to provide better for his family: it icas a 
sad mistake. 

The duties of the offices which he had from time to time 
held were well, faithfully and honestly filled. He was an 
honest, intelligent, conscientious man, who "knowing the right, 
still the right pursued." He died in July, 1846, leaving his 
wife and six children surviving; two of his sons, Rutherford 
and Frederick Sampson, went out as volunteers in the war 
with Mexico, in the Newberry company, and were in the 
various battles of Contreras, Cherubusco, Chapultepec and the 
Garita de Belin, and returned unscathed to their mourning 
mother. 

One who knew Robert R. Nance as the writer of this sketch 
knew him may be pardoned in saying he deserved more than 
he ever obtained, irrosperity. No purer man ever lived, no 
better citizen could, in his day, have been found; no more sin- 
cere relative and friend has ever been known by me. As a 
husband and father, if he had a fault, it was that he was too 
kind, too indulgent. He icas a Christian, not known by jiro- 
fession merely, but by works — works evidencing the good, 
merciful and pious heart. 

He was succeeded by Reuben Pitts, and he by General H. H. 
Kinard, and he by his brother, John P. Kinard, and at this 
time the office is held for the second term by Gen. Kinard, 
who has thus been placed by the people alongside of Mr. 
Carwile, as worthy of being twice Sheriff of Newberry. These 



110 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

several gentlemen are still in the midst of life and usefulness.* 
It would therefore be im})roper that I should undertake to do 
more in reference to them than to say they have well and 
faithfully discharged all their public duties, and deserve well 
all the honors heretofore conferred upon them. That they 
each may live to adorn a long life by many, very many acts 
of virtue, usefulness, prosperity, and happiness, is the wish 
of a native citizen of N'ewben'ij. 

Having now run through the Sheriff's oflfice from 1797 to 
the present time, and intending hereafter as I may have the 
means, to give some account of the County Court Sheriffs from 
'85 to '97, I turn to the Clerk's office. I am unable to say 
ftoything more of the first Clerk, Wm. Malone, than that from 
the records; it appears that he did the duties of Clerk entirely 
by his deputies, and that, as is said by my worthy friend. Col. 
Benjamin Maybin, '"he was a w'orthy and respectable citizen." 
Of Major Nance, his successor, I have fully spoken. 

Young John Harrington, Esq., was the successor of Major 
Nance. Although several months have come and gone since 
the excellent man whose name is at the head of this para- 
graph was suddenly called away, it cannot be amiss or unin- 
structive to sketch imperfectly his life and character. He was 
born in Union District, on Thicketty Creek, on the 5th of 
April, 1784. He was the son of John Harrington, who died 
early; his mother, Frances, married Col. Robert Rutherford, of 
Newberry, in the year 1795, and with her family removed to 
his residence, nine miles below the town. 

His mother was a member of the Methodist Church, and 
remarkable for her many domestic virtues and exemplary piety. 
Her second husband, Col. Rutherford, performed a father's part 
in many respects to her children. His habits of industry led 
him to demand from his st€>p-children similar habits. Young 
John Jwre probably acquired much of that singular activity of 
character and devotion to business which was so conspicuous 
in his after life. The first cotton gin ever put in motion in 
Newberry belonged to Col. Rutherford; it was attended to by 
his step-son, Y''oung John. Often has the writer of this heard 
him describe the quantities of cotton brought to be ginned in 
small parcels. This demanded of him unceasing attention, and 

*Since this was written Mr. Pitts has been called to his Father's house. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. Ill 

hfire ha probably learned the useful lesson of life, to be accom- 
modating and agreeable to all. He was at one time put to 
learn the wagon making biisiness with one of the McClelands; 
he, kowever, remained there a very short time. 

He carhe to the village of Newberry in '99. It was then a 
place of only three or four houses. He was the clerk of Maj. 
Frederick Nance, who was the then Clerk of the Court, and a 
merchant in extensive business. Young John became the gen- 
eral manager of the store; his age then was a little more than 
fifteen. His devoted attention and activity claimed and received 
the entire confidence of his employer. While thus engaged he 
performed, on a wager made hy Major Nance and Benjamin 
Long, Esq., the then almost incredible feat of picking out 100 
lbs. of cotton from the pods in one day. 

He married early, probably in 1804-, his excellent lady, (now 
his mourning widow) Nancy Calmes; and settled permanently 
in the town of Newberry. 

Young and active and cheerful, they brought into life the 
combined qualities of energy and concert, which made their 
lives so siiccessful and useful. 

With his step-father he was associated in mercantile busi- 
ness; this ho followed successfully, till he was appointed Clerk 
in place of Major Frederick Nance, who resigned in 1807. 

This office he retained until a week before his death, in 
November, 1850. For forty-three years, therefore, he v/as Clerk; 
and if in that great period of near half a century he ever failed 
in the discharge of his duties, it is what never came within 
my knowledge. Indeed, he was a pa^ferjt Clerk, worthy of 
imitation in everything. Kind, attentive, well informed and 
intelligent, he was equal to every duty arising in the correct 
administration of the complicated affairs of his office. He wrote 
a good hand, — he wrote with great facility and accuracy; hence 
the ministerial business of his office was most correctly carried 
out. He was often called on as Clerk, or as ex-officio, a Com- 
missioner of Special Bail, to decide legal questions; this he did 
with singular promptitude and accuracy for one not educated 
as a lawyer. 

In term time if a criminal wae to be arraigned, juries or wit- 
nesses to be sworn, there was no necessity to appeal to forms, 
or to be prompted through a stammering ungraceful performance 



112 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKT. 

of the duty demanded. It was done as well and gracefully 
as it could be done. The writer has seen every clerk in the 
State in the discharge of his duty, and never has he seen any 
one who could or did surpass Young John Harrington. 

He was a merchant for many years in the village of New- 
berry. The profits thus acquired, added to his other means, 
made him comparatively a wealthy man. 

^ In 1831 he with his wife was buried in the liquid grave 
with Christ his Saviour, and rose to newness of life as a Chris- 
tian. He w^as one of the members who composed the Newberry 
Baptist Church. With Thos. Pratt, he was ordained a deacon, 
and so continued till his death. No church member ever passed 
a more consistent life; always at his post, always ready to act 
in the discharge of any duty, well may the church mourn her 
loss. Indeed, it will be hard to make its members forget his 
well-remembered face and active form. Often does the eye 
falling on his vacant seat turn away in sadneai, and bedimmed 
with a tear, while the heart speaks "/le ?fas, and is not."' 

He was from a very early day a warm and devoted member 
of the Temperance Reform. He belonged to the Head Spring 
Temperance Society, and only ceased to be its President at the 
annual meeting preceding his death. 

He was sorely tried in the death of and removal of his 
children: his second son, his third and fourth daughters were 
called from their families to the bosom of their Father and 
God ! His eldest son and eldest daughter removed far from 
him. Still he bowed with imwavering meekness and humility 
to his mighty Master's will. He was still the same cheerful 
man he had ever been. He felt and wept, as a parent ever will 
— but as he looked upon his dying children, or clasped their 
orphan children to his bosom, he could only say of the dead 
as Kinw David did: ''I shall go to them, but they shall 
not return to me." 

The breaking, however, of these natural bond.s prepared 
him for the loosening of the "silver cord'' of life; — for 
some time he was strongly impressed Avith the belief that 
his days were numbered. He set about the i>reparation of 
his afPairs; "he set his house in order"; but before all 
earthly things were ready the dread mandate came. On 
the 11th of November, 1850, he was kept within his house 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 11 

by rain; in the evening he said he must visit the town; 
(his residence being within the corporate limits, but some 
distance from the business i:)art,) he accordingly rode over, 
— nothing unusual was remarked; he was cheerful and happy 
as usual; he failed to arrange the business which he desired — he 
returned home, ate his supper, conversed with his family, called 
them around the family altar, and poured out his soul before 
God. He retired to rest, and in a short hour ceased to be num- 
bered with the sons of men. A disease of the breast, called by 
physicians apoplexy of the lungs, with which he had been 
often threatened, came down upon him like an armed man and 
summoned him to his Master's presence. May we all be like 
him, ready for so sudden a summons. 

He left his affectionate wife and partner of his days, and 
seven children, to mourn their loss. Great indeed is it; but 
still to them it ought to be a constant consolation that lie has 
exchanged earth for heaven, trials for joys, tears for smiles, 
misery for happiness, and poor frail mortality for immortality. 

His character may be drawn in a few words. He was a 
good man, a good citizen, a good officer, a good husband, a 
good father, a good master, and a good friend. In all those 
relations he did his duty, and the tears shed over his grave, 
and the respect testified for his memory by all, both friends 
and foes, constitute the only eulogy necessary. On his tomb 
let it be written, "he lived to die, and he died to live forever 
and ever, in mansions of bliss." 



No. 8 Continued. 

Major Cureton was succeeded as Ordinary by Mr. William 
Wilson, a native of Edgefield District, long and advantageously 
known as a merchant before his election. As Ordinary he 
discharged the complicated duties of his office with unex- 
ampled fidelity and rare intelligence. Though not bred to 
the law, he soon possessed himself of the principles necessary 
to the adjudication of the difficult questions occurring iu his 
1 H 



114 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

forum, and certainly decided them with great correctness. 
He was one of the converts of the great Baptist revival at 
Newberry in 8831, and became a member of the Baptist 
Church. 

He died very suddenly, indeed almost instantaneously, in 
1845. His wife, Charlotte, the daughter of Francis Higgins, 
had preceded him by many years to the tomb. He left two 
children him surviving, James Wilson, of Spartanburg, and 
Sarah Anne, the wife of Burr Kamage, Esq. 

Mr. Wilson was rather a reserved man, and after the death 
of his wife excluded himself more from general society than 
is perhaps advisable. But as an officer and a man he deserved 
the confidence and respect of all who knew him. 

He was succeeded by Hugh K. Boyd, the present Ordinay, 
who had been the Tax Collector from 1830 to 1844. Of him, 
as of the surviving incumbents, NeAvberry has great cause to 
be proud, and in pointing to their officers and lives she may, 
like the mother of the Gracchi, say "these are my jewels."* 

The Commissioner's office (in equity) was first filled by 
F. B. Higgins, Esq., who graduated in the South Carolina 
College, December, 1813. He was elected December, 1817, 
and continued to December, 182G. Mr. Higgins is an attorney 
at law, and has filled many important public positions, in all 
of which he has received the unqualified approbation of all 
who have been called on to notice his course. Knowing 
him from childhood to the present hour, and having had much 
to do with him in most of the relations of life, I may, I 
trust, be permitted to add my testimony of his life, that it 
has been characterized by educated intelligence, undeviating 
honesty, purity of purpose and great usefulness. His second 
son, John C, was one of the yonng men who volunteered and 
served out his entire Mexican campaign, receiving only a 
slight wound in the various battles in which he was engaged; 
he went out a private, he returned a lieutenant. 

Mr. Higgins was succeeded by Drayton Nance, Esq., the 
second son of Major Frederick Nance, and a graduate of the 
college in the class of 1821. Mr. Nance is also an Attorney 
at Law. He declined a re-election in December, 1838. Mr. 
Naace has ever since chosen a pi'ivate instead of public life. 

* Mr. Boyd is now numbered with the dead. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 115 

With the single exception of the j)lace of director of the 
Greenville and Cohirnbia Rail Road Company, he has sedul- 
ously avoided public employment. To that great work he 
has, however, from the beginning given all his energies. 

Of Mr. Nance, who is yet comparatively a young man, it 
may be indelicate for one who has known him from his birth 
to undertake to speak of him as he deserves. He is a clear- 
headed, well-informed, virtuous, good man. He does not give 
to himself that sweep of })ublic usefulness which he could 
and will, I trust, yet do.* 

He was siicceeded by Tiiomas H. Pope, Esq., in December. 
1838; he resigned in 18-1:0; he is the eldest son of Captain 
Sarap.son Pope; he also is a lawyer of extensive practice and 
well known reputation. He has served one term in the Legis- 
lature. He pos.sesses a clear head and an honest heart, and is, 
I trust, to be long an useful man and virtuous citizen. f The 
present incumbent, Lambert J. Jones, succeeded him. He is 
the son of Elijah Jones, once the clerk of Hugh O'Neall, on 
Bush River, and afterwards well known as a man of business, 
for the few years he lived. He died young, and left two 
children, Whitfield B. and Lambert J., who were infants. 

Mr. Jones is a graduate of Brown University Rhode Island. 
He is a lawyer of growing practice and repvitation. By the 
energy which he has displayed in overcoming the difficulties 
of his early life, there is much to hope from the future. 
Glad shall I be to see him favored by length of days, virtuous 
and honored prosperity. 

Of the Tax Collectors of Newberry, several have been 
already mentioned. After the resignation or death of Charles 
Crenshaw, in 181'2, Ezekiah Eastland, under a pro tern. 
appointment, discharged the duties of the office. He was 
the son of Thomas Eastland, of Little River, and was a 
member and Deacon of the Bush River Baptist Church. 
He was a man much prized by his friends and associates 
for the many sterling qualities which he possessed. He 
lived a short time in the village; he removed to Tennessee 
or North Alabama about 1818. 



* In September, 1856, Drayton Nance was cut off by apoplexy. 

t Vain was the hope, for in February, 1857, Mr. Popo ceased to be 
numbered among the sons of men ! 



lie ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

After Mr. Boyce resigned in 1815, George Dngan held 
the temporary appointment. He was a son of Col. Thomas 
Dugan; he afterwards did business as the clerk of Boyce & 
Harrington, and Birt Harrington & Co., and was subsequenly 
the partner of Birt Harrington in the firm Harrington & 
Dugan. He lived many years in the village and was an 
universal favorite. He died iinmarried about 1827 or 1828. 
Recalling him to memory: he stands before mo, the friend 
oi my youth, rejoicing in hopes never realized. He seemed 
to deserve length and hap})iness of days; but God who 
knows all things, and orders all things for the best, called 
him home early. 

Major James W. Tinsley succeeded John S. Carwile as 
the Tax Collector. This gentleman was the son of James 
Tinsley, one of the few AVhigs spared at the massacre at 
Hay's Station, and a grandson of old King's Mountain 
Jim, (Col. James Williams.) He was a soldier in the Avar 
of 1812, and was the sergeant of the company enlisted 
and commanded by Major George Butler. He was elected 
major of the 38th regiment, commanded then by General 
John K. Griffin. A most ungenerous charge made against 
him by a personal enemy of embezzlement of the public 
funds, supported by an appearance of truth, arising out of 
slight neglects, drove him to the verge of madness, and 
certainly was the means of cutting short the life of his 
amiable lady, and finally led to his resignation soon after 
enteriniT on his second term in 1824. The writer settled 
Major Tinsley's accounts as Tax Collector in the Treasury 
at Columbia, and it is due to his memory that he should 
state here what he did then, that there was not the slightest 
foundation to believe that there was any wilful or corrupt 
default. He had as acts of favor to the people frequently 
received taxes when his books were not present, and in 
some instances of small amounts had mislayed the memo- 
randa or foi'gotton to enter them on his books. The whole 
<]eticit, after being subject to the scrutiny of a )iiaJice ivhicli 
never tired, did not amount to $100. 

Major Tinsley remained in Newberry a feAV yea's, married 
a second time, removed to Georgia, and there became a 
man of wealth and considerable distinction. He died in 1840. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 117 

Alexander Chambers succeeded Robert R. Nance as Tax 
Collector in '82, and continued till December, 1836. This 
gentleman was of the mercantile firm herein before mentioned 
in the sketch of the life of James Farnandis. He lived in 
the village of Newberry for many years. He lives now in 
the State of Alabama. Good, honest, just and true in all 
the relations of life, may, and ought to be written on the 
stone which will not, I hope, for many years be placed 
over his mortal remains. 

Of James Bonds, who succeeded H. K. Boyd as Tax 
Collector, and Jacob Kibler, the present incumbent, it need 
only be said that they have walked in the steps of their 
predecessors; they have in every respect shown themselves 
worthy public servants. Having now closed a review of the 
public officers of Newberry District, the uniform plaudit of 
"well done" which has accompanied each and all, may seem 
to strangers like indiscriminate praise, but it is not. Noth- 
ng has been awarded which was not merited. Well may 
Newberry challenge comparison Avith her sisters in the State, 
and sav "shew me such a body of men as the local officers 
of whom sketches have been herein given, and I will give 
place, but not till then." 

Much, however, still remains to do justice to the village 
and its inhabitants. I shall speak of a few of the old 
inhabitants who have not as yet been noticed before. I 
briefly notice the resident attorneys and physicians, past 
and present. 

Mr. John Johnston (the father of Chancellor Johnston) 
came to Newberry about the year 1806. I first remember 
business being carried on by him and a gentleman of the 
name of Bones,* in the house occupying then the present 
site of Steele's storehouse. Whether Mr. Johnston then 
lived in the village, I am not certain. The latter part of 
1806, or beginning of 1807, he and his family lived in the 
L house. Mr. Bones soon left the concern, and Mr. John- 
ston did business alone in the house where the brick hotel 
stands. He owned much of the land west of the creek 

* This gentleman was said to have been a major in the army of the 
Irish Patriots of '98, and like McCalla, owed his life to an escape more 
than mercy. 



118 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

now belonging to Judge O'Neall. Mr. Johnston was an 
Irishman, and like many others, began life poor and by 
industry closed it in wealth. The writer knew him well 
from 1815 to his final removal from Carolina, and has 
great reason to Fay he was a most kind, hospitable and 
crood man. He had a large family, for each of whom he 
amply provided. He removed to Alabama about 1840, and 
died there, in a few years afterwards full of years, being 
beyond four score. 

The first courthouse, when that which preceded the present 
was finished, was sold, and purchased by Kobert and John 
Boyce. and was by them removed and converted into a 
tavern. It stood east of the printing office, and was suc- 
cessively occupied by Robert and John Boyce, Nathaniel 
Durkie, Robert Boyce, Henry Stringfellow, Robert McCullough 
and others ! 

Robert Boyce was the eldest son of John Boyce spoken 
of in No. 0; he lived at Newberry from 1802 to 1810, 
when he removed to Charleston, and there died about 1838. 
He married Lydia Waters, the daughter of Philemon Waters, 
(commonly called Ferry Phil. ;) she was a most intelligent, 
Avell educated lady, energetic, and capable of managing any 
business; she well deserved, what she did not attain, a 
happy old age. She died in 1829 ! 

Mr. Boyce was a singiilarly cheerful, mirth-loving man. 
If he ever injured or wilfully pained another, it was not, 
I am sure, intended. He left two sons, John and William, 
him surviving; the latter is a highly promising lawyer of 
Fairfield."* John Boyce, the second son of John Boyce, was a 
more energetic man than his brother Robert: his disposition 
was, however, a stern, uncompromising one. "Whatever his 
hands found to do, he did it with his might," the conse- 
quence was, that he died one of the wealthiest citizens of 
Laurens District. 

Nathaniel Durkie I knew by sight, but had no acquaint- 
ance with him. He had the reputation of a speculating, 
failing tavern keeper. 

Henry Stringfellow, (called by the youngsters of Newberry, 
Old King Cole,) was a native of Chester. He lived at 

■■■■ William W. Boyce is now a member of Congress. 



ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 119 

Newberry from about 1811 to 1821. He was a kind-hearted, 
honest man. He removed to Alabama, and there died, 
leaving three children. Frances, "William and Thornton, him 
surviving. 

Robert McCullough succeeded him as the owner of the 
hotel. Mr. McCullough is still alive, and lives, I presume, 
still in Edgefield. His life and residence in our town was 
accompanied by many difficulties, but he passed through 
them all, bearing, and justly bearing, the reputation of an 
intelligent, industrious, virtuous man. 

Thomas Pratt came to Newberry as the clerk of Y. J. 
Harrington, in 1806. By patient, untiring industry and 
perseverance as a merchant, he became one of the wealthiest 
and best citizens of the town. 

He and Ker Boyce, during the difficult periods of the 
war in 1813 and 181-1, visited more than once Philadelphia, 
on horseback, laid in there their stocks of goods, and 
wagoned them overland to Newberry. So, too, they once 
paid a visit to Amelia Island, and there succeeded in pur- 
chasing goods, and in the same way transported them to 
Newberry. When the war ceased, he pursued the same 
business through the ordinary channels, to his death in 
1837. He married in i8l() the eldest daughter of Major 
Frederick Nance, the amiable and excellent lady now Mrs. 
Dorothy Brooks Pratt. He and she were converts of the 
great Baptist revival in 1831. Messrs. Harrington (Y. J.) 
and Pratt, were the first Deacons of, ordained and set 
apart as such, by the Newberry Baptist Church. He left' 
nine children, William, Robert, Simeon, Priestly, Amelia, 
Mary, Carolina, Virginia, Angelina, all of whom are still 
in our midst, except Priestly, who went out as a volunteer, 
and died in Mexico, at Puebla.* Sad, indeed, was his 
fate, and that of the other young men. Summers, Stewart 
Cole and Carwile, who left homes of ease and abundance, 
and died upon the fields of Mexico from that wasting 
disease which seldom released its hold upon its victims ! 
Home, parents, brothers, sisters and friends, were ever 
before their sick and failing eyes, never, alas, to be "in 
reality beheld." Often have I looked with a bleeding heart 

* Amelia has since died. 



120 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

upon the daguerrotype of Stewart, Pratt and Summers, 
taken in a group while in Augusta, on their way to Mexico. 
They stood together like brothers; two. Summers and Pratt, 
died in Puebla; Lieut. Stewart, after he had left the City 
of Mexico, on his return home. 

Thomas Pratt deserves a much fuller notice than even 
an intimate friend is able to give from memory. His 
modest worth never challenged observation; but still in every 
respect he deserves all which honesty, virtue, piety and 
intelligence can demand. 

William Pinchback, was one of the old inhabitants of 
Newberry. He built the corner house on Caldwell and 
Boyce Streets, now occupied by Mr. Bierfield as a hotel. 
Before he built upon it, the law office of Samuel Farrow, 
Esq., stood upon the corner. Mr. Pinchback came to New- 
berry from Chester, in, I presume, 1810 or 1811. He was 
a cabinet maker, and drove on an immensely profitable 
business in that line. He subsequently became a hotel 
keeper and merchant. He, like Pratt and Boyce, made one 
or more trips North, carrying out cotton and returning 
with merchandise. On one of his trips he brought back a 
large quantity of oil stones, which had been thrown out 
of the ditches cut at Baltimore to throw up the intronch- 
ments to protect the city from the invasion of the British, 
at the time Washington was burnt, in 1814. He was much 
laughed at about his cargo of Whetstones, but I have no 
doubt he made money thereby. 

He removed to Charleston and there did business as a 
cotton speculator, aid realized a fortune in 1825; he after- 
wards lived many years in Abbeville District, and there 
owned a large and valuable plantation. He finally removed 
to Mississijipi, and there died in 'IS, leaving neither wife 
nor children. His large estate descended to, and has been 
divided among his collaterals, ol whom our worthy townsman, 
John Holman, is one. 



No. 8 Continued. 

John B. Davidson, a native of Newberry, lived in the 
town of Newberrv from 1805 to his death in 1828. He 



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121 



was a house carpenter and joiner by trade, but he loved 
to play ^'gentleman of elegant leisure, and to sharpen his 
wits by grog'^ too well to succeed by work. Instead of 
supporting his wife, as is the duty of every man, he was 
supported by her. Mary Anne Davidson, by her needle, 
realized competence, and yet maintained a drinking husband. 
Many an incident in his life, spent in such a village as 
Newberry, afforded much merriment to the standers by of 
the time, and could I transfer them to paper, would make 
many a one clasp their sides to prevent bursting from the 
laugh which would attend their narration. This cannot, 
however, be done, and I beg to refer my readers to the 
22nd No. of the Drunkard's Looking Glass, pp. 170 and 
180-1, of the Permanent Temperance Documents, for a 
better summary of these matters than any which I can 
now give. 

Marmaduke Coate, the youngest son of John Coate, (little) 
lived in Newberry from 1812 to 1828. He was a surveyor 
of much experience and intelligence. He married Maiy 
Coate, the daughter of James Coate, of Edgefield, about 
1816, who died in 1827; he afterwards married Nancy 
Rotton, of Edgefield, and finally emigrated to Alabama, 
where I hope he still lives. He made the surveys of New- 
berry, Lexington and Richland, in 1820, under the authority 
of the Legislature, for the purpose of making an accurate 
map of the State. His surveys will be found in Mills' 
Atlas; they are remarkable for their fullness and accuracy; 
he built and occupied till 1829, the house now occupied 
by Mr. Seybt. 

Duke (as he was usually called,) from his youth was 
like Falstaff, not only full of humor himself, but the cause 
of mirth and humor in other people. 

This made him the boon companion of every idle man, 
in a village (ivhicli has been alivaj/s remarkable for the 
great criroxiragement it afforded to loafers;) the consequence 
was, he contracted habits of drink, which led on to neglect, 
and finally to ruin. 

No more honest and good-hearted man was ever an 
inhabitant of Newberry. It is sad to think of the ruin 
which has come down like a rolling; ^Yave from the storm- 



122 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 

stirred mighty deep up 3a maay sack a man. 

Lieut. Col. Birt Hirriagtoii loQg lived in the town of 
Newberry. Indeed he might have been said to have "grown 
with its growth, and strengthened with its strength." He 
was for a time clerk in a merchant's store; then he wrote 
in the Clerk's office; again he studied law; but all at last 
yielded to the better business which he long pursued at 
Newberry, that of a merchant. He married in 1819, Harriett, 
the third daughter of Samuel Johnston, of Farfield. He 
was successively the lieutenant and captain of the Newberry 
Artillery Company, the major and lieutenant colonel of the 
39th regiment. 

He reaiDvel to North Alabama about "SO, waera he still 
lives, and there I hope he is long to live, useful and 
happ3'. Newl)erry in him, as in many other instances, has 
to regret the loss of an excellent, intelligent man, from 
continual desire to change which has so long pervaded 
our communit}'. Indeed, Newberry District is to this State, 
Georgia, and the Western and Southwestern States a sort 
of Northern hive. Go where you will, yoa find a Neu'- 
berry man, everywhere such an one has made some impress 
on the society of which he is a member. 

Messrs. John Holm an and Robert Stewart are among the 
oldest surviving inhabitants of our flourishing town. They 
both have carved out for themselves the road to fortune. 
Both deserve everything which honesty, 2^P^''''6'^'^^''''^ce and 
virtue ought to expect. But they are in our midst, and of 
them there is no necessity for me to write. The same 
may be said, and deservedly said, of the younger men, 
John Coate. John B. McMorries, E. Y. McMorries,* Vincent 
B. Pope, Joseph Mooney and G. T. Scott, who may be 
classed among the next oldest inhabitants of the town. 

Hiram Hutchison, President of the Bank of Hamburg, and 
John I. Gracy, of Columbia, were merchants of Newberr}-. 
Mr. Hutchison. I think, began business at Newberry in 
1819, and Mr. Gracy in a short time afterwards. They 
both removed to Columbia about '28 or '29 Mr. Hutchison 
in 1881 sold out his stock as a merchant, and became the 
first Cashier of the Commercial Bank; he resigned that 

* E. Y. McMorries died suddenly of apoplexy in '54. 



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123: 



post and transferred his positioa to Cheraw, — there he was 
blessed by uniting to bis growing fortunes the amiable and 
accomplished lady, Miss Collins. He afterwards became 
Cashi r and finally President of the Bank of Hamburg; he 
lives now in Charleston a man of fortune. Long may he 
enjoy the fruits of his labors, which, directed by intelligence 
and perseverance, have so fully succeeded. Mr. Gracy has 
steadily pursued his business as a merchant, until now he 
is one of the first merchants in Columbia. He married 
the excellent lady, Miss Bratton, of Fairfield, but had the 
misfortune to be early callel upon to follow her to the 
grave; she left him, however, three little ones to receive 
his care. Mr. Gracy is one of the kindest and purest men 
with whom I have ever associated. It is gratifying to 
every just principle of our nature to see such a man pros- 
perous and happy. May his life be continued to an honored 
old age, and be crowned with every blessing.^'' 

Having thus sketched some of tho other inhabitants of 
Newberry, I nov/ propose to give some account of the 
lawyers who once were there. 

James McKibben, Esq., was at Newberry in 1S04, and 
here remained until 1811. He was a lawyer not remarka- 
ble for learning, but unquestionably possessed of very 
considerable abilities. He did not trim the midnight lamp, 
nor did he undergo the twenty years lucubrations which Sir- 
John Fortescue affirms to be necessary for a Judge; nor, 
indeed, even that commended by Justice Blackstone, in the 
introductory chapter to his first volume of the Commentaries^ 
and the perusal of which I would commend to my young 
friends of the Bar at Newberry and every where. 

Mr. McKibben was a member of the House of Kepre- 
sentatives from 1803 to 1810. He there acquired, and 
deservedly, the reputation of a very useful member. 

Indeed, his turn of mind was better calculated for delib-- 
erative assemblies than the rough and tumble of the Bar. 
In 1811 he removed to Union and there followed his 
profession. He was a candidate for Congress in 1814 and 
was defeated by AVilson Nesbit, Esq. In December of that 
year he Avas elected major of the brigade of State troops, 



* Mr. Hutchison died in. New York in 1856. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 



for which provision was made by the Legislature, and of 
which Judge Huger was elected general. 

Mr. McKibben was the Senator from Union to the State 
Legislature from 1818 to 1826. He died suddenly in 1827. 
He never was married; this with him, as with most men, 
took from him every noble motive to eminence and success, 

No more convivial and social man belonged to any society 
than he was in the beginning of life. Long before his 
death he felt like he was a solitary and recluse — and as 
such he was little disposed to mingle in the societies which 
he once loved so well. 

David T. Milling, Esq., a native of Fairfield, settled at 
Newberry in 1807 or 1808. He was a diligent practitioner 
for many years; he understood practice very well, and 
often availed himself of his knowledge of technicalities to 
overwhelm his more careless rival, (McKibben.) But he 
never could or would make a sj)eech. On one occasion he 
was commended by his client, who had non-suited his 
adversary on account of some slip which Milling detected: 
"Give me," said old Tom Lindsey, "a dumb lawyer." He 
married Maria Latham and removed to Georgia, where he 
died some years ago. 

In 1809 (November), Judge Crenshaw and John Caldwell, 
Esq., were admitted to the Bar, and settled at Newberry. Both 
were graduates of the South Carolina College, and both were 
very far from being dumb lawyers. 

Anderson Crenshaw was the first graduate of the South 
Carolina College; he graduated in 1800; studied law with Judge 
Nott, of Columbia, and came to the Bar with a most accu- 
rate knowledge of his jorofession. 

His cases were always well and properly made up in the 
pleading, and thoroughly prepared, he went to trial with 
great probabilities of success. His arguments were replete 
with good sense, but were never remarkable for eloquence. 
To him, more than any one else, may be ascribed the charac- 
ter of the Newberry Bar for legal knowledge and industry. 
He presented the example which has had effect, good effect, 
for forty years. 

Mr. Crenshaw, however, lacked judgment; he often failed 
in cases whe.i>; less learned men would have succeeded. He 



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pjarried in 1815 Miss Mary Chiles, of Abbeville; he removed to 
Alabama in 1819; there he became a Judge of the circuit 
law courts, and of the court of appeals, and subsequently a 
Chancellor. lie died in 1848, full of years, usefulness and 
honors. 

John Caldwell, Esq.. never pretended to the learning of 
his rival. Judge Crenshaw; indeed, he was not like him bred 
at the feet of Gamaliel. He studied law with Samuel Far- 
row, Esq., and kept an office for him at Newberry a year or 
two before ho was admitted to the Bar. IMr. Caldwell had 
in many respects greatly the advantage of his rival; he had 
been thoroughly educated, theoretically and practically, for a 
merchant; he was an accomplished surveyor; he commanded 
one of the first troops of cavalry in the upper country; he 
was one among the most active young men of his day; and 
he possessed an easy elocution, and a quick and ready per- 
ception of both law and fact. These great natural advantages 
were often sufficient to carry him through all the defenses of 
his rival; but now and then his Parthian agilitv Avas une- 
qual to the measured tread of the Macedonian phalanx of his 
adversary. 

He and Judge Crenshaw were elected together to the House 

of Representatives in 1812; in that year Mr. Caldwell voted 

for the Bank and became a Director in that institution, and 

thereby lost his seat; he was elected the Cashier of the Branch 

Bank in Columbia, to which place he removed in 1814. In 

1813, with Chancellor Harper, he was elected a Trustee of 

the South Carolina College. They were the lirst graduates 

honored with ftiat high distinction. He remained in Columbia 

until after the death of his first wife in February, 181C. 

Elizabeth Caldwell, daughter of Judge Hunter, most amiable 

and excellent of women, on thy tomb should be written: 

"Beneath this stone doth lie 
As much of virtue as could die; 
Which when alive did vigor give 
To as much gooduess as could live I" 

He resigned his cashiership, returned to Newberry, and mar- 
ried Abigail O'Neall, the eldest daughter of Hugh O'Neall, 
He has been the Representative of Newberry in the State 
Legislature for at least three terms since. He retired from 
the Bar several years ago. 



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He has been grievously afflicted for mauy years; but still 
he is spared; and would that it could be so, that his 
infirmities might be overcome, and that in comfort and 
happiness he might enjoy a green old age.* 

Of Judge O'Neall, Chancellor Johnstone, Solicitor Fair, 
Messrs. Bauskett, Col. P. C. Caldwell, Pope, Heller, Jones? 
DeWalt, Hamage, Crosson, "Williams, Garlington and Baxter, 
it is not my purpose to speak. 

I may be pardoned to recall the memories of John G. 
Brown, Simon P. Gray, Robert Dunlap, James J. Caldwell, 
Dennis L. Moon and George F. Eppes, and to mention 
another who has ceased to belong to onr State, Spencer 
C. Harrington. 

John G. Brown was the eldest surving son of the Revo- 
lutionary officer and soldier. Dr. Jacob Robert Brown, who 
was also one of the County Court Judges of Newberry. 
He graduated in the class of 1811, in the South Carolina 
College, and received a high distinction. He studied law 
with Judge Crenshaw at Newberry, and was admitted to 
the Bar in January, 1814; he practiced law at Newberry 
to his election, in December, 1815, to the ofSce of Secretary 
of State. In 1817 he was elected with Judge O'Neall and 
Warren R. Davis, Trustees of the South Carolina College. 
They were the second set of graduates who received the 
honor of being set over the destinies of their Alma Mater. 
He was subsequently a member of the House of Represen- 
tatives from Newberry. Judge O'Neall, John Caldwell, John 
G. Brown and Benjamin Maybin were the Representatives 
elected in 1824. Soon after the expiration of that term, 
he removed to Columbia. He was one of the members of 
the Convention of 1880, which was the result of our Nulli- 
fication difficulties. He had been previously elected President 
of the Branch Bank of Columbia. He married in 1818 or 
1819, Rebecca, the daughter of Governor Taylor; he died 
at the Limestone Springs in 1839. 

John G. Brown was a man of very excellent abilities; 
indeed, I might, in one sense, say he was a man of genius. 
He was a wit; possessed great colloquial powers; told an 
anecdote as well as (if not better than) any body else. 

* He died loth of January, 1856, in the 71st year. 



ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 127 

He wrote well, but never could speak extemporarily. He 
was the loved and cherished companion of his acquaintances. 

Simon P. Gray graduated in the same class. He was 
the eldest son of George Gray; studied law with Judges 
Nott and DeSaussure in Columbia in 1812 and 1813, and 
lie was admitted to the Bar. I think, in December, 1818, 
and practiced for a short time at Newberry. He soon, 
however, either became disgusted with his profession, or 
found a better and more profitable employment in his firm. 

He removed from Newberry District to Alabama about 
3819; married there, and died, I think, in 1835. He was 
never capable of speaking eloquently, though he always 
spoke with good sense. He was a companionable, i)leasant 
acquaintance and friend. 
/ Robert Dunlap was the second sou of Major AVm. Dunlap, 
•of Laurrens; he graduated in the class of 1817; he studied 
law with Judge O'Neall, and was admitted to plead and 
])ractice law, December term, 1820. He married first Amelia? 
the second daughter of Major Frederick Nance, and afterwards 
Sarah, his third daiighter. 

Mr. Dunlap was elected in '20 to the House of Repre- 
sentatives. He removed to Alabama about 1833, and there 
died in 183'). His wife and three children survived him: 
only two of his children now remain. 

He was a clear-headed, well-read lawyer; he never had 
any elocution; he spoke sensibly but with some hesitation. 
He had many virtues calculated to make his memory dear 
V to those who knew him. 

James J. Caldwell (Chancellor Caldwell) was a native of 
Newberry; he was the only son of Dan Caldwell. He studied 
at the Newberry Academy part of 1813, while Judge O'Neall 
was the teacher; after he ceased to teach, he prepared 
himself for college at Mount Bethel; he entered college in 
the Junior Class just as it rose in December, 1815; his 
father and mother both died in the great epidemic of 
JaAuary, 1810. He graduated in December, 1817, and began 
the study of the law with Judge O'Neall. The latter part 
of 1818 he took charge of the Edgefield Academy, where 
he taught about a year. He was admitted to the Bar in 
December, 1819, or May, 1820. He entered upon the 



128 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

practice of the law at NewhtuTj Court House, and .siugle- 
haaded, toiling on year after year, he at last reached the 
front ranks of his profession. He married in 1826, Nancy 
McMorrios, the eldest daugliter of James McMorries, Esq. 
He M'as elected to the Legislature in 1830, and continued 
a member until his election to the Solicitorship in December, 
1835. In December, 1833, he was elected Brigadier- General 
of the 10th brigade. In 1814, he removed to Columbia; 
iu December, *46, he was elected Chancellor, in the place 
of Chancellor David Johnson, who was then elected Governor; 
he died Monday, 11th March, 1850, leaving his wife and 
five children him surviving. 

This gentleman shewed what could be accomplished by- 
good manners, patience and untiring industry. He possessed 
talents of high order; he spoke and wrote well. If he had 
a fault in these respects, it was that he was too diffuse. 
In all his jiublic elections before the people, it is due to 
his memory to say he never treated to a drop of hitoxi- 
sating drink. He possessed more equanimity than most 
men. Seldom, very seldom, did he lose this balance. He 
was a good man, a virtuous lawyer, a faithful Representa- 
tive and a just Judge. Greater men have certainly been 
in the service of the State, but none of purer purpose. 

Dennis L. Moon, Esq., a son of Dr. M. W. Moon, studied 
law at Newberry with Chancellor Caldwell; was admitted 
to the Bar in '25 or '2G. In 1827 lie managed the case 
of Meek vs. Atkison, 1st Bail. 81, and deserved to have 
gained it. Judging from his effort in that case, I think 
if he had been spared, he would have made a very 
respectable lawyer. But life to him was a mere morning; 
he died in a short time afterwards. His principles and 
disposition were such as must have given him the respect 
and esteem of society. 

George F. Eppes, Esq., was also a native of Newberry 
District; he was the second son of Mr. Daniel Epi)es. Mr. 
Eppes graduated at Randolph, Macon College, Ya. He 
studied law and was admitted to the Bar in '42. He 
commenced the practice forthwith at Newberry Court House, 
and was rapidly rising to eminence when death, like an 
armed man, entered upon him, and bore him away. He 



ANJJALS OF NEWBERRY. 120 

diod iu September, 1840. after a few days' illness. He 
died unmarried, leaving his mothor and only brother him 
surviving. 

He was a Methodist, and diod in the full triumi)li of 
Christian faith. His talents, good humor, patience, industry 
and good habits would have made him anything which ho 
desired to ];e. No man's death caused deeper regret, or 
produced more profound humility to the chastening hand 
of God, than his. 

Spencer C. Harrington, the elde.st son of Y. J. Harrington, 
Esq., was admitted to the Bar in the spring of 1828; he 
studied law v/ith Judge O'Neall, and was his partner from 
his admission until the latter was elected to the Bench, 
December, 1828. He then was the partner of Drayton 
Nance, Esq., until ho abandoned the practice. He was for 
some time a merchant; he owned the house now belonging 
to L. J. Jones, Esq. He and his wife were members of 
the Baptist Church, Newberry. He removed about '80, and 
lives now in Mississippi.* He is another of tha native citizens 
who have been unfortunately carried from us by the fancied 
El Dorado of the Southwest. Such removals have drained us 
of many of our best young people. It is to ha hoped the 
drain is now stopped, and hereafter, in.stead of going from us, 
they will begin to return. 

Mr. Harrington is a good man. His tah'nts were not of 
that order to make him a distinguished man, but were calcu- 
lated to make him, what is far better, an useful man. If it 
were so that South Carolina could offer him sufficient induce- 
ments to return, none would hail such event with heartier 
w(^lcome than the friend who writes this sketch. 



No. 8 Concluded. 

Tlie physicians of Newberry village deserve a more thorough 
knowledge to ])ortray their skill and character than I possess. 
Of the living, Drs. I'hompson, llufl', Long, Harrington, Cald- 
v/ell, Pratt and Jamc's, I may not speak; they must s]>eak 



* He has been also cut off. 
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130 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

for themselves in their lives and conversations. But of the 
dead, Drs. Waldo, Adams, Shell, Dobson, and the absent, 
Drs. Johnston, Mendenhall and Benjamin Waldo, I may 
venture to speak. 

Dr. Joseph W. Waldo was a native of Connecticut; he came 
to Charleston, taught school for a short time, and then came 
to Newberry, where he settled himself in ISOO, at the house 
of his friend, John McMorries, to practice medicine. He said, 
when he landed in Charleston, he had but a single dollar. 
He soon attained eminence and distinction as a physician; he 
settled at Newberry Court House in 1803, and here, with 
occasional sojourns in Charleston and elsewhere, for nearly 
thirty years he practiced medicine with singular and unvarying 
success. Few men understood as well as he did the nature 
of Southern disease. 

In 1812 he was for a short period deprived of his reason; 
this probably was mania-a-potu. During the prevalence of 
this disease, he attempted to kill himself. He escaped from 
the house and care of his friend, Y. J. Harrington, Esq., 
saddled his horse, and riding to the place where Lewis 
McCreless was killed; he fancied the dem,ons, who were driving 
him on, ordered him to dismount and kill himself; he obeyed 
and made the attempt. His friend, Harrington, who pursued 
him the instant he knew his escape, found him walking up 
and down the road, bleeding from both arms; he told him 
he had opened the main arteries of his arms, and run his 
lancet into his side in the region of his heart as far as he 
•could push it for the handle. But he was mistaken, he had 
in his hurry only opened the veins of his arms ; and the 
lancet in his side had struck a rib and run around on it. 
His friend bound up his arms and brought him back to his 
house. He got well, but the visions which haunted then his 
imagination, ever after adhered to it. He became deeply 
impressed with his awful impenitent condition; after awhile 
he experienced a work of grace, and attached himself to the 
Baptist Church. 

In 1811 he married Elizabeth, the widow of his early 
friend, Luke Smith; by her he had two children, Benjamin 
and Elizabeth. 

He removed to Connecticut, leaving his wife behind him in 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 131 

1829. He died in Connecticut,' at his residence, in 1838. 

I have never known a man who had such a fixed and stiib- 
boru purpose, and who possessed so much real kindness of 
heart. He had great intelligence, and great knowledge of his 
profession. Certainly on religious and domestic matters his 
mind was greatly diseased from 1812 to his death. Yet I 
have no doubt, with all his eccentric thoughts and actions, 
he was really and truly a Christian. 

Dr. Freeborn Adams, a native of Massachusetts, married 
Judith Finch, the daughter of Edward Finch, and settled at 
Newberry Court House in 180G. He was a most patient and 
untiring attendant on a sick bed. That he gave general 
satisfaction, as a physician, was fiilly shewn by the flood tide 
of prosperity which he experienced. A friend said to me a 
few days ago, he was the most industrious man he evei* saw. 
While other professional men would have been idle for want 
of something to do in their immediate vocation, he was 
engaged in any work which needed to b(^ done about his 
improvements. He lived first in a liouse built by Dr. Waldo, 
north of the brick liouso, owned now by Joseph ISIooney, and 
at the eastern termination of Boyce Street. He subsequently 
built the brick house just spoken of, and had opened it as a 
tavern and boarding house a short time, when he took sick 
and died *in September, 1813. He left his wife and three 
infant children, a son and two daughters, him surviving. Dr. 
Adams was a good man and well deserves to live in the 
memory of the people of Newberry, and for that purpose the 
street running north and south, in front of Mooney's brick 
house, is called Adams Street. 

Dr. Thomas Shell was a native of Newl:)erry; he studied 
medicine with Di-. Johnston; he married in 1816, while he 
was yet a student, Precious Schoppert. In the fall of 1810 
and beofinningr of 1817 he attended the Lectures at Philadel- 
phia, and on his return commenced practice at Newberr;/. 
which he continued to his death in 1820. 

Dr. Shell was a man of plain good sense, of great honesty 
and morality. He was a good physician; his family was 
expensive and lived beyond his means; he died therefore 
insolvent, leaving his wife and three little ones to struggle 
with all the evils of poverty. 



132 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Dr. Daniel Dobson was a native of North Carolina, and I 
think a graduate of the North Carolina University of Chapel 
Hill. He taught school near Dr. Glenn's and at Newberry 
for several years. He was beyond doubt one of the best 
teachers whom I have had occasion to observe for many years. 
He studied medicine, and graduated at the Charleston College 
in 1845. He practiced, but did not obtain that full measure 
of biisiness which his talents and acquirements entitled him 
to expect. In 1848 he visited Mexico for the purpose of 
bringing home the mortal remains of the gallant young man, 
Lieut. John W. Stewart, the son of his friend and patron 
Robert Stewart. He succeeded in his purpose, but died soon 
after his return, July Cth, 1848. 

Worthy, talented and well educated, well may we deplore 
the loss of such a young man; but our loss is his gain; he 
died a Christian. 

Dr. .Burr Johnston, the son of Samuel Johnston, of Fairfield, 
was a student of the Newberry Academy in 1807 and 1808; 
he entered the College in 1809, and graduated in 1811; he 
studied medicine with Dr. Waldo at Newberry C. H. in 1812 
and 1813; the latter part of 1813 and beginning of 1814 he 
visited Philadelphia, attended the lectures; on his return he 
commenced the practice at Newberry C. H., and unremittingly 
continued it until 1840, when he removed to Alabama, where 
he now lives, and where long may he live with all the bless- 
ings of life around him. In 1818 he bought the plantation 
of Y. J. Harrington, where Col. Fair now lives; he married 
his first wife; Harriet Foote, the same year. 

Dr. Johnston was an experienced, safe physician, a firm 
friend, a good neighbor and patriotic citizen. Everybody 
regretted his removal, and even now gladly would he be wel- 
comed back by his old friends.* 

Dr. M. T. Mendenhall is a native of Guilford County, North 
Carolina; his wife is the only child of the good man, Isaac 
Kirk, spoken of in No. 4. Both are descended from friends, 
on paternal and maternal lines; both Vv^ere born in the Society; 
both are now members of the Baptist Churcli, Charleston. 

De. Marmaduke Thomas Mexdenkall — Dr. Mendenhall is no 

'-Id the last year this eminently good man died. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 133 

more, was a sad announcement to him who writes, when on 
Wednesday, 5th November, 1852, at Camden, it first fell on his 
ear. Still it presents itself to recurring thoughts in enduring 
sadness. Farewell, friend, brother and co-laborer ! This world 
has been passed, and your journey to other and brighter worlds 
on high has been completed. May we there, in God's appointed 
time, meet in never ending joy. 

To die as to live in well remembered honor and glory, is the 
just reward of him who has lived in usefulness and virtue. 
This great meed has been earned and won by him whose home 
is above. Few men lived to better purposes than he did. 

Dr. Mendenhall was born in Guilford County, North Caro- 
lina, in the Society of Friends, on the 18th day of December, 
1798. His father, James Mendenhall, is an elder in the Society 
of Friends; he still survives at the great age of eighty-two 
years. His mother, Miriam, was an eminent and gifted speaker 
among them; she died in 1845, aged seventy-one years. He 
received a tolerably good classical education, and having selected 
medicine as his pursuit, he graduated at Philadelphia, in 
February, 1822. Soon after he became acquainted with Phoebe 
Kirk, the only child of Isaac Kirk, (deceased,) of Bush River, 
Newberry District, South Carolina, who like himself was born 
and raised a Friend. They were married on the day of March, 
A. D. 1824, and soon after he removed to, and settled on, his 
wife's fine real estate, four miles south of Newberry. The mills 
on Bush River he thoroughly rebuilt, and made them merchant 
mills indeed. He here practiced medicine for several years 
successfully. Here were born their only two children, Pauline 
Eliza and James Kirk. In February, 1830, he removed to the 
town of Newberry, and there he and his wife became the 
subjects of converting grace, and in September, 1831, were 
immersed, and became members of the Baptist Church at New- 
berry, which was constituted in the October following out of 
the many converts vmder the preaching of Elder Hodges and 
his assistants, Furman, Barnes and Chiles. He there resided 
until 1837, practicing medicine and aiding in every good word 
and work. In 1835 he was set apart as a Deacon. 

In 1837 he removed to Charleston to engage in the mercan- 
tile business, under the firm of Fort, Townsends & Mendenhall. 
The beautiful brick building in Granite Row, corner of Hayne 



134 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and Meeting Streets, was their house of business. They did a 
large and extensive business. Fort, the Georgia partner, died 
the second year, and the firm, thus reduced to the Townsends, 
of New York, and Mendenhall, of Charleston, pursued the 
business. He became, while thus engaged, a Director of the 
Bank of the State, and had the entire confidence of its 
President, the late Judge Colcock, for several years. Upon 
the dissolution of the firm Dr. Mendenhall retired a consider- 
able loser, and entered upon a new field, that of a commission 
merchant. He was sustained by many friends, tmd apparently 
fortune smiled upon him. But confidence in a broker, who 
removed to New Orleans, and a participation in his large 
hazardous speculations, and securityship for a brother Director 
in the Bank, an apparently well doing man, but who suddenly 
disappeared from South Carolina, compelled him to close his 
doors in 1840. 

Notwithstanding that bankrujjtcy thus came down upon him 
suddenly, and like a strong man bound him, yet he neither 
lost the confidence of his creditors, nor his self-respect. He 
soon burst the shackles which were around him, and in pure 
and virtuous honesty was taken by the hand, and sustained 
by the community in which he lived. He was elected, on the 
resignation of Mr. Lehre, to the Ordinary's office. At the 
expiration of his term he was re-elected. The duties of that 
great office he performed admirably well. Although having 
no knowledge of the law when elected, he soon made himself 
master of all those points which usually were made in his 
office. His decisions on contested questions were remarkable 
for the clearness and perspicuity with which he stated and 
argued the case. The lawyers of Charleston often spoke of 
him as an accomplished Ordinary. 

He joined, on removing to Charleston, the First Baptist 
Church, and became a Deacon in it. He sustained Dr. 
Brantley in the trying circumstances attending a portion of 
his ministry. He has been the intimate friend of Mr. Kendrick 
since he had the charge of the church. 

In 1842 or '43 he became a member of the Charleston 
Total Abstinence Society, and on the retirement of Benj. G. 
Howland, its first and never enough admired President, he 
became his successor. For several years he discharged most 



ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 135 

faithfully the duties of President. He early became a Son of 
Temperance, and in October, 1849, he became the G. W. P. 
He was from first to last an ardent, working and eminently 
useful Teetotaller. He was from its organization the President 
of the Southern Baptist Publication Society, and contributed 
much to its success. 

Upon the resignation of A. J. Lawton he became the 
Treasurer of the Baptist State Convention. He was from an 
early day a member of the Board of Trustees of the Furman 
Institution, and from the beginning of the Furman University. 
He was a liberal contributor to every good work both in 
money and labor. He performed faithfully his various duties 
in the offices to which he gave himself in the promotion of 
religion and temperance. He lived to educate and to see his 
children settled for life. Pauline married Benj. Scott, Esq., 
and lives near Chattanooga in the enjoyment of the indepen- 
dent comforts of a farm. James Kirk Mendenhall is the 
Pastor of the Camden Baptist Church. His father attended 
his ordination in October, and soon after his return to Charles- 
ton was struck down with country or yellow fever, and in a 
few days closed his usefiil life. He died on Tuesday evening, 
the 2nd of November, 1852. 

With good old Jacob he could have exclaimed, "Few have 
been the days of my pilgrimage here."' Yet, notwithstanding 
he was cut down while yet the summer of life was upon 
him, he was ripe for the harvest. His life had been one of 
active pious usefulness, and he was to be gathered early as 
rich fruits into the garner of everlasting righteousness and 
peace. 

Weep not parent, wife, children and friends, although dead 
he lives, yea lives here, and lives in eternal life. He has 
experienced the value of the great scripture truth, "Blessed 
are the dead who die in the Lord," and his survivors will 
realize that "his works do follow him." No man has died in 
South Carolina whose death has excited more real sorrow. 
Every body was ready to drop a tear on his tomb, and say 
"a good man has been gathered to his fathers." 

Dr. Mendenhall was rather less than the common size, his 
hair was sandy, his complexion ruddy, his eyes blue, and his 
features regular and betokening great intelligence. He was a 



136 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

kind hearted benevolent man. His purpose was to do good, 
and he gave himself up to carrying it out. His disposition 
was social; he enjoyed his friends and family. Hospitality 
was a part of his nature. At his hoiTse his brethren and 
friends always found a hearty welcome. He was an exact 
and ready accountant. He wrote a good hand. He composed 
•and wrote easily; his letters and other compositions were 
remarkable for their perspicuity and force. He spoke plainly, 
forcibly and well. He made no pretensions to oratory; but 
yet he never failed to secure an attentive auditory whenever 
he chose to speak. In all the relations of life, as a friend, 
child, parent, husband and master, he was good, just and 
true. As a citizen and an officer he was never found wanting. 
Few, very few, such men live or have lived amongst us as Dr. 
Mendenhall. His death has made a great void — still we must 
not mourn. With the poet let us say: 

"Servant of God well done; 
Eest from thy loved employ, 
The battle fought, the victory won, 
Enter thy Master's joy." 

Dr. Benjamin Waldo, the son of Dr. Joseph W. Waldo, 
graduated in the Medical College of Charleston in 1S3G; he 
settled at Newberry in 1838, and with increasing reputation 
and usefulness pursued his business to the fall of 1847, when 
he removed to Florida. He married Sarah, the daughter of 
John Lipscomb, of Edgefield. Few men ever were greater 
favorites in Newberry, as was shewn in his election to the 
Legislature in 1844. 

James Diwer lived after 1828 in the house built by Mar- 
maduke Coate, until December, 1833, when he removed to 
Charleston. 

The life of this gentleman is romantic enough to gratify 
the morbid taste of the present age for the wonderful, if we 
had space to give it. He was an Irishman. He landed in 
New Brunswick, and there became a member of the Baptist 
Church; his wanderings thence I cannot trace; he came to 
Newberry District in 1819, with his bundle on a stick, and 
taught a common country school until the fall of 1820. In 
the summer of that year he began the study of the classics 



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137 



at the Newberry Academy, and at a school near James Mc- 
Morries, in Laurens, he completed his Academic education. 
He entered the Junior Class of the South Carolina College, 
by the bounty of the Clariosophic Society, incorporated in 
December, 1822. He was in 1823 elected Treasurer of the 
College, with a salary of 1400; he graduated December, 1824? 
and was elected at the same time tutor of mathematics in the 
South Carolina College, with a salary of $1,000. Such unex- 
ampled success attending the course of a stranger indicated 
rare qualities of the head and heart. Such had James 
Di\^er; he was one of the best mathematicians ever graduated 
at the South Carolina College; he was a true Irishman, 
generous and devote'd. But an unfortunate habit, too much 
indulged in, of using intoxicating drink, made it necessary 
for him to resign. Ho came to Newberry, and took charge of 
the Academy in 1828, (January:) he married in February, 
Sophia Coppock. 

From 1833, Mr. Divver's arrival in Charleston, till 1845, he 
taught school for a great time with unexampled success. 
About that time he took charge of the Merchants' Hotel, 
King Street, Charleston; he died December, 1847, leaving a 
widow and nine children. Misfortune after misfortune crowded 
on his latter years, and he died largely insolvent; but his 
family were not left destitute; a provision which a friend 
induced him to make soon after his marriage for his wife and 
children saved them from poverty. From '42 to his death, 
Mr. Divver was a member of the Total Abstinence Society, 
and never tasted intoxicating drink. James Div^-er was a 
simple, pure minded, good hearted Irishman, an excellent 
teacher, the best of husbands and fathers. 

David Boozer, (Big Dave, as he was usaully called;) was 
an inhabitant of the town of Newberry, until Sunday, 10th of 
February, 1850, on w^hich day, he blew out his own brains, 
and rushed into the presence of his mighty Maker. He was 
a native of Newberry. The writer knew him well from 1808 
to his death: he was possessed of great energy of character; 
had generally a great flow of spirits, and until within a few 
years had been attended by unexampled prosperity. The 
change in this respect, although he was still surrounded by 
an ample estate, unsettled his reason, and led to the rash. 



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mad act, whicli lu> coininitti'il. Ht> li>ft a widow, his soc't)iKl 
wifo. and an ado})tod child to inoiirn thoir groat loss. His 
aji^tnl luotlior, of nioro than four score yoars, still survives; sad 
and awful indeed was it to see her bending over his mangled 
remains, and himenting her first born son only as a mother 
can himent. He was an honest, good man. How frail, how- 
ever, is poor humanity, at all times, and never more sadly 
illustrated than in the case of David Boozer's suicide. 

The Newberry Agricultaral Society, constituted in 1838, is 
a district institution, but holding here its annual meetings, 
may be briefly noticed in connection with the town. Beginning 
with 1841, the annual meetings have since been numerously 
attended. Premiums were awarded for stock and various 
other matters then and since. One hundred persons now 
belong to it. The annual meeting brings them together to 
impart to one another the benefits of each year's observation 
and experience. They dine together, with cold water as their 
only beverage, and with improved and improving friendships 
they meet and separate. The reports from various committees 
are always interesting, and have given a high character to the 
Society. Newberry has improved under the infhience of such 
a Society more than the most sanguine dared to hope. The 
officers of the Society are John Belton O'Neall, President; 
Dr. George W. Glenn, 1st Vice President; Simon Fairar, 'Jnd 
Vice-President; Silas Johnston, Recording Secretary, and W. 
B. D'Oyley, Treasurer. I trust I may be allowed to express 
the hope, that this Society may increase in numbers and 
usefulness, until Newberry shall be cultivated like a garden, 
and all her resources shall be fully developed. 

There has been a Female Academy, with occasional intt>rval, 
in operation for many years. Lately the Trustees of the 
Academies, male and female, have applied a portion of their 
fiinds, derived originally from escheated estates, granted by 
the Act of 1828, to the purchase of a lot between Johnston 
and Boundary Streets, and liave erected on it a beautiful and 
commodious brick house. There is a fine school now in opera- 
tion under the charge of a well educated, intelligent and 
Christian teacher, Mr. DuPre,* It is to be hoped that New- 

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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 139 

berry will not suffer herself, in the education of her daughters, 
to be behind any district in the State; and that the school 
will be such as to justify its teachers's permanent settlement 
among us. 

Reader, before you is the village or town of Newberrj^ from 
its earliest days. May it hereafter far surpass and exceed 
what it ever has been. 



140 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



NO. 9. 

In No. 8, by some strange forgetfnlness, the names of 
Henry Summer, Esq., and Dr. Benedict Mayer were omitted 
among the professional gentlemen now living in the town of 
Newberry. Both of them have too much merit, both as men, 
and in the law, and in physic, to be omitted when Newberry 
is remembering her children. 

Nicholas Summer, Esq., once well known in the town and 
district of Newberry as a young man of talent and a lawyer 
of promise, deserves to be chronicled among her past worthies. 

He was the eldest son of Capt. John Summer, of Pomaria, 
formerly of Lexington, now of Newberry District. He was 
born 27th of October, 1804. In 1826, he applied to Judge 
O'lsTeall to study law, who advised him to graduate before he 
attempted the stiidy. He accordingly entered the South 
Carolina College in December, 1826, and graduated with the 
first honor of his class in December, 1828. He studied law 
and was admitted to the Bar in December, 1830. He settled 
at Newberry, and successfully piirsued his ])rofession as the 
partner of Robert Dunlap, Esq., and after his removal, alone, 
until February, 1836, when he and a younger brother, John, 
volunteered in Col. Goodwyn's regiment of mounted volunteers 
in the Florida campaign against the Seminole Indians. He 
was the orderly sergeant of Capt. Hargrove's company, and 
on the 30th of March was badly wounded by a l^all fired by 
the Indians in an ambuscade, as the company filed into a 
swamp, which shattered his thigh bone. In this wounded 
* condition he was carried to Tampa Bay, where he languished 
until the 13th of June, when he was released from pain and 
suffering here, and entered upon an everlasting state. His 
brother who accompanied him, and who had been constantly 
by his bed side, in a few days after his death sickened and 
died. Of them I may be permitted to say in the beautiful, 
inspired language of King David, when lamenting the fall of 
Saul and Jonathan, they "were lovel}^ and pleasant in their 
lives, and in their death thev were not divided." Sad, how- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 141 

ever, is the reflection, whenever we contemplate the bed of 
glory as the bed of death, and remember how many noble 
men have been sacrificed, uselessly sacrificed, in such a war 
as that waged against the Seminoles. 

Nicholas Summer was a well educated man, capable of 
l)eing eminently useful ! He spoke well, and there can be 
little doubt, had he been permitted to live, he would before 
this have occupied the front rank of his profession. As it 
was, he only gave the promise of the fruit by the richness ot 
the flower. 

Having discharged the pleasing, yet mournful duty of a 
just tribute to a young friend, I turn now to the more appro- 
j^riate business of this number, the Bush River Baptist Church. 
Their house of worship is near the river whose name it bears, 
and is about twelve miles southwest of Newberry. This ven- 
erable religious body, was constituted in 1771 by Elders Philip 
Mulkey and Samuel Newman. It consisted of nine members, 
one of whom, Samuel Newman, became the Pastor. It is 
remarkable, that with one excej)tion, this church, from its 
constitution, in 1771, to the present time, has called its 
Pastors from its own members. Of Elder Newman, I have 
been unable to obtain any satisfactory accounts; his descen- 
dants, until very recently, lived near to the church, perhaps 
some may still remain. He died suddenly in, I presume, '73; 
as in that year. Elder Thomas Norris, a licensed preacher of 
the Baptist Church of Little Saluda, in Edgefield District, 
was called to the care of the Bush Eiver Baptist Church, and 
accepted the call. He was ordained the same year by Elders 
Philip Mulkey and David Rees; and became the Pastor of the 
Lord's little flock of Bush River. 

Elder Norris was a peculiar man, and endeavored to walk 
in the primitive manner of the Apostles. He visited his people 
and friends on foot, and as he entered a house, he said, in 
the language of his Master, (Luke 10:5) "peace be to this 
house." He practiced the washing of the feet of his brethren, 
as taught in John IB chaj). 4, 5. His pastorship was in the 
.troublesome times of the Revolution. He taught the doctrine 
of non-resistance; for his boldness in thus preaching he was 
shut up in the prison of old Ninety-six. His liberty was 
offered him a^ain and again, if he would cease to teach and 



142 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

preach as was liis wont. In the martyr spirit of Christianity, 
he refused to accept his liberty on any snch condition. He 
was at length released without condition, and in his pnre, 
humble and guileless way, continued to preach and teach 
"Jesus and Him crucified/' until 1780, when he, too, like 
Elder Newman, was suddenly called home. 

In 1781, John Cole, . Sr., a member of the church, was 
called to be their Preacher; he entered ujion the duties thus 
laid upon him; and in 1783, was ordained and set apart to the 
work of the Gospel Ministry by Elders Joseph Btirson and 
John Web. The church, under his care, grew and increased 
daily, until 1791, when the church was first represented in 
the Bethel Association. At this time Michael Landers was 
appointed the clerk, and a regular record of the proceedings 
of the church began to be kept. In '94 it appears that that 
good man, David Mason, was one of the messengers to the 
Association. For more than forty years, I presume, he was a 
member of this church, and engaged in the blessed work of 
reconciliation and peace, which so much characterized him 
during my knowledge of him for the last twenty years of 
his life. 

In 1802 was that great revival of religion, which may have 
been several times since equalled, but has certainly never 
been surpassed. It seemed as if the spirit of the living God 
was pervading the whole community, and that all were rising 
up and crying out "men and brethren, what shall we do to 
be saved?" That many extravagancies were enacted, and 
much which, to us of a more sober day, seems to be no work 
of the gentle spirit of Christian grace, was present is true. 
The falling of many, and the spasmodic action of others, 
called "the jerks,^' occurred under the preaching of the min- 
isters, who then and there proclaimed their Master's word. 
Whether such things be or be not the fruits of the Spirit, it 
is not for such an one as I to say. Still I would venture to 
suggest, that there is much more of human sympathy and 
terror than repentance in such scenes. But still many were 
truly converted, and became bright and shining lights in the 
Lord's house. From the 22nd of August to the 30th of 
October, inclusive, ninety-four persons were received and 
baptized on a profession of faith. On the 4th of September, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 143 

Charles Crow was received and baptized. This gentleman, as 
will be hereafter seen, was "a chosen vessel" of the Redeemer, 
destined to bear the word not only to his neighbors, but to a 
distant land. 

On the 9th of July, 1803, Charles Griffin, Esq., was received 
and baptized. Mr. Griffin was first appointed a Justice of the 
Peace for Newberry in 1798, and continued as such, and as a 
Justice of the Quorum till his death in 1820. At his appoint 
ment, and for many years after, it was no small honor to be 
a Justice of the Peace. None but the most intelligent and 
virtuous members of the community were then appointed. 
Mr. Griffin was a member of the House of Representatives of 
South Carolina in 1810 and 1811. No man better deserved 
the affectionate regard of his neighbors; for he v/as indeed a 
good man, and verily his works follow him. 

On the 13th of October, 1804, Stephen McCraw was 
appointed the clerk of the church in place of Michael 
Landers, deceased. Mr. Landers I never knew, and cannot, 
therefore, speak of him further than to say he seems to have 
been capable of writing a good hand, and keeping in very 
decent order the records of the church. 

He died childless; his widow was the wife of John Gooch; 
and his adopted son, John Demony, after her death, was, by 
his will, entitled to his land. 

Stephen McCraw was an active, bustling, intelligent little 
man, who, soon after the close of the war of 1812, was seized 
tvith the mania of bettering his fortunes in the southwest, 
and emigrated to Alabama. 

On the 8th day of March, 1800, I find the following query 
was propounded to the church; ''Is it a matter worthy of 
censure for brethren to carry or send spirituous liquors to 
public places to sell by the small f The answer was: ''IFe 
think it a jiractice beneath the dignity of a disciple of Jesus, 
and that it is not sanctioned by the GosjDclP^ This was 
indeed the glimmering light of that better day of Total 
Abstinence which is now so radiant every where. Especially 
does it delight me that this venerable church, now near eighty 
years of age, should have been, forty- four years ago, permitted 
to testify against ^he abominable traffic in intoxicating drink. 
Brethren, may I not ask you to ponder well upon this ancient 



144 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

action of your own church, and inquire whether it is not your 
duty, one and all, to be alongside of your present worthy 
pastor in his war against strong drink? 

On the 8th of August, 1807, two gifted brethren of the 
church, James Teague and Charles Crow, were called to the 
work of the Gosj^el Ministry, and Elders Palmer, Shackelford, 
Lilly and King were appointed to ordain them. On the 29th 
of August, Elders Palmer and King attended, and in the 
presence of the church, ordained them. On the 9th of 
November, 1811, John S. Carwile, heretofore spoken of in No. 
8, was received as a member. In 183 7, 11th of October, he 
became the clerk of the church in the place of Stephen 
McCraw, resigned, which place he retained until 11th October, 
1829, when he resigned and was succeeded by John K. 
Grffiin. On the 6th October, 1831, Mr. Carwile and James 
Diwer were dismissed from the Bush River Church to become 
the foundation of the church at Newberry, which was about 
being gathered and constituted out of the converts of Septem- 
ber previous. 



No. 9 Concluded. 

James Teague was not permitted to labor long in his 
Master's Vineyard; he died young. 

John Cole, Sr., the third Pastor of the Bush River Church, 
died full of years and j)ious usefulness, in 1810. For thirty- 
five years he had been the Pastor; he had seen the church 
begin as a little flock, grow, increase, and become as a great 
army. Every where his 2:)raise was in all the churches; and 
yet there is no record of him from Avhich a fuller and better 
account can be given of his life and services. He lie.a in the 
quiet church yard of Bush River, in the midst of his tlock 
and family. His glorified spirit is in the presence of Him 
whom he loved, honored and served so well here on earth. 

On the 9th of October, 1810, Elder Charles Crow was 
called to, and took upon himself the pastoral care of the 
church. Never was any religious body confided to abler and 
better hands. Few preachers were better endowed vrith grace 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 145 

from on high; few men in or out of the ministry presented 
more loveable lives than Charles Crow. He continued to 
discharge the duties till 1825, when, like many of his brethren, 
he thought it to be his duty to his family to seek his home 
in the Southwest. There he has been permitted ever since to 
preach most acceptably his Master's Kingdom, and long may 
he be continued, faithfiil, able and venerable, as he is, to 
labor in that great work. 

On the 12th of January, 1822, Daniel Mangum was received 
as a member. On the 9th of April, 1825, David Peterson, a 
member of the church and an ordained minister, was called 
to the care of the church; he accepted the sacred trust, but 
in a few months he was removed from usefulness below to 
glory above. Mr. Peterson was no common man. He had 
experienced a full share of the vanities of this world. Like 
Solomon, he had tasted the falsely called pleasures of the 
world; and like him he could have exclaimed "vanity of 
vanities; all is vanity." Like him, he had learned wisdom in 
the courts of experience, and like him he had turned to the 
living God ! He had a limited education ; but he possessed a 
great flow of words, not without ideas, but the just represen- 
tatives of them. If he had lived, it is probable he would 
have been eminently useful. But God does not see as men 
see ! He called him from his post ; his hour of watching was 
past, and he was allowed to enter upon his rest ! 

Elder Daniel Mangum, Pastor of the Bush River Baptist 
Church, Newberry District, is no more ! This good man and 
faithful preacher of his Master's Word literally died in his 
work. He preached at the Reedy River Baptist Association, 
Hurricane Church, Laurens District, on Saturday, the 18th 
ult., he was taken sick, was unable to reach his home, and 
died at the house of one of his relations and brethren, Dr. 
Rook, on Saturday the 2Gth, at about half -past 6 P. M., in 
the 65th year of his age, leaving a widow and several children 
to mourn their irreparable loss. 

No man has better performed his part in this world. No 
man was better prepared to enter upon his everlasting rest ! 

He became a member of the Bush River Baptist Church, 
12th January, 1824; on the 3d of November, 1825, he was 
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146 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

set apart by the church for the work of the ministry; he was 
ordained as a preacher and evangelist on the 7th January, 
1826; on the 12th of May, he became the Pastor of the 
church. This position he retained till his death. For twenty- 
six years he labored incessantly in that church as its Pastor, 
to lead his friends, relations and neighbors to righteousness 
and peace. Eminently were his labors blessed ! Many precious 
and great revivals took place under his ministry. Perhaps 
the greatest was that of '31-32, when 145 were added to the 
church. Scarcely a year has, however, passed away without 
some in-gathering. 

He was for many years also the supply of the Cross 
Roads, Rocky Spring and Mount Ziou Churches. He was 
the supply of the Newberry Baptist Church for over two 
years. Other churches he also attended, and faithfully led 
the people along the way of truth and righteousness. He 
was, from its organization, a member and one of the Vice- 
Presidents of the Newberry Baptist Bible Society. He was a 
Teetotaller, having early become a pledged man, and with 
iindeviating fidelity, maintained his position as a friend of 
temperance. He was elected Moderator of the Reedy River 
Baptist Association in 1851, and again in '52. Of him, the 
friend and brother who pens this imperfect sketch had occasion 
in 1850, to say: '"Mr. Mangum has been now for twenty-four 
years constantly and laboriously engaged in preaching. Few 
men can point to more fruits. Indeed, few men have had 
the physical ability to undergo the labor which he has per- 
formed. In the midst of constant preaching he has not failed 
to seek and obtain knowledge. He has improved a limited 
education to very good purpose. Often have I listened to his 
discourses and found them replete with arguments, wisdom 
and piety. Sometimes I have been delighted with bursts of 
genuine eloquence. He has taken a part, a noble part, in all 
the benevolent operations of the present day of Christian 
Light, Missionary, Bible and Temperance. I call his part a 
noble one. because he has often been called to sustain these 
good causes against the ignorance and prejudice of brethren 
whom he loved." This which was said as living, may be now 
repeated as posthumous praise, with the addition of two years 
spent in the same good way. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 147 

Mr. Mangum was not only a preacher of righteousness and 
a philanthropist; he was a good citizen, neighbor and friend. 
In all these relations he was never found wanting. Occa- 
sionally he taught the young children of his neighborhood to 
enter upon the duties of life ! Every public duty demanded 
of a citizen he discharged ! The bed of sickness, and the, 
chamber of death in and out of his congregation, never failed, 
when within his reach, to have his j)resence, services and 
sympathy! He began life a poor man, but by patient industry, 
aided by his excellent wife, he attained to competence. He 
could have said to his people, as Samuel did to Israel, 
"Behold, here I am; witness against me before the Lord, and 
before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass 
have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I 
oppressed? or of whose hand 'have I received any bribe to 
blind my eyes therewith?" He was aa honest, pure, good 
man, full of mercy and good work. Blessed with an even 
good temper, a cheerful, social and happy disposition, when 
these came also to be purified by religion, he became 
indeed worthy of the great love and respect which he 
received from all who knew him. 

Mr. Mangum was about six feet high, of a large and 
powerful frame. His voice was one of great power. It was 
often tasked to its utmost by preaching to large congreora- 
tions in and out of doors. For years his friends remarked 
his failing physical powers, biit notwithstanding he must 
have known that he was wearing away, the work was 
before him, "the fields were white for the harvest," and 
he could not, and would not hold back. 

In the pulpit he sang, prayed and preached, with the 
power and zeal of the early Apostles. "Repent, and be 
baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, 
for the remission of sins," fell from his lips with no 
ordinary power, on the ears of hundreds of believing, 
trembling sinners ! He was indeed a man of God, and as 
such he entered upon his great and everlasting rest. 

The loss is ours, the gain is his. His wife, children, 
brethren, sisters and' friends may and will mourn as human 
nature demands, but their tears should be dried by remem- 
bering — he lived a man, he died a Christian, and he lives 
now a saint in everlasting glory. 



148 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

On the Gth of October, 1820, General John K. Griffin, 
Esq., was received as a member; on the Sth of November, 
1828, he was ordained a Deacon, and on the 11th of 
October, 1828, he was appointed Clerk, and continued in 
the discharge of its dvities until his death in 1841. 

The various duties of Member, Deacon, Clerk, and Mes- 
senger to the Association, were most exemplarily performed 
by General Griffin. 

General Griffin was born 18th of August, 1788; married 
very young, I think when about nineteen, the daughter of 
Col. John Simpson; she died, I think, about 1828; he 
married, in '36 or '37, Sarah Dunlap, the widow of Robert 
Dunlap, Esq., and third daughter of Major Frederick Nance. 

In 1814, John K. Griffin, then captain of militia, was 
marched under the command of Major Jason Meadow to 
the neighborhood of Georgetown, where he performed a 
tour of six months in the regiment under the command 
of Col. Alston. He returned from that expedition a very 
popular man. He retained his popularity, thus beginning, 
to his death. In October, 1816, he, with George W. Glenn, 
John B. O'Neall and Col. Samuel Cannon, was elected a 
member of the House of Representatives; he was again 
elected in 1818; in 1820, he was elected Senator in place 
of Major Frederick Nance, and continued to be re- elected, 
'24 and '28. In 1830 he was elected to Congress in the 
place of his friend. Gen. Starling Tucker, who declined a 
re-election. 

He was re-elected, '32, '34, '36 and '38. In 1840 he 
declined a re-election. In 1825 he was elected Brigadier 
General in the place of his friend, John B. O'Neall, who 
had been promoted to the rank of Major General of the 
5th division. 

In 1820 he was elected Major General in the place of 
John B. O'Neall, who in December previous, had been 
elected a Judge. In 1833, December, by that Act of the 
Legislature which vacated all the military commissions in 
the State for party purposes, and which better deserves the 
brand of ^^ unrighteousness'^ than any ever passed, he ceased 
to be a Major General. On the Ist of August, 1841, he 
closed his useful life in the full triumph of Christian faith. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 149 

General Grifi&a was a good man, and a faithful public 
officer; he possessed plain impretending good sense, with a 
great deal of practical, useful knowledge. He approached 
his various public trusts with great diffidence; but he never 
failed by persevering industry to make himself fully equal 
to the duty demanded. 

His brother, Col. Bluford F. Griffin, was received by 
the Bush River Baptist Church as a member on the 12th 
of November, 1831; on the Gth of August, 1841, he suc- 
ceeded his deceased brother as Clerk, and is now in the 
discharge of its duties. 

Having now glanced hastily over the history of this 
ancient church, it may be permitted to observe that from 
her have proceeded Mill Creek, (now Cross Road's Church) 
which was constituted in 1801; Mount Zion and Mount 
Olive, constituted, I presume, since 1831. 

Bush River Baptist Church is not only the oldest Baptist 
Church in Newberry, but probably in the upper country. 
She is one of the largest and most powerful among all 
her sisters. She has been heretofore signally blessed, in 
being provided constantly with a shepherd to lead the flock, 
and in the continual out-pouring of the spirit of all grace. 
May her present worthy pastor long be spared to her 
May she continue to grow and increase and multiply until 
she shall far exceed her former self. 

Note. — Charles Griffin, Esq., herein before spoken of, was 
born 23d June, 1763; he died 9th of August, 1820. He 
was born in Virginia. He was a soldier of the Revolution, 
and wounded just above the left hip joint. This occurred 
at Musgrove's Mills on the Enoree. He was taken at Hay's 
Station. How he escaped, or other particulars of his Revolu- 
tionary service, cannot now be ascertained. He was appointed 
a magistrate in 1798 — (not 1738.) 



150 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



NO 10. 

In this number I propose to give some further and fuller 
account of the Fork, that is, the tract of country lying 
on Broad Eiver, between Enoree and Tiger, and separated 
from Union by the district line from Avery's Ford on 
Enoree to Hill's (now Crenshaw's) on Tiger, which is about 
equal to six miles square. This section of Newberry 
possessed, and still possesses, many great natural advantages. 
The rich rolling land lying between the rivers was once 
as fertile and productive as could be desired. Improvident 
culture has made many of the hills bare — still good hus- 
bandry, as illustrated on many farms, has shewn that 
although wasted they were not impoverished. The Broad, 
Enoree and Tiger Rivers furnish a navigation for mountain 
boats, whereby most of the produce raised sought, and still 
seeks, a market. 

The original settlers were the Lyles, Jones, Sashal Grasty, 
the Kellys, Chandlers, Bonds, Gorees, Fergusons, Hills, , 
Hancocks, Stewarts, Gordons, Curetons, Dicksons, Nolands, 
Avereys, Andersons, Caldwells, Wadlingtons, John Clarke, 
James Murphy, the Littletons, Greens, Robisons, Shadrack 
Vessels, Daniel Mackel Duff, the Maybins, (William and 
Matthew,) Thomas Wilson, Thomas Perry and John Walker. 
They were generally immigrants from North Carolina and 
Virginia, except the Maybins, who came from near Bal- 
lamena, Antrim, Ireland. 

Before I enter upon the account of the other inhabitants 
of the interesting section, I trust I may be pai'doned for 
first speaking of the family of my friend, Col. Benjamin 
Maybin, and himself. From him the materials for the 
sketch of the old inhabitants of the Fork, and the incidents 
of the Revolution, were principally obtained. Since he com- 
municated them he has been gathered to his fathers, and 
of him, therefore, I may venture to give as perfect an 
account as my means will permit. 

William Maybin, the father of Col. Benjamin Maybin, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 151 

with his wife and one child, his wife's mother and sister, 
and a younger brother, Matthew Maybin, landed in Charles- 
ton in 1771, thence passed on to the place whereon the 
Colonel lived, at his death, well known as Maybinton, and 
there settled. He and .his family were Presbyterians, and 
like all of that class, took the side of liberty. In 1770 
he was in Williamson's memorable campaign against the 
Cherokees, in a company commanded by Capt. Cureton, 
and in the regiment commanded by Col. John Lyles, and 
was beyond doubt present, and participated in the ring 
fight and other affairs leading to the complete overthrow 
of the Cherokees. A full account of this expedition will 
be found by the curious in the memoir of Major McJunkin, 
published in the second volume of the Magnolia, at page 32. 
After the fall of Charleston in May, 1780, "William and 
Matthew Maybin, Shadrack Vessels and others, joined Sumter, 
either in Norvh Carolina or on the Catawba, in this State. 
They were present on the 7th of August, 1780, at the 
battle of Hanging Rock, in which Col. Maybin stated Vessels 
was killed, his father taken prisoner, and that his Uncle 
Matthew made bis escape. In this there must be some 
inaccuracy. For at Hanging Rock Sumter was victorious, 
and although it is possible that Vessels was there killed, 
yet it is not likely that a prisoner was taken by the 
vanquished party, or that there was any necessity for any 
of the victors to escape. It is most likely that WilHam 
Maybin was taken prisoner at, and that his brother Matthew 
escaped fron), Sumter's surprise by Tarleton at Fishing 
Creek, on the 18th of August, 1780, eleven days after the 
battle of Hanging Rock, and this is made almost certain 
by a subsequent part of Col. Maybin's narrative, in which 
he speaks of Vessels' death taking place at Sumter's defeat 
at Hanging Rock. William Maybin was taken to Charleston, 
and died on board a prison ship, that charnel house of 
liberty, to which British pride, tyranny and cruelty con- 
signed so many of the gallant spirits who fought and bled 
for Carolina. He was here before his death found by his 
wife's brother, Benjamin Duncan, who was a soldier in the 
British army. He prevailed on his officers to permit the 
soldier of liberty, William Maybin, to be brought- on shore. 



152 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and interred in his mother earth. He sleeps in what was 
then called Potter's field. 

Benjamin Duncan then visited his bereaved sister, and 
after some stay with her, returned to his duty, but promised, 
as soon as possible, to come back,* and take care of and 
provide for her and his other single sister, and as a pledge, 
left with Mrs. Maybin his watch and other things. It was 
soon reported among the tories that Mrs. Maybin's brother 
had left with her his gold watch; it, however, was magnified 
by rumor, as usual, for it was only a silver one. Spoil, 
spoil, ever first in the thoughts of many of those gu.ilty 
traitors, who were hurling the most deadly blows at their 
bleeding country, soon brought two of this band of marauders 
to the house of the widow and orphans; they demanded 
the watch, accompanied by threats that they would take 
the lives of the women, Mrs. Maybin and her sister and 
the children, if it was not delivered. Mrs. Maybin, with a 
mether's feeling predominating for the safety of her children, 
fled to the woods, leaving her sister to contend with the 
ruffians. The watch was hid under the head of the bed; 
she succeeded in baffling their cupidity; they found it not. 
It descended to, and was worn, preserved and valued as a 
precious relic by the late Col. Benjamin Maybin; djubly 
endeared to him as a memento of his uncle, and the 
sufferings and fortitude of his inother and aunt. 

The family of William Maybin, after his death, saffere d 
the usual privations of the Revolution. When Rawdon's 
army pursued Green on his retreat from Ninety-Six, they 
encamped about a week at Col. Glenn's, now Brazleman's, 
Mills on Enoree; they then marched through the Fork, 
and crossed Broad River at Lyle's Ford. On this march 
the soldiers plundered everything in their w'ay ! The only 
piece of meat left for the food of the family of Mrs. 
Maybin, and which she had hid on the ivind beam of her 
house, was found and taken. A small grey mare called, 
Dice, her only beast, was also borne away, thoitgh she 
afterwards fortunately recovered her. Such a foray is so 
disgraceful to a regular army, that I am reluctant to con- 
clude that it could have had the sanction of the commander, 
an Irishman, (Lord Rawdon), afterwards the celebrated 



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153 



Earl of Morra. But his command, which followed him from 
Ireland, was made up very much from the gaols; and, 
therefore, it may be very well supposed that they were a 
set of accomplished rascals, capable of stealing even the 
last morsel from the widow and orphans. 

On another occasion, a tory visited Mrs. Maybin's cabin, 
and finding a piece of homespun in her loom, he cut it 
out and bore it off as prize. What a fiend must such a 
man have been, who could look upon the almost naked 
children of a poor lone woman, and take from her the 
means of a scanty covering? He, however, did not escape. 
For little Ephraim Lyles afterwards meeting with him, and 
finding the cloth upon his legs in a pair of leggins, 
inflicted upon him a severe drubbing, and made him give 
up the cloth. This was justice, nobly and happily admin- 
istered, and if little Eph. (as he was usually called) had 
never done any othei' good deed, his memory deserves to 
be cherished and respected for this, so characteristic of a 
generous Carolinian. 

The family, as I have before said, were Presbyterians, 
and worshiped as often as they could, at King's Creek, 
where lies Col. Maybin's maternal grand-mother. Benjamin 
Maybin was born 10th of February, 1775; he was, therefore, 
a mere infant during the dark days of the Revolution. 
He was born where he lived and died. 

Of his early life I know but little. He had, I have no 
doubt, to struggle with many difficulties; but the same 
unconquerable spirit, which cai'ried him unbent through 
many of the trials of his subsequent life, enabled him to 
triumph over them. He obtained a pretty good English 
education. He was for many years a merchant, and by 
patient industry accumulated a handsome fortune, and made 
his homestead on the main road from Henderson's bridge 
on the Enoreo to Buncombe, a pretty little village bearing 
his name. 

He commanded during the war, the Sth, afterwards, 38th 
regiment of militia. He resigned, when General Starling 
Tucker was elected Brigadier, in 1815. He was twice a 
member of the House of Representatives. He died the 
27th of May last. 



154 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 

The last twenty-four yeara of his life were spent ia 
retireuient. He was twice married. By his first wife he 
had a large family, none of whom survived him except his 
son, Major William Maybin, of Columbia. He with two 
grand- children, the ch'ldren of John Maybin, (deceased,) are 
his only lineal decendants. His second wife, the youngest 
and now the only surviving child of Col. James Lyles, was 
the widow of Capt. John Henderson when she became his 
wife. One son, the only fruit of this marriage, a fine 
promising boy, was cut off, while pursuing his collegiate 
course. Mrs. Maybin survived her husband, and is now 
(March, 1850,) in the 69th year of her age. Any one 
who looks upon her, will see at once that she is the descen- 
dant of a race of heroes, and that she cou.ld, and would 
if necessary, play the part of the Spartan mother, when 
she said to her son, as she delivered his shield, "return to 
me victorious, or be borne u})on this shield !" 

Having known Col. Maybin intimately for thirty-five years, 
it is a duty which I discharge with pleasure (if there can 
be pleasure in speaking of a deceased friend) to do some- 
thing like justice to his memory. 

He was a well informed man in most of the matters 
affecting his own rights or those of his coiintry. In private 
life no man maintained what was due to himself with 
more unflinching firmness. Many undertook to oppress or 
overcome him. None ever succeeded. The poor unaided 
orphan boy maintained his foothold among the Lyles, 
Gordons, Wadlingtons and Malones; and after many years 
stood ''^jn-inms interjiares." 

As a public officer, he discharged his duties in the most 
faithful and exemplary way. Ever at his post, and ever 
ready to do what duty demanded, he deserved more than 
he ever obtained, unceasing 2}02iidarify. He was too honest, 
too sincere to be always pojDular. His opinions he never 
disguised. Such as they were, popular or unpopular, the 
people knew them. The consequence was he could not 
always be elected to the Legislature, when he desired to 
be. He was a Union man, when the storm of Nullification 
scowled over the sky of South Carolina. To be in such a 
minority tried the nerves of a man. As a husband and 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 155 

father, he was all which affection ever demanded. He was 
often called to stand by the bed of death; his first wife 
and his many children were borne from him. Still he was 
seen like King David, rising from the affliction, and exclaim- 
ing '"I shall go to them,'''' but they "shall not return to me!" 

Col. Maybin was a man of violent passions; but I never 
knew him do a mean act to gratify them. He had enemies, 
who hated and pursued him Avith a vengeance which seemed 
never to tire. Such he met with a similar spirit, and it 
may be, that on such occasions, his passions may have 
carried him too far, and that, in striking at his enemies, 
he may have touched those, who until then, were not his 
foes. 

In reference to one matter of his life, the children of 
his last wife by her former marriage, I can speak with 
great certainty. No man ever exhibited a greater desire to 
treat them with a parent's kindness than he did. When 
they, as was natural, looked at him with the jealousy with 
which children generally regard a step-father, well do I 
know that his heart was wrung by it; and that he was 
ready, always ready, to bestow upon them a father's care 
and a father's blessing. After the death of his youngest 
son, this disposition was fully shewn, in a division among 
them of what he considered their mother's estate. 

He is gone! His earthly course is closed; he has entered 
upon his everlasting state. Full of years, full of usefulness, 
he has been gathered to his fathers. May those who are 
his descendants imitate his virtues, and be like him, entitled 
to have written on the tomb which covers his remains: 
"He had his faults, but they were specks on the beautifiil 
snow white drapery of a virtuous, honest, good life." 

Ephraim, John and Williamson Lyles were brothers. 
Ephraim settled on the east side of Broad River; he was 
the father of Col. Arromanus Lyles, Col. James Lyles, Big 
Bill, Big Eph, Henry and John; all of whom settled, except 
Col. Arromanus, west of Broad River; all were actively 
engaged in the Revolution. Their father, Ephraim, was 
shot in his own house before the war commenced, (as is 
stated by Col. Maybin,) but this I presume, means before 



156 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

the fall of Charleston, in 1780. For, until then the upper 
country scarcely knew the war. 

John Lyles, the brother of Ephraiin, was elected colonel, 
and may have served in the campaign called the snow 
camps, beginning in November, '75, and taking its name 
from the great snow which fell upon the encampment of 
the army at Hollingsworth's now Simpson's Mills, Rabun's 
Creek, Laurens District, on the 24th of December, at night. 
A full account of this expedition, will also be found in 
the memoir of Major McJunkin, 2nd Magnolia, 31. 

Col. Lyles commanded in tjie expedition of the subsequent 
year against the Cherokees, to which allusion has already 
been made. In No. 7, I was mistaken in supposing Col. 
James Lyles had the command. The memoir of Major 
McJunkin was right. Who was present at the battle of 
Hanging Rock is uncertain. Col. Maybin states that Col. 
John Lyles was too old to take part in the revolutionary 
struggle subsequent to the fall of Charleston. Col. James 
Lyles, it seems from his statement, died at Chester, 1st 
July, 1780; he could not, therefore, have been present. I 
presume it was John Lyles, the youngest son of Ephraim, 
who, as Col. Maybin says, commanded the Fork company, 
and which we know was in that action on the 7th of 
August. It was nothing unusual for a captain commanding' 
an independent detachment to be called colonel in accounts 
of the Revolution. 

James Lyles, the second son of Ephraim, was appointed 
colonel, oa the resignation of his uncle, John, after his 
return from the Cherokee expedition in '70. He -commanded 
and bore part in all the partisan affairs, until the fall of 
Charleston.* Retreating then before the enemy, he was 
taken with the small j)ox, and was borne by his troops 
and friends on a litter to Chester Conrt House, where, on 
the 1st of July, he died, leaving a widow (afterwards Mrs. 

* In Tarleton's Campaign in the South, '93, he speaks of one Lisle wh o 
was from the district between Enoree and Tij?er]Rivers, being banished to 
the Islands, returning, he took place in the regiment formerly commanded 
by Col. Nash, then by Col. Floyd, in the British mterest, and carried it 
all off and joined Sumter. Who the Lide spoken of by Tarleton may be 
is uncertain. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 157 

Goree,) and three infant daughters; the youngest and only 
surviving one of whom is Mrs. Elizabeth Maybin, herein 
before spoken of. At his death, his youngest brother John 
probably succeeded to his actual command; not more than 
a company proceeded on, and joined Sumter on the Catawba, 
and fought the battle of Hanging Rock. 

John Lyles after the war became major of the lower 
battalion of the Enoree regiment, by seniority, and removed 
to Georgia. 

Williamson Lyles, the youngest brother of Ephraim and 
Col. John Lyles, was also too old to undergo the hardships 
of the war, after 1780; he had only one son old enough 
to take part in the bloody struggle for liberty. Ephraim 
Lyles, (coEtmonly called little Eph.) was that son, and 
gallantly did he perform his part. Like most of his com- 
peers, little can be told of what he did or suffered. 



No. 10 Continued. 

Sashal Grasty was a good whig, biit too old for active 
service, when the tide of war rolling from the sea-board 
overwhelmed the whole interior, he was seized by the 
British, or tories, with five or six negro slaves and marched 
to Ninety-Six gaol, where being imprisoned with others 
who had the small pox, he caught that fatal disease and 
died. He left children, one of whom, ^atsy, was the first 
wife of Samuel E. Kenner, Esq., another, Mrs. Susan 
Lyles, widow ' of Col. Arromanus Lyles, died within the 
last twenty years at Maybinton; her descendants are in that 
neighborhood. Her life, if it could be gathered together, 
would shew that truth is sometimes more marvellous than 
fiction. 

James Kelly was a soldier in the regiment raised in the 
beginning of the Revolution, called Thompson's Rangers. 
He was on Sullivan's Island at the memorable repulse of 
the British fleet, 28th July, 1776. From ^the names of the 



158 ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

officers actually ia the fort, given in Moultrie's Memoirs, 
1st vol. pp. 188, neither Col. Thompson nor any of his 
officers seem to have been there; but from the vote of 
thanks by Congress, to be found at the same page, it is 
manifest Col. Thompson's regiment had a part in that 
glorious affair. It is probable, as they were riflemen, that 
they were stationed to prevent the landing of the British 
on the Island. This service they performed while Moultrie 
and his gallant compeers were compariug the strength 
of Palmetto logs, manned by Carolinian hearts, with the 
wooden walls of old England, sustained by her noble tars, 
who had- victoriously unfurled their mast'>r's flag on every 
sea, and hitherto against every power. 

He was appointed a lieutenant in the militia < service; he 
was present at, and bore a part as a good soldier, in the 
capture of Fort Granby, on the 14:th of May, 1781. Of 
his other services I am uninformed. He lived long after 
"wild war's rude blast was blown," and enjoyed the precious 
fruits of constitutional liberty, which his services contributed 
so much to obtain, and died, leaving a posterity to inherit 
the glorious estate thus won — and which may they, and all 
of Soittli Carolina, and the other people of the United 
States, ever enjoy unmarred by disunion, or any sectional 
parties or factions. 

Mordecai Chandler belonged to Capt. John Lyles' company 
which was scouring the country below the Saluda. (This 
must have been in December, 1780, or January, 1781.) They 
(that is the company) found two men in the woods, unarmed. 
On being questioned, they professed to be whigs who had 
escajjed from the British fort at Granby, and were endeavor- 
ing to make their way to General Morgan's camp, at the 
Grindal Shoals, on Pacolet. Mordecai Chandler and George 
Reddin were detailed to conduct them to the old icagoner. 
They proceeded some distance, at some point in Union, 
having encamped for the night — while Chandler and Reddin 
were asleep, the pretended whigs rose on their escort, seized 
their arms, and in the conflict which ensued, wounded 
Chandler severely in the head, and finally made both him 
and Reddin their prisoners, and marched them to Ninety- 
Six and delivered them to the commander, Col. Cruger, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 159 

by whom they were kept as prisoners until that post was 
evacuated. Chandler was thence taken to Dorchester, where 
he remained until he was exchanged near the close of the war. 

In the war of the Revolution, both whigs and tories 
guarded the passes of the great I'ivers, especially the fords. 
Noah Bonds was one of the guards stationed west of the 
Broad River, at the Fishdam ford. The tories held the 
eastern bank. They often taunted the whigs with banters 
and opprobious words acx'oss the river. It is at the ford 
about a quarter of a mile wide. Noah, unwilling to bear 
such abuse, determined to try his big rifle. He levelled 
her at a tory, who was exposing his rear to an attack, 
and, strange to say, lodged the ball in the back part of 
his thigh ! My informant, (Col. Maybin,) says the ball 
struck the water before it reached the eastern bank. The 
aim and direction, however, being true, the rebound carried 
it h(jme. The colonel remarked, "it was said the man was 
not killed, but he did not appear there acjainy One dose 
of American lead was quite a sufficient one for him. 

Major Thomas Gordon, it is supposed, was elected major 
under the command of Col. John Lyles, and served with 
him in snow camps, and in the expedition against the 
Cherokees. He took an active part in the revolutionary 
struggle; but, like many another, the details of his services 
cannot bo now obtained. He was the first Sheriff of New- 
berry, entering on his duties at the first county court, held 
at the house of Col. Robert Rutherford, 5th September^ 
1785. His term of office was two years, according to the 
constitution of 1778. The duties of his office were correctly 
performed; and as such, I am proud to say, they have 
ever since been performed. His descendants are still, I 
presume, to be found in the Fork. 

Captain Curenton (or Ctireton, perhaps, for I know this 
name was often pronounced Curenton,) commanded the com- 
pany to which William Maybin belonged, in the expedition 
commanded by Williamson, herein before spoken of. David 
Dixon was his lieutenant. 

John Caldwell, Esq., (father of Esquire John Caldwell 
and Joseph - Caldwell, of Enoree, and therefore grandfather 
of Davis and John Caldwell, of Columbia, and Robert 



160 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Caldwell, of Charleston,) was captain of one of the revolu- 
tionary whig scouts. He was killed in the Dutch Fork. 

John Clark settled on the Enoree, near the place now 
called Clarke's ford; he was a zealous, staunch whig during 
the war. In a skirmish, at Clarke's ford, under the com- 
mand of Capt. Jones, he was shot through the leg, and 
escaped to a bluff a mile distant. To this place the enemy 
traced him by his blood — took him prisoner. His mother 
furnished him with a little salve and some cloth to bind 
up, and, afterwards to dress his wounds. His captors com- 
pelled him to mount a very poor horse, and thus to ride 
him, with nothing to separate him from his sharp back- 
bone, except an old quilt his poor mother took from her 
scanty bed covering, and gave to him. With his feet bound 
under this garrou, he was compelled to ride in great increasing 
agony to old Ninety-Six, more than forty miles. There he 
was in his wounded condition cast into prison, in the very 
midst of persons suffering under a virulent type of small 
pox. Nine of his fellow prisoners died. He was the tenth — 
and most marvellously got well; he was liberated, made 
his way home, and lived long after the Revolution. His 
descendants are still to be found in Newberry District. 
Capt. Jones, under whom Clarke served, was killed in the 
skirmish, and lies now on the bank of the river; near the 
ford. Johnson, not an inhabitant of the Fork, a brother- 
in-law of Clarke, was taken in the skirmish, and hange4 
on a tree just above the ford. Charles Littleton, (father 
of Mark and Charles,) was taken prisoner, carried to Ninety- 
Six gaol, where he also contracted the small pox, and died 
before he reached home. William Greer was a staunch 
whig and did good service; he was shot and killed by a 
tory in his own house. 

Shadrack Vessels, heretofore spoken of as falling in Sumter's 
defeat at Fishing Creek, was, like his father, a firm, devoted 
whig. Charles Vessels, his father, lived at Snow Hill, (I 
presume now known as Liberty Hill,) opposite Augusta, 
Ga. Charles Vessels was a boat builder. "Whilj the Britieh 
were in possession of Augusta, a sentinel was posted on 
the bank of the Savannah opposite to, or so as to be seen 
from, the boat yard. Vessels conceived the possible notion 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 161 

of killing the poor sentinel on his post. He sAvam up the 
river, with his butcher knife in his mouth, crept upon the 
sentinel and killed him. This icas murder; it belonged not 
to war. 

Charles Vessels was afterwards taken by the British. 
They were altogether uninformed of his murder of the 
sentinel; if that fact had been known, he would have been 
hanged, and justly hanged, on the first tree. He was con- 
sidered as a mere prisoner. On account, however, of his 
turbulent disposition and stubborn spirit, he was put in 
irons and shipped for England. On the voyage the ship 
sprang a leak: the captain proposed to liberate him if he 
would assist in stopping it. He swore he wordd not; and 
wished they might go to hell together. ■ The leak was, 
however, stopped without his assistance. He returned after 
the war, and if my memory be not at fault, I heard of 
his chopping off the head of a sleeping or drunk Indian 
with his broad- axe, at a place where he was building a 
boat, or flat, on the Ogechee. It is stated by my friend 
Col. Maybin, that he, Charles Vessels, after his return from 
England, took charge of the two sons of his son, Shadrack 
Vessels, whom he raised to nearly man's estate, when he 
died. Is it not a mysterious providence, that such a man 
of blood should die in his own bed? The scriptures are 
generally literally fulfilled in that "the violent man shall 
die a violent death." Daniel Mackel Duff, a celebrated 
partisan, was also taken prisoner, and, with Vessels, sent 
to England, where he remained until the war terminated; 
he then returned. He married a daughter of Col. William 
Farr, of Union. He w^as well known as a claimant for 
losses and pensions, during the Revolution, in the State 
Leorislature. 



. No. 10 Continued. 

Col. Ferguson after Cornwallis' victory of the 0th of 
Auo-ust, moved from Camden at the head of the 71st 
1 K 



162 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

regiment, with the view of visiting the tory settletuents of 
the upper country, training their young men, and afterwards 
rejoining the army. In the execution of this plan, he 
passed through Fairfield, crossed Broad River at Shirey'p 
(now Hughey's ferry,) and camped in the Dutch Fork, on 
Heller's Creek, near the late residence of that good citizen, 
David Hentz, who was called from us by his mighty 
Master about the same time that Col. Maybin obeyed the 
same awful summons ! He here remained encamped for 
several days. Resuming his march, he crossed the Enoree 
at Kelly's ford, and encamped in the Fork, at the planta- 
tion of Col. James Lyles, deceased. He thence marched 
by John Robison's, plundered his house, and continued his 
march towards the mountains. Little did this accomplished 
ofiicer, but ferocious enemy of American liberty, dream that 
he was marching to rouse the mountaineers, and that they, 
like the Highlanders of his own native land, would be 
gathered to his overthrow by the fiery and bloody cross, 
which he was preparing by oppression to light and wet 
with blood, and which, though not to be borne from hand 
to hand, as in Scotland, was to be seen and heard from, 
until the whole mountain region of South Carolina, North 
Carolina and Virginia, should be in arms. But so it ivas. 

In less than two months, he and his men, regular and 
militia, were hunted to the death by the hardy mountaineers. 
On King's Mountain, he gallantly met his fate; there he 
and Col. Williams, of the Arnericans, lie with no other 
monument than the naked mountains, and no other requiem 
than the cry of the eagle, as he nightly seeks his mate. 

In January, 1781, Matthew Maybin, James Chandler, 
Mark and Charles Littleton, little Eph. Lyles, and others 
living in the Fork, left their homes to unite with Morgan 
before the battle of the Cowpens. That glorious battle was 
fought and won; and the news reached them on the way. 
Still they were able to do good service. They fell upon a 
part of Tarleton's baggage train at Love's ford, near Gov. 
Johnston's plantation, and captured it; horses, negroes, 
wagons, and all other property, they managed to get safely 
into the block house on Pacolet, where the whole was 
divided among the captors. Seven negroes thus captured. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBEY. 168 

were part of the spoil to which our friends of (ho Fork 
were entitled. 

It is a highly important fact, and worthy of being 
especially recorded, that the inhabitants of the Fork were 
more united in their devotion to liberty, than any other 
settlement in the upper country. When the British regarded 
South Carolina as a conquered province, a proclamation was 
issued, inviting all the friends of the King to remove 
below their line of posts, extending from Ninety-Six by 
Granby to Camden, and that they should be protected; 
only one man from the Fork availed himself of the ignoble 
privilege, and sad was it for him that he did so, for the 
whigs afterwards caught and killed him. 

Heavy, however, were the calamities with which the Fork 
was visited — plantations were wasted, families were in poverty 
and want; and last but not least, nine heads of families, 
in the six miles square, had been forever removed. Five 
were killed; two died in Nmety-Six gaol; one on a prison 
ship at Charleston; and one, Col. James Lyles, who had 
to be carried from home in a litter, with the small pox 
on him, got wet crossing Broad River at the Fish Dam 
ford, and died at Chester. Nine widows and their orphan 
children in the narrow compass of six miles sq^^are, is 
indeed a sad memorial of even a war waged for liberty. 
How slowly and fearfully should we approach a war, which 
is to make our happy homes desolate, our wives and chil- 
dren, widows and orphans, and liberty itself a thing ichich was! 

The inhabitants of the Fork at the Revolution were more 
generally under the influence of religion than, perhaps, 
most of the other settlers, with the exception of the Friends. 
Many of the patriots, herein before mentioned, were members 
of the church. All of them (except the Maybin family,) 
were Baptists. The Baptist meeting house of that day was 
called Littleton's meeting house; it stood on the bank of 
the Enoree at Littleton's ferry, and in the plantation now 
belonging to Major Jesse Maybin. It has undergone two 
removals, and is now located near the village of Maybinton. 

After the Revolution, Samuel E. Kenner, the Hendersons, 
Sims, Hardys and others, immigrated to the Fork; and 
some of the old settlers, Wadlingtons, Littletons, Gordons 



164 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and Lyles', moved south and west. Samuel E. Kenner was 
the step-son of Maj. Spencer Morgan; he was a man of 
great native talent. Few raea of my acquaintance possessed 
a clearer head aud sounder judgment than Samuel E. Kenner. 
Se had considerable information; he had traveled and 
observed faithfully. He had been the super-cargo of one 
of the slave ships employed or owned by Gen. Hampton, 
Ho was twice a member of the Legislature — first in 1810; 
then in 1814. He was universally respected; and his popu- 
larity was such that he could at any time have been 
elected. He was a magistrate for many years. His first 
wife was Patsy Grasty, the daughter of Sashal Grasty; by 
her he had five children, all of whom, although living to 
be men and women, are now in their graves. His second 
wife was Lucy Goree, the half sister of Mrs. Elizabeth 
Maybio, by whom he hal eight children, all of whom, 
except two, are numbered with the dead! He himself, after 
attaining to a good old age, died in 1844. His widow- 
still survives, and resides where he lived and died. 

John Henderson (commonly called Capt. Jack Henderson) 
lived at the place on Enoree, where his son Thomas Hen- 
derson now lives. He was the son of David Henderson, 
and was a married man when he camo from Virginia, 
between '90 and '94. He had then three children. Capt. 
Henderson was a worthy, bold, frank man. When he was 
a friend, he was one indeed; and when he was an enemy, 
it was equally well known — concealment was no part of his 
character. He raised and commanded a fine troop of horse; 
the same afterwards so well commanded by Capt., after- 
wards Col., John Glenn. He gave up his commission in 
consequence of the dispute about the majority between 
himself, Maj. Nance and Col. James Williams, spoken of 
in No. 8. 

He was elected to the Legislature in 1812 and 1814. 
In this last year, when the detachment of troops under 
Col. Means and Maj., afrerwards Gen., Dawkins marched 
fi'ULU Spartanburg and Union to Charleston, they were 
quartered for a night ab Hend ron's. His house and barns 
were opened for their accommodation; his peeves slaughtered, 
and his flour and meal baked for their food; and all 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 165 

without money or price. This was exactly in character 
with his life — he was generous to those whom he loved. 

He died 1st January 1816, in the great epidemic of 
1815-16, which was then, for a second time, experienced 
in Newberry District, and accompanying its ravages went up 
the universal wail of death! Mr. Henderson left a numerous 
family, all of whom survive, except his son D. Waltour 
Henderson, who died in a few days after him, leaving an 
only child, now Mrs. Elvira Nance, of Newberry. None 
more seriously lamented the death of Capt. Henderson than 
the writer of this sketch. He had been his friend when 
he needed friends; and he felt and knew that in him, if 
his life had been spared, he still would have been, as he 
had been. But to that, as all other chastenings, he has 
been able to say, "God's will be done !" 



166 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 



NO. 11. 

The office of Historiographer, whea the materials are 
scattered everywhere, and when traditioa more than written 
authority must bo appealed to, is far from being an agree- 
able one; yet the task of the Biographer, when everything 
depends upon the memory of the writer, or of others is 
still more difficult, and still more disagreeable. In short 
biographical sketches of men of other times, there is, how- 
ever, a rich vein, worth — well worth — being explored. This 
task is about being undertaken, with very imperfect materials; 
still, such as they are, they will afford great interest and 
may lead some one better informed to do greater justice. 

A much valued friend has furnished me with the facts 
which will enable me to speak of a revolutionary soldier at 
'present little known, and at the same time to speak of 
another instance in the History of Newberry, where the 
third generation is in his ancestral home ! Maj. Micajah 
Harriss, one of our best citizens, now in his 53d year, lives 
upon a tract of land granted to Jeremiah Williams, 20th 
June, 1753, lying on Heller's formerly called Williams' 
Creek, which was conveyed by him to the grand-father of 
the present occupant. Burr Calver-t Harriss, 19th January, 
1773; he occupied it until his death; his youngest son, 
Micajah Harriss, succeeded him, and lived upon it until his 
death, in 1814; his widow continued the possession to her 
death, in 1819; she was succeeded by her youngest son, Maj. 
Micajah Harriss, who has ever since occupied, and long may 
he, in honor and usefulness occupy, his j^cci^^i^nonial acres! 
This is another instance where the descendant of an original 
settler is still looking upon the scenes, treading the soil 
familiar to his ancestors, and drinking from the same noble 
fountain from which they drank; here too repose the ashes of 
of the grand-father, grand-mother, father and mother of the 
present owner. How can such an one do otherwise than 
exclaim, 

"This'is my own, my native land !" 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 167 

Burr Calvert Harriss was an immigrant from Virginia, and 
is supposed by his grand-son to have been of English extrac- 
tion. His son, Micajah, was a soldier in the Indian war, 
supposed by my friend to have been Grant's, (but this could 
not have been, as that took place in 1761, and Burr Calvert 
Harriss came from Virginia about 1773). It is probable, he, 
Micajah, took part in the wars with the Cherokees in 1776, 
under the command, probably, of Col. John Lyles, in General 
Williamson's campaign. Micajah Harriss was an active soldier 
of the Revolution, and on the r2th January, 1780, was com 
missioned by Gov. John Rutledge, Ueuteiiant; his commission 
to that effect is still preserved, as a precious relic, and is in 
possession of his son. It should be framed and hung up in 
his parlor, like that of Gen. Marion, which is thus preserved 
in the drawing-room of one of Charleston's noble sons, who 
married the relative of the great Carolina hero ! Micajah 
Harriss afterwards became captain. His services in thf; times 
which tried men's souls were, beyond doubt, arduous and full 
of trials; but the remembrance of them has perished generally.- 
A single instance of the spirit of self-sacrifice of that glorious 
era can be given. He with his wife's brother, James Sheppard, 
were taken prisoners by a tory scout, and were carried to 
some halting point, on King's or Indian Creek, where it was 
proposed to put them to death. 

When a halt was ordered, one of the tories proposed to 
another to shoot them; he offered the unwelcome duty to a 
third, and he to another, until the whole ^ scout declined the 
bloody work. They then offered to the prisoners, if either 
would shoot the other, he should be discharged. This was 
indignantly rejected, Sheppard then said to the captors: "If 
one life would satisfy them, he was single; his brother-in-law, 
Harriss, was a married man, and had one or two children; let 
me, therefore, be the victim." This alternative Harriss would 
not consent to accept. "If one has to die, let us both die 
together," was his manly reply. The tories, struck by the 
self-sacrificing spirit exhibited by their prisoners, discharged 
them on parole; but that they should not depart entirely 
from their usual vocation of blood and plunder, they kept 
Captain Harriss' fine mare which he rode, and sent him 
home on foot. 



168 ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 

In 1781, a party of whigs, under the command of Col. 
Hays, passed in the neighborhood of Coats' shop, (Newberry 
Court House,) to Jacob Brooks', (now the plantation of Har- 
rington Pope.) Two of the party, James Tinsley and John 
Campbell, a lad, son of Cajitain Angus Campbell, of Laurens, 
and brother of the present Dr. Robert Campbell, diverged 
from their direct route to have a horse shod at Coats' shop, 
at the Cedar Spring, just below the village graveyard. Having 
accomplished this, they started to rejoin their companions at 
Brooks'. They were fired upon just about where the barn of 
Drayton Nance, Esq., now stands, on Higgins' road. One 
ball took effect in the bridle arm of Campbell; his mare 
jumped from under him, and accompanied Tinsley in his flight 
to Brooks'. There the command turned out, and retracing 
Tinsley's steps, they found Campbell dead. The persons, who- 
ever they were, who had wounded him, had completed the 
work of death. His companions bore him to Coats' shop. On 
the margin of Scott's Creek he' was buried; and there he 
slept the sleep of death until, in 1849, the excavations for the 
railroad laid bare the remains. They were collected, with 
pious care, by his excellent brother. Dr. Robert Campbell, and 
buried in the family burying ground. 

Shortly before the close of the Revolution, at the Shop 
Spring, about half a mile south of Bobo's Mill, on Bush River, 
a similar thing occurred. A whig scout, commanded by Capt. 
John Sloan, from whose expression about the lock of his 
musket, that it was "stiff of the frizzen," came the saying, 
"stiff of the frizzen, like Sloan's musket," passed the mills, 
called then, after their proprietor, O'Neall's, (now Bobo's.) In 
his command was a man named Ichabod Wood. He was a 
New England man and a sailor. In an almost famished con- 
dition he had, years before, attached himself to the wagon of 
William or Henry O'Neall, in the neighborhood of Charleston, 
and with one or other of these gentlemen had come into the 
interior. He lived much with William O'Neall, and was 
remarkable for his inoflPensivo disposition and industrious 
habits. He was always averse to fire arms, and especially to 
shooting them. He had be'^n married but a short time, and 
was either living on the land of his early patron and friend, 
Wm. O'Neall, or very near to it, when he was summoned to 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 169 

do duty in Sloan's scout. He, Sloan, and the rest of the 
party, were seen to ride into and through Bush River, at the 
old ford below the mills, by William O'Neall and his son, 
Hugh. Soon afterwards they started to walk to dinner at the 
residence of William O'Neall, south of Bush River, and west 
of the mills about half a mile. In their way, they were nearer 
to the Shop Spring than at the mills. A gun was heard to 
tire, and William O'Neall said to his son, Hugh, "That was 
sorely against poor Ichabod's will"; alluding to his known 
dislike to a gun being fired. In a few moments, however, a 
messenger came to tell them that indeed it Avas "sorely against 
poor Ichabod's will," for Ichabod Wood teas shot. It seemed 
that he and Sloan rode to the Shop Spring for water, and 
were fired upon from the thick wood around the spring. The 
ball was no doubt aimed for Sloan. It, however, passed 
through the lungs of poor Ichabod, who in a few hours ceased 
to live. He lies in the quiet yard of Friend's burying gi'ound, 
near Mendenhall's Mills, Bush River. The assassin never was 
discovered. 



No. 11 Concluded. 

I propose to close this number with some slight account of 
the former proprietor of the plantation, now owned by the 
Messrs. Crofts, Capt. Daniel Parkins. Whether his father 
settled the place, I do not certainly know. The family came 
from Winchester, Va., and, I think, consisted of the brothers 
and sisters. I remember to have heard this anecdote in rela- 
tion to the graveyard at that place: One of Capt. Parkins' 
sisters was the wife of Hugh O'Neall, who settled at, and owned 
the mills, on Little River, at the place now called Milton, 
Laurens District. One of his brothers, Thomas O'Neall, died 
at Parkins', and while the family were debating the question 
where he should be buried, a ball of fire, as they called it, a 
meteor, as it really was, passed over the house, and was seen 
to fall where the graveyard is. They regarded it as a divine 



170 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



intimation where the dead was to lie — he was accordingly 
there buried, and thus began the graveyard called Parkins'. 

Capt. Parkins was born in 1758. He was therefore a man 
fully grown before the tide of war reached the interior. Like 
many other good and mistaken men, he was supposed to be a 
loyalist in principle. He, however, took no active part. The 
principles in which he had been raised and educated were 
those of Friends. He owned a mill on Saluda, just below the 
ford (Parkins'.) He was usually employed in attending the 
grist mill and in preparing meal for the country around him. 
A party of v/higs from Indian Creek, to whom he was obnox- 
ious, was on their way to capture, or kill him. Their approach 
was discovered by one of his sisters, while they were yet 
several hundred yards from the dwelling house, which was 
two or three hundred yards from the mill. She started in a 
run to inform her brother of the approach of his enemies. 
They seeing her, and guessing her purpose, put their horses 
in full speed to anticipate her. As soon as she discoverad 
this, she began to halloo, so as to attract her brother's atten- 
tion; the noise of the machinery of the mill joreventod him 
from early hearing the outcry. The leading horse soon came 
along side of her; she seized his bridle, pulled it off his head 
and turned him into the woods, and continued her race; the 
second she served the same way. By this time her brother 
was aware of what was going forward; leaping out of the 
mill, with his gun in his hand, into Saluda, he pursued the 
shoal until he was enabled to reach the island now called 
Pope's, then a dense forest. There ho was safe, for the party 
knew not how to reach it; and if they had been able to do 
so, they never could have found him in its impenetrable 
thickets. 

He married Jane Caradiae, the daughter of Abraham Cara- 
dine, who lived below him on Saluda, at Caradine's ford. 
Soon after his marriage the house was surrounded at night 
by a party of whigs, probably the same who had attempted 
to surprise him at his mills. There was only one manner of 
escape, that was by boldly dashing through the surroimding 
party. Caradine and Parkins sprang from their beds, the 
former snatched down a musket and throwing into its barrel 
a handful of powder and shot, and priming in the same 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 171 

hurried way, he threw open the door and fired upon the 
party, killing one who sat upon the fency just before the door. 
Both took advantage of the confusioE, and sprang out the 
house and ran for their lives. Parkins made good his escape. 
Caradine was an elderly man and ran heavily; he was shot in 
one of the com rows of his field; when the J^arty came to 
where he lay, he enquired "if the rascal he shot at was dead?" 
and being told that he was, he quietly remarked "he was 
satisfied." and soon was himself in the silent house of death. 
Capt. Parkins, after the Kevolution, was regarded by all as 
a virtuous, good man. He had particularly the friendship of 
that gallant old soldier of liberty. Col. Philemon Waters, his 
near neighbor. Either at, or soon after the re-organization of 
the militia, he was elected captain of the Saluda company, 
in the 8th (now 39th) regiment of militia. In '96 he was 
appointed a Justice of the Peace; in '98 he was re-appointed; 
in '99 he was appointed, with Kobert Rutherford, Edward 
Finch, Isaac Kirk and Hugh O'Neall, a Commissioner of Public 
Buildings. He discharged all the duties appertaining so these 
respective appointments in that faithful way which insured 
him the respect of every one. He was a merchant of extensive 
business — at first on his own account, afterwards as the senior 
partner of Capt. Sampson Pope, in Edgefield, and Hugh 
O'Neall, on Bush River, Newberry. He also did an extensive 
business in Greenville, under the management of Mr. Beverly 
Borum. He, by these various pursuits, realized a handsome 
fortune. He was a rich man, but this did not stay the 
approach of the fell destroyer? Many of his children had 
been taken from him in their early life. As early as '99, 
1800, 1801 and 1802, Capt. Parkins' place was regarded as a 
sickly one. Fever and ague was every year a visitant of his 
household. But, in 1802, the angel of death, in the great 
epidemic of that year, entered his house. On Sunday night, 
the 7th of November, his eldest son, Abraham, a noble young 
man, thoroughly trained and educated for a merchant, died. 
On Wednesday, the 10th, his third son, John, a fine, promising 
lad, died. On Thursday, the 11th, his excellent wife, Jane, 
in the 41st year of her age, died; and on Friday, the 12th, 
the sad drama was closed by the death of the husband and 
father! On Saturday, the 13th, in the presence of an immense 



172 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

multitude, he and iiis wife were placed in the same grave, 
and his son, John, alongside of them. During the sickness of 
his family, he had exhibited no particular disease; but as one 
after another died, it seemed as if cord after cord, which 
bound him to this life, was breaking. On the death of his 
wife he announced to his friends that he could not live. He 
desired to provide for two of his widowed sisters, (the Mrs. 
McDaniels) and a nephew, Daniel Parkins. He directed» notes 
for $300 each, to be drawn payable to his sisters; these he 
signed. He then called, for his pocket book, and out of it 
directed $100 to be taken and given to his nephew, and after 
cautioning the attending physician. Dr. Moon, to give him 
nothing to blunt his faculties, he gradually sunk and passed 
away as peaceably as if falling asleep. He left four sons, 
Charles, Isaac, Allen R. and Mark. Charles died in 1807; 
Isaac in 1809; Mark in 1817 — all unmarried. Allen R. became 
therefore the heir and possessor of the fine estate of his father, 
which had rapidly accumulated during his infancy, and had 
been further increased by the addition of his brother Charles' 
estate. He married in 1816, a most amiable and excellent 
lady in Greenville, Miss Paul. He soon sold his fine estate 
in Newberry to Mr. Edward Croft. He resided to his death, 
in 1837, in Greenville District; he left a widow and several 
children. His eldest son, Daniel, recalls to my mind, each 
time I see him, his grand-father. Capt. Daniel Parkins was 
under the common height, but he was remarkable for his large 
compact body and limbs. , Few men possessed as much strength 
and activity. I well remember to have seen him once throw 
down and literally strip a man twice his size, who had treated 
him rudely and torn his clothes. His complexion was sallow, 
arising, I suppose, from his frequent sickness. His eyes, of 
black, were full of intelligence and energy. No kinder man, 
better neighbor, affectionate father, husband or brother, ever 
lived. No firmer man, in all his public or private relations, 
lived in Newberry. Cool in danger, undaunted in execution, 
he passed through life as he died, without quailing at danger. 
His character, in this respect, may be better understood by 
a circumstance of great danger, in which he acted a bold, 
fearless and successful part. In passing , to old Ninety-Six, 
for many years after the war, it was the custom in passing 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 173 

from O'Ncnll's mills, on Bush Kiver, to cross Saluda River, at 
Parkins' Ford, and go up the old Charleston road. Plank 
was then hauled from Bush River to Ninety-Six, as it now is 
from the piney woods to Newberry C. H. A wagon and team 
belonging to Mary O'Neall, and driven by her son John, (a 
lad 17 or 18,) and another belonging to and driven by John 
Jay, were engaged in this business. In one of their tri2:)s, on 
reaching Saluda, the stream was found to be swollen; a con- 
sultation was had, and it was concluded it could be passed. 
The team of Mrs. O'Neall's was in front, and attempted the 
passage before that of Jay. As soon as the wagon reached 
the deep water it floated; as might have been expected from 
its load, (plank.) The consequence was, that down the stream 
went horses, wagon and driver. The latter made every effort 
to extricate his team by cutting them loose, but he either 
failed by losing his knife, or, in the excitement, by not cut- 
ting his hame-strings. Jay attempted to swim to the rescue, 
but was seized with the cramp and had to get upon a rock 
to save himself from drowning. Parkins hearing the noise 
ran to the river, and seeing the dangerous position of the 
young driver and his team, plunged in and swam to their 
rescue. He cut the lead mare loose, and attempting to cut 
another loose, in the struggle the knife was knocked out of 
his hand — he sprang upon the mare cut loose, swam her to 
land, got another knife, ^wam her back, cut loose the other 
horses and saved them, driver and Jay. 

The great epidemic of that year, 1802, called afterwards 
the cold plague, was then first experienced in Newberry, in 
1815-'1G; it again returned, again and again it has since 
re-visited us. But for the last several years it has disap- 
peared; and, it is hoped, never to return. Fearful indeed has 
been the judgments of God in this behalf ! May we avert 
them by humbling ourselves in His mighty presence. 



174 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



NO. 12. 

Col. Robert Rutherford, as one of the early settlers and 
prominent citizens of Newberry District, deserves a prominent 
place in the sketches which we are now attempting. Would 
that I had the honor of knowing him intimately, then I might 
have done something like justice to his name. A friend who 
knew him intimately, and who felt for him all the esteem 
which gratitude creates, has given to me the benefit of his 
recollections. Still our united endeavors will present a very 
imperfect picture Such as it is, it is better than none, and 
therefore it is presented. 

He was born in April, 1734, in the State of Virginia, and 
served his apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, at Hobb's 
Hole, in the neighborhood of which place he married his first 
wife, Dorothy Brooks. How long he resided in Virginia is 
not known; he removed to Chatham County, N. C, where he 
became colonel of the coimty, and this gave him the title 
■\^hich he bore to his death. 

Before the Revolution, or perhaps before 1780, he removed 
to South Carolina, and settled in Newberry District, nine 
miles east of the town, at a place which he called Liberty 
Hill. What part he bore in the Revolution is not known; 
that he was a whig, and perhaps an active one, is shown 
from the position which he maintained in society after its 
close. He was for many years a member of the Legislature. 
He was appointed a County Court Judge at the very begin- 
ning of the system in 1785, and continued to act till 1791. 

In 1791, or 1792, he was called upon to experience that 
greatest misfortune which can befall a man in this world — the 
death of his wife and the mother of his children. He had a 
large family of children by her, one of whom was Mrs. 
Elizabeth Nance, heretofore spoken of; and another, William 
Rutherford, long well known as a citizen of the eastern part 
of the district. In 1795, he married the widow, Frances 



ANNALS OF NEWEERHY. 175 

Harrington, of Union; by her he had no children. Her chil- 
dren, however, received a father's care and attention. 

In 1790, he started one of "Whitney's Cotton Saw Gins; 
this is believed to have been the first pnt in motion in the 
upper part of South Carolina. This great invention is what 
has made cotton the subject of universal trade, and the com- 
mercial agent which now very much governs the monetary 
affairs of the world. Before the discovery of the saw-gin, 
cotton was separated from the seed by the slow process of 
the fingers, or the roller-gin. It was therefore little regarded, 
except for domestic consumption. But when it was found that 
by the saw-gin thousands of pounds of seed-cotton could in 
the day be picked and baled up for market, it became matter 
to which industry could be profitably applied. The cotton 
saw-gin has given to the Southern States the supremacy 
which they now enjoy as producers. In a day of sectional 
hatred, it ought to be remembered — gratefully remembered — 
that Whitney, the inventor of the cotton saw-gin teas a Yankee. 
Great as was his invention, it benefited him little; his patent 
was violated and justice denied to him everywhere, except in 
South Carolina; here he teas j^^^id by the Legislature for his 
invention, and his pateyit made free to the people. This 
model gin stood in the Secretary of State's room until after 
1820. 

About 1809, Col. Kutherford built in the neighborhood of 
the town of Newberry, where his step-son, Y. J. Harrington, 
Esq., afterwards lived, and there he died in 1814, in his 
eightieth year. Col. Rutherford was, I should think, about 
five feet eight; more remarkable for his ponderous heavy grey 
eye broAvs, than any other feature which is remembered. 

He was a man of great energ}^ of character — "whatever his 
hands found to do, he did it with his might." This was 
shown by the success which attended him during life; he 
succeeded in whatever he undertook. As a merchant, planter, 
and public undertaker, he was tried and not found wanting. 
He was one of the first cotton planters in Newberry, and an 
eminently successful one. He was one of the Commissioners 
of Public Buildings with Daniel Parkins, Edward Finch, Isaac 
Kirk and Hugh CNeall, appointed in 1799. Under their 
direction and jealous supervision, was constructed the court 



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176 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

house and gaol, which preceded those now in iise. In 1805 he 
built the Newberry Academy; to this institution he was a 
large subscriber. 

The friend whose pen gave me the benefit of a short sketch 
of the colonel's life and character, says: "He had a heart 
open as day to melting charity, which he never withheld from 
any, (except a drunkard, or a lazy person.) Those gentlemen 
of elegant leisure, he utterly abominated. "TrorA; Sonny,^'' was 
his injunction to such. One of his observations may here be 
very well chronicled: He said people often said "it was too 
dry or too wet to work." God, he said, gave the seasons — it 
was man's duty to work — "work dry, work wet'' — and he never 
failed to find that "God gave the increase."' When a poor 
woman, Mrs. Myers, was left "v\ith a house full of little chil- 
dren, in very difficult, if not destitute circumstances, by the 
death of her industrious husband, John Myers, the rope maker, 
the colonel sent his negroes, horses and ploughs, and cultivated 
her crop. To deserving young men, especially his step sons, 
he extended a helping hand in placing them in situations to 
live and do well. 

His last wife was a very pious lady, who belonged to the 
Methodist communion. The colonel made no profession of 
religion; yet he was always seen at meeting with his excellent 
lady, although he had no great liking for the shouting and 
other violent excitements, which were perhaps more common 
then than noii\ On some occasions, about the commencement 
of tl^p last war, he was at a camp meeting, and just as a good 
deal of excitement was getting up, and as a popular preacher 
was about to offer to sinners the opportunity of asking for 
pardon, the colonel, who occuj^ied a seat in the midst of the 
congregation, rose to make his way out. The preacher seeing 
this, called on all who felt that they were sinners and needed 
a Saviour's pardoning love, to come forward and kneel down. 
The colonel was still receding; again he invited Christians to 
kneel down, still the colonel was erect; at last, said he, "let 
all who are Republicans kneel." This, as the story goes, 
brought the old gentleman down ! He could not bear to be 
coimted as an enemy to the country, under whose glorious 
stars and stripes he had grown to comj^etence and honor, and 
had been blessed with countless blessings. Might not many 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 177 

an one, at the present time, imitate the colonel, and bending- 
down in the presence of the King of kings, ask him in mercy 
to avert that icorst of all evils — Disunion.^, 

I propose next to speak of another of the old settlers of 
Newberry District — William Calmes. He Avas born near Win- 
chester, Va., about the year 1701. At twelve years of age^ 
he accompanied his father to Sonth Carolina, who purchased 
the tract of land before spoken of, granted to Pennington^ 
known as the Canebrake on Enoree, and now the property of 
liichard Sondley, eleven miles east of the town. He returned 
with his father to Virginia, and at sixteen years of age, 
volunteered in the army of the Revolution. He served for 
some time as a private; he Avas promoted to the rank of 
lieutenant, in which ca})acity he served under the command of 
the Marquis De La Fayette, in those brilliant manoeuvers 
which bafifled the skill of the greatest captain of the English 
army, Lord Cornwallis, and finally cooped him up at York- 
town, and delivered him and his fine array captives to the 
great American General, Washington; thus making ''Corn- 
wallis," in the language of a Virginia negro, "Cob-Wallis."' 
This was no bad pun, in a play of words. 

Here I may be pardoned for digressing, to tell a Charleston 
anecdote connected with the surrender of Cornwallis. Count 
Rochambeau, it will be remembered, commanded the French 
forces who aided in the capture of Yorktown. A French 
barber's shop was the general resort of the proud officers of 
the English garrison, then occujiying Charleston for the purpose 
of being shaved. The news of the capture of Yorktov.'n had 
just been received, one of the officers Avas submitting his cKcn 
to be reaped by the handy Frenchman. He said to the bavl)er , 
very contemptuously, '"/ hear jjour great Rochambeau is a. 
barber.'" "A/m," said the knight of the razor, '" Rochap^beau ■ 
one barber! Blgar, me tink he shave CornivaUis damnati'mi 
close!'' It is needless to add, another Briton xras defeated. 

After the war, Mr. Calmes married, and removed to the, 
place before s2:)oken of as bought by his father, and Avhich bad. 
been by his will left to him, about 17S'2 or 17S;>. On this place, 
he resided until ISOO, when he purchased from Abel Insco the 
})lace near the toAvn of Newberry. He removed to it for the 
purpose of educating his children at the Newberry Academy. 
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178 AXNALS OF XEWBEERY. 

He was elected a member of the House of Representatives 
■in 1804, and served his term, (two sessions); he declined to 
be a candidate for re-election, and spent the balance of his 
life (thirty years) in retirement. Ho had a large family, 
eight children, who lived to be men and women, of whom 
tivo now survive; the eldest of whom, Mrs. Nancy Harrington, 
is too well known to require more to be said of her than that 
as a wife, mother and friend, she has few equals. William 
Calmes died 8th January, 183fi, in the seventy-fifth year of 
his age. He was about five feet nine or ten inches high; 
remarkable for the firm, compact figure of his person. He 
possessed singular vivacity and facetiousness — nothing delighted 
him more than to practice some innocent mischievous joke 
upon one of his friends. He bore with singular firmness the 
many trials of life to which he was subjected. While his 
heart was bursting with agony, he was seen externally un- 
moved. Like Col. Rutherford, he had the misfortune to lose, 
many years before his death, his wife — the excellent lady who 
had soothed his sorrows and moderated the whirlwind of his 
passions; and who was the mother of his many children. But, 
unlike him, he did not supply her place. He placed her 
remains in the burying ground, in full view of his evening 
and morning observation. There he sleeps, himself, sxirrounded 
by his children and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren 
He was a Virginian, and possessed the real old Virginian 
character, fearless and frank: He loved his friends; he was 
ready to serve and do them good at all times. We cannot 
say he hated his enemies; we hope that what they called 
hatred, did not permanently abide in his heart. He, however, 
took great pleasure in making his enemies know and feel that 
he knew they w'ere not his friends; and that between him 
and them "^/tere ivas no love lost.''' 

In all his public and private relations he did his duty as 
an ofiicer and as a man. He liberally educated his children, 
and left them an ample patrimony to be shared among them. 
"He is gone, and the place which once knew him, shall know 
him no more, forever;" but he is known in his children and 
numerous descendants, and long may he be thus known — and 
may they, like our country, increase in honor, usefulness and 
glory, until a long line of virtuous and good posterity may be 
traced to him as its head and ancestor. 



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179 



NO. 18. 

Col. Philemon Waters, of whom I am about now to speak, 
was a native of Virginia, and I think he was raised in or 
near Winchester. The time of his birth cannot now be ascer- 
tained; he probably was about the same age as General 
Washington, who was born the 22nd February, 1782. His 
parents died, it is supposed, when he was very young, for he 
was an ap))rentice in Winchester, and was used hardly, from 
an anecdote which I have often heard. He was called by 
both master and mistress, until his stock of patience was com- 
pletely exhausted; and he said to one of his associates, "It 
was Phil, here and Phil there; he wondered what they (his 
master and mistress) would do if the Devil had Phil." He 
had much of his early training in that rough and tumble 
school about Winchester, in which General Morgan and his 
early associates practiced fighting to such an extent as to give 
the village the name of Battle Town. 

In 1754 he enlisted in the regiment raised by the State of 
Virginia to maintain her rights to the territory on the Ohio, 
then occupied by the French. This regiment was commanded 
by Col. Fry; his second in command, the Lieut. -Colonel, was 
George Washington, who in advance of the regiment, took 
post at the Great Meadows, with two companies; in one of 
them, it is believed was Philemon Waters. With these com- 
panies, Col. George Washington surprised and captured a 
party of French, who were on their way to surprise him. 
The commander, M. Jumonville, was killed. On the march of 
the residue of the regiment to join Lieut. -Col. Washington at 
the Great Meadows, Col. Fry died, and the command devolved 
on Lieut. -Col. Washington. He erected at the Great Mead- 
ows a stockade fort (afterwards called Fort Necessity) to 
secure the provisions and horses; and after leaving a sufiicient 
guard to maintain the post, he pushed on with the balance of 
his command, less than 400 men, to attack and dislodge the 
French at Fort du Quesne, at the confluence of the Allegheny 
and Monongahela Rivers, (now Pittsburg). They were halted 
"at the westernmost foot of Laurel Hill," thirteen miles from 



180 



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the Great Meadows, by the iutelligence of the friendly Indians, 
who informed them, in their figurative hmguage, "that the 
enemy were rapidly advancing, as numerous as the jiigcotis in 
the woods r A retreat was deemed necessary, and accordingly 
Col. Washington fell back to Fort Necessity, and commenced 
a ditch around it. Before it was completed, the enemy 1,500 
strong, under the command of Monsieur De Yillier, appeared 
and attacked the fort. The action was continued from ten in 
the morning until dark, when the Frenchman demanded a 
parley, and offered terms of capitulation. Those lirst offei-ed 
were rejected, "but in the course of the night articles were 
signed by which the fort was surrendered, on condition that 
its garrison should be allowed the honors of war — should be 
permitted to retain their arms and baggage, ;md to march 
without molestation into the inhabitated parts of Virginia." 

While this expedition was in progress, an incident in the 
life of Col. Waters occurred, which rests altogether in tradi- 
tion, but which I have no doubt is true, from the source from 
which it is derived. It was stated to have occurred at Fort 
Necessity, and without looking to the historical account of the 
attack, and the surrender of that i)ost, I supposed (as it was 
told to me.) that it had taken place during the siege. This 
version is given in Random Recollections of the Revolution, 
4th vol. Southern Literary Journal, 1)7; but I am now satis- 
tied there is some inaccuracy in this respect, as there was in 
fact no 2)rotracted siege. During the occupation of Fort 
Necessity, the sentinel had been night after night shot down 
at a particular post. Waters was detailed in his turn for 
that station; knowing its dangers, he loaded his musket with 
slugs or buckshot, and took his post, '''wide awake.'' In the 
course of his turn, he heard some noise like the grunting of 
a hog, and observing by the moonlight, at the same time. 
the tall grass of the pvaivie shaking, as if some animal or 
person was moving therein, he put, to use his own expression, 
'"three hails in one," fired and killed two Indians and three 
Frenchmen ! They were on all fours, behind each other, 
stealthily a^jproaching the sentinel, when his well directed fire 
defeated so fatally their purpose. On the surrender of the 
post, the French commander inqiiired for the sentinel, who 
had occupied the post, fired without hailing, and killed the 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 181 

two Indians and three Frenchmen, with a view of excepting 
him (as it was sujiposed) from the amnesty granted to the 
garrison. Washington, unwilling to expose his gallant young 
soldier, for once spoke falsely. He had fallen, he said, in the 
attack and defence of the post. Water.s, in his after life, 
speaking of this incident, said, he stood behind his colonel 
when the question was made and the answer given, with his 
rifle well loaded, primed and cocked, and if, said he, "he had 
said Phil. Waters, he would never have spoken again." 

He was one of the brave Virginians who fought in the dis- 
astrous battle of the Monongahela, where Braddock was defeated 
and slain. Of them Washington said, "The Virginia com- 
panies behaved like men and died like soldiei-s; for I believe 
out of three companies on the ground that day, scarce thirty 
men were left alive." He was present, at an earlier day, when 
the wagoner, Daniel Morgan, received five hundred lashes, 
under the sentence of a drum-head court martial. As this 
affair descended to the author of these sketches as a family 
tradition narrated by an eye witness, William O'Neall, it 
may not be amiss if it should, with a subsequ.ent occurrence 
in the life of the undaunted wagoner, be here stated. Daniel 
Morgan and W JHiam O'Neall were wagoners from Winche.ster, 
Va., in Braddock's army. Morgan, in a frolic, took a twist of 
tobacco from an Indian; he complained to a young British 
officer, possibly the officer of the guard. He most haughtily 
ordered Morgan to give up the tobacco; in perfect Virginian 
recklessness, Morgan replied he "would give it up when he 
got ready." The officer struck him with the flat of his sword. 
No one ever struck the hero of "Battle Toivn''^ witliout being 
struck again, and accordingly he knocked the officer down. 
For this offence he was tried by a court martial, and sen- 
tenced to receive five hundred lashes — and he did receive it, 
without speaking or complaining. To those to whom he could 
speak, he swore he would, if ever opportunity offered, kill the 
officer who had subjected him to this degrading punishment. 
After Braddock's war, he and the officer met, mounted and 
armed, in the mountains of Virginia. Morgan said to him, 
he had long wished for the opportunity which was then pre- 
sented. "I have sworn," said he, "to kill you, therefore fight 
for your life, or," drawing a pistol and presenting it, "I will 



182 a:n'nals of xewberry. 

kill you like a dog." The officer declined the battle. Morgan 
then said to him, "Get down on your knees and beg your 
life.*' This he refused to do. Morgan returned his pistol to 
the holster, remarking to him that "a life which was not 
worth fighting for or begging for, was not icortli taking.'''' He 
rode on, and left his craven oppressor to his own contempla- 
tions. 

Whether Waters remained in the Virginia army till Wash- 
ington's resignation in 1758, I do not know. He removed to 
South Carolina before the Revolutionary war. At its com- 
mencement he lived in Newberry, near the ferry on Saluda 
River, once well known as W^aters', now Holly's. In that 
time which tried men, and showed how far 'professions icere 
suj)ported by acts, he took the part of Liberty and Indepen- 
dence. His sword, which was then drawn, returned not to its 
scabbard until both were won and secured./ He was in the 
battle of Stono, on 20th of June, 1779; he was then a caj)tain, 
and on the retreat from the attack made on the British lines, 
he observed an American field piece, which had been aban- 
doned by its officers and men; he directed his men (some of 
whom are remembered, to wit: John Adam Summer, Samuel 
Lindsey, Thomas Lindsey, and James Lindsey,) to lay hold 
of the drag ropes and carry it off; this was done, and the 
gun saved. It seems from the records in the Comptroller's 
office, that he was a captain in Thomas' regiment, Sumpter's 
brigade State troops, to the end of the war in 1783. It seems, 
too, he served in 1782 as a captain under Gen. Pickens. His 
nephew, Philemon Waters, Jr., better known as Ferry Phil., 
was under his command at the battle of Eutaw, and after the 
action was over, said to him, "Uncle do you call this a battle, 
or a scrimmage f^ I had supposed that in this action he was 
a major; the tradition is, that he then commanded as such. 
But it does not seem, from the public documents, he had any 
such commission. In some of the partisan afPairs with which 
the country abounded after the fall of Charleston in 1780, he 
was under the command of Col. Brandon. He captured a man 
(a Tory) peculiarly obnoxious to the colonel. After this skir- 
mish, when the prisoners were presented to the colonel, he, on 
seeing Waters' prisoner, drew his sword, and was in the act 
of rushing upon him to slay him. Waters threw himself 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 183 

between them, and annonnced to his superior that the prisoner 
was under his protection, and ^'shoiikl not be harmed/'' The 
purpose of vengeance was not abandoned, and Capt. Waters 
was peremptorily ordered to stand out of the Avay. ''Africa." 
said he to his servant, "bring me my rifle"; no sooner said 
than done. "With his rifle in his hand, and an eye that never 
quailed, he said to the colonel. "Now strike the prisoner — the 
instant you do, I will shoot you dead." The blow was not 
struck: the prisoner was saved. He was an active, daring 
ofiicer with a head to conceive and a hand to execute the 
most difficult enterprises. He was in most of the regular 
actions fought at the South, and in many a partisan affair. 
He often said he "never w^as in a pitched battle in which he 
was not defeated." "Eutaw," he said "was the nearest approach 
to a victory in such a battle in which he had ever participated; 
but," said he, in the boastful style pardonable in the veteran 
soldier, "I never fought a i)artisan affair, in which I was 
commandant, in which I was not victorious." After the battle 
of Eutaw, and after the British had been driven to the lines 
of Charleston, Waters erected a block house at his plantation 
at Waters' Ferry, Saluda, and encouraged the deluded tories 
to come in, lay down their arms, and become peaceable citi- 
zens. Many, very many, afterwards valuable citizens, were 
thus saved to the district and State. 

After the war, he was for some time Collector of the 
Taxes, in a part of Ninety-Six District. He. as such, made 
his return to the Treasurer in Charleston, and paid over to 
him the money collected. Money then was in gold or silver? 
or indents; and traveling was performed on horseback, and 
always in som? peril. In the country between Dorchester and 
Charleston this was particularly the case, from a gang of out- 
lying negroes, headed by a notorious fellow named Primiis; 
they robbed all who passed the road by night, or who, like 
wagoners, were compelled to encamp within their accustomed 
walks. Waters passing with a considerable sum of public 
money in his saddle bags, was overtaken by night in this 
suspicious district. He was armed, having his trusty pistols 
in the holsters before him. Thinking about the possiJDle 
danger, he involuntarily laid his hand upon a pistol, cocked, 
and drew it half out of the holster. As his horse passed a 



184 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

large pine tree, the bridle was seized, and a robber stood by 
his side; in one instant Waters' pistol was drawn and thrust 
into the side of the assailant; it fired, and, with an unearthly 
yell, he let go the bridle and fled. Waters put spurs to his 
horse, and galloped to the house where he intended to lodge, 
some two miles distant; there he obtained lights and assist- 
ance, and returned to the spot where he had been attacked; 
there they found a club and a large knife, and blood; follow- 
ing its tracts a short distance, a large powerful negro fellow 
was found shot through the body and already dead. It may 
not be improper for me here to say, that this gang of negro 
HDutlaws was at last driven from their fastnesses in the swamps 
by the Catawba Indians, who were hired by the planters to 
luuit them. Their leader. Primus, and perhaps others, were 
hanged. 

Waters was an eminent surveyor — many of the grants in 
Newberry District were surveyed by him; he and William 
Caldwell located the courthouse square of Newberry District. 
He was a County Court Judge from 1785 to 1791. He was 
repeatedly a member of the Legislature. He was also a 
member of the convention which ratified the Constitution of the 
United States; he was opposed to it, being one of the ultra 
Republican party of that day; but fortunately his opposition 
was vain, and like his great countryman, Patrick Henry, he 
lived long enough under it to rejoice at his defeat, in this 
instance. He was colonel of a regiment of militia in the 
Fork, between Broad and Saluda Rivers, from the peace in 
1783, imtil the reorganization of the militia in 'U4; he was 
not ro elected; his opponent, Joha Adam Summer, was elected 
colonel of the 8tli, now the 39th, regiment. 

When General Washington, in 1791, made the tour of the 
Southern States, Colonel Waters met him at the Juniper, on 
his way from Augusta to Columbia. It was the meeting of 
brother soldiers, who, together, had faced many dangers and 
■shared many difficulties. Both had been great shots with the 
rifle, and on a challenge from the General,, their last meeting 
on earth was signalized by a trial of their skill off-hand, at 
a target one hundred yards distant, with the same unerring 
weapon. Who was conqueror in this trial of skill is not 
remembered. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 185 

Colonel Watei's died between '96 and '99. He was taken 
sick at Newberry, and was carried in a litter by the way of 
O'Neall's (now Bobo's) mills on Bush River, to his then resi- 
dence near the mouth of Bush River, now the property of 
Chancellor Johnstone. To the writer of this sketch, though 
then a mere child, the passage of Bush River through the 
ford by men bearing the litter, seems to be present, indistinct 
it is true, like an imperfectly remembered dream. Colonel 
Waters left four children — Philemon B. Waters, Wilks B. 
Waters, Rose, the wife of Colonel John Summers, and Mrs. 
Farrow, the wife of Wm. Farrow, of Spartanburg. One of 
the Colonel's grandchildren, John W. Summers, was a well- 
known citizen of Newberry, and ought to be gratefully 
remembered by all who prize the Greenville and Columbia 
Railroad, as a great public work, both for his energy and 
success as a contractor. 



186 AXNALS OF NEWEEKRY. 



NO. U. 

The subject of this number is a soldier of the Kevolution. 
alike remarkable for his ready wit, colloquial powers, and 
unflinching bravery ; and yet the incidents of bis life are 
buried in so much obscurity, that it is difficult to disinter 
even fragments ; but it is a dtity which I owe to the living 
and to the dead, to do as much justice to the memory of Dr. 
Jacob Roberts Brown as I can. 

He was a native of Amherst County, Va. He entered the 
army of the United States at the beginning of the Revolution, 
in the Virginia line ; he was a lieutenant, and was, at the 
close of the war, entitled to a large body of valuable land 
granted to him by the State of Virginia, and located in War- 
ren County. State of Ohio, near ^yaynesville. This land, 
about 17UU, he sold to Abijah O'Neall and Samuel Kelly, of 
this district, and who emigrated hence and took possession of 
their valuable purchase. One of the purchasers, Samuel 
Kelly, was still alive in 1850, and able to ride at the great 
age of eighty-seven, and possibly more. Of Dr. Brown's 
actual military service very little is certainly known ; he bore 
his part from the commencement to the close. On the 11th 
of September, 1777, he was one of the Virginians who met 
the British regulars on the field of Brandywine, and of whom 
it was said they "behaved exceedingly well in some of the 
actions of this day, exhibiting a degree of order, firmness and 
resolution, and preserving such a countenance in extremely 
sharp service, as would not have discredited veterans." 

An anecdote illustrative of this, may be here stated, as 
related by one of the actors : Towards the close of the day, 
when the American army was in full retreat, it was found 
that an attempt would be made by the British cavalry to cut 
off a part of the retreating columns. To prevent this it was 
necessary a pass should be gained and maintained; if this 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 187 

could be done, the enemy would be compelled to make a 
sweep of several miles before they could again strike at the 
retreat. A company of Virginians from Washington's imme- 
diate neighborhood volunteered for this perilous duty. They 
were, apparently, indeed a forlorn hope, and were so 
called ; they were commanded by James O'Neall, who sub- 
sequently rose to be a major in the American army, and 
during the war, or at its close, throw the O from his 
name as an aristocratic distinction, and called himself aftar- 
wards James Neall ; he settled and died at Wheeling, Vir- 
ginia. Under his command was his youngest brother George, 
who imitated his example as to the name, and lived and died 
near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Ky. From him the 
particulars herein related have been derived. It was well 
known if they (the forlorn hope) failed to reach the pass 
before the cavalry, they must be cut to pieces. They were 
young, athletic Virginians, accustomed to Indian warfare, with 
nerves strung for any service, and capable of a long and 
steady run. They therefore sprang forward to the race upon 
which depended their own lives and the safety of the army. 
They reached the ground and formed their hollow square, 
covering the pass, as the head of the British column of 
cavalry appeared in sight. A few moments' observation satis- 
fied its commander — he was foiled. Wheeling his squadrons, 
he made the attempt to reach the retreating army through 
the longer route. The perilous duty was now only half per- 
formed ; it remained to rejoin the army. Again the Virginian 
metal and bottom were to be tried, and again they succeeded; 
they rejoined in safety their regiment, under the command of 
Colonel Stevens, and aided in checking the pursuing enemy 
and covering the retreat. Next morning Washington review- 
ing his line, called for the forlorn hope ; they presented arms, 
and were reported as all present. He lifted his hat, and 
with streaming eyes said, "God bless you, boys ; I never 
expected to see you again !'' 

In the action of Brandywine, General LaFayette made 
the first offering of his blood in the cause of American free- 
dom. When, in 1825, he visited South Carolina, and was 
met at Columbia by the Governor, his military family, and 
the militia of Fairfield, Chester, York, Laurens, Newberry, 



188 ANNALS OF NEWBBERT. 

and Lexington, he Avas introduced to Colonel John G. Brown, 
and told that he was the son of Dr. Jacob Eoberts Brown, 
a lieutenant in the Virginia line ; and he instantly said, "I 
remember perfectly, that Dr. Brown, your father, assisted 
in binding up my wounds received in the battle of Brandy- 
wine." Lieutenant Brown was in the battle of Germantown, 
on the 4th of October, 1777. He was probably in Colonel 
Matthews' regiment, which penetrated to the centre of the 
town, and made a large number of prisoners ; but, when 
the American army was forced to retire, they were siir- 
rounded and made prisoners. I do not know, nor is there 
any tradition, that Dr. Brown was taken prisoner ; he was 
badly wounded in the action, and while prostrate from his 
wounds, a column of cavalry passed over him, the hoof of 
one of the horses struck him on the side, breaking one or 
more of his ribs. Of his revolutionary services, I know 
nothing. 

Soon after the Revolution he came to South Carolina; 
indeed, it is possible he might have accompanied the Ameri- 
can army to the South, and remained. He married Christian 
Neely, a rich young heiress, and settled in Newberry, near 
the Laurens line. From '8U to '1)9 he was one of the Judges 
of the County Court of Newberry. During most of that 
time, and perhaps for some years after, he was a member 
of the House of Representatives from Newberry. The late 
Edward Rutledge was a distinguished member of the House, 
during Dr. Brown's service. His habit in speaking was to 
lean against one of the columns ; upon this, very much to 
Rutledge's amusement, Brown wrote, ''It is not fair to shoot 
with a rest, when shooting off-hand is the fashion.'' 

In that time intelligence did not travel by steam or elec- 
tricity. The people generally had not even the ojjportunity 
of reading a newspaper once a month. For what was done 
in the Legislature, they had very much to depend on the 
verbal reports of the members. When Dr. Brown returned 
home from a session, his house was thronged by his neigh- 
bors of Laurens and Newberry, to kiwio ivhat laivs had been 
made. The Doctor was fond of a joke, and one of his 
neighbors, a cynical man of the name of McGinn, was 
always ready to help out anything of the kind at anybody's 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 189 

expense, so that he did not get scathed. A neighbor, an 
Irishman, whom McGinn dubbed "Cooiiey,'^ was often the 
subject of their combined eflPort. On one occasion they repre- 
sented him as returning from Dr. Brown's in great tribula- 
tion, and sayiDg to his daughter, "Hoot, Matty, and what 
think ye — they ha'e taxed the mush pots ; away, away, and 
make a wheen of the mushes, and stack it up, and put away 
the mush pots, so we will no ha'e them to be taxed." Again 
they represented the old gentleman as sitting on Sunday, in 
his own house, listening to the reading of his daughter 
Martha. She was reading the loth chapter of Judges ; she 
read the 4th and 5th verses: "And Samson went and caught 
three hundred foxes, and took tire brands and turned tail to 
tail, and put a tire brand between two tails. And when he 
had set the brands on tire, he let them go in the standing 
corn of the Philistines, and burn up both the shocks and also 
the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives." And just 
as she tinished them, they represented her father as breaking 
in upon her and saying, "Hoot-toot, Matty, what na buke is 
that ye ai-e reading ?" "Father, said she, "It is the Bible." 
"Na, na, Matty; it is none of the Bible. The Bible is a gude 
booke — that is a lying booke. There is Dr. Brown, who has 
got as gude hounds as any Samsou, and he never catched 
three hundred foxes ; put it away, Matty, it is a lying buke." 
When this rather sacrilegious story was reported to the old 
gentleman, he very quietly remarked, "I reckon I ken the 
Scriptures as well as Dr. Brown, and I reckon I read them 
as much." This was a fair Rowland for an Oliver, and the 
Doctor did not soon again crack another joke on his 
neighbor. 

Dr. Brown was an intelligent, useful man ; he cared not 
for wealth ; he improved, therefore, very little his wife's fine 
estate. His own princely estate in the rich military lands 
of Ohio he sold for a very inadequate sum. He took, per- 
haps, the poet's philosophical view of life : 

"Man wauts but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long." 

He certainly, in the most good-humored, easy way, enjoyed 
life. In the year 1805, he was in the act of mounting his 



190 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 

horse to join in a hunting party ; his hunter's horn was 
swung around his neck and resting upon the side injured at 
Germantown ; his horse became restive, and he fell from his 
horse, deeply injuring the wounded side. He died in a few 
days, leaving his wife and four children, John G., Sarah, 
afterwards the wife of Henry Eees Hall, Esq., Willis, and 
Caroline Matilda, afterwards the wife of Dr. Anthony Foster 
Goldincr. 



ANKALS OF NEWBERRY. 



191 



NO. IT). 

In attempting to do justice to the memory of a gallant 
soldier, over whose body the rank gras^ has waved for more 
than sixty years, many difficulties have been encountered and 
overcome ; and yet it is feared that a very poor measure of 
justice will be awarded. 

Colonel David Glenn was a native of Ireland, and emi- 
grated to the then British colonies about '73 or '74. He had 
been married a very short time, previous to his abandoning 
the green fields of his native land. I can very well appre- 
ciate the feelings of the gallant exile, forced by the unnum- 
bered oppressions of British rule, to leave that beautiful 
gem of the ocean, described under the name of Scotia, by 
St. Donatus, while residing in Etruria, now Tuscany, in the 
seventh or eighth century : 

"Far westward lies an Isle of ancient fame, 

By nature blessed, and Scotia is her name, 

Enrolled in books ; exhaustless in her store 

Of veiny silver and of golden ore ; 

Her beautiful soil forever teems with wealth, 

With gems her waters, and her air with health ; 

Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow ; 

Her wooly fleeces vie with virgin snow ; 

Her waving furrows float with bended corn, 

And arms and arts her envied sons adorn ; 

No poison there infects, no scaly snake 

Creeps through the grass or settles in the lake — 

A nation worthy of its pious race, 

In war triumphant, and unmatched in peace.'' 

Colonel Glenn and his wife were among the last of the 
emigrants permitted to leave Ireland before the American 
Revolution. They landed in Savannah, Ga., and thence came 
to South Carolina and settled on Enoree, in Newberry Dis- 
trict, at a place known as Glenn's Mills, now known as 
Brazleman's. Colonel Glenn, like all of the Irish Presbyter- 
ians, acknowledged "it was better to endure some evils than 
encounter the horrors of a revolutionary war'"; but that yet, 
it was still better "fo endure all the 2^'''otracted miseries of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 192 

a revohdionary .sfrugglc, than to fail to enjoy liberty of per- 
son, 2)roperty and conscience.''^ Arriving in America when 
the dispute between the mother country and the colonies 
was waxing more and more tierce, he took the part of 
Liberty and Independence ; and when, in '70, the United 
States declared themselves free, sovereign and independent, 
he made ''no backward step," but grasped with a stronger 
hand and a more determined purpose, the naked sword of 
Independence. Like his noble countryman, General Mont- 
gomery, whose blood stained the ice-bound rocks of Quebec, 
he was ready to water with his the woods of his adoi)ted 
Carolina. 

Until the fall of Charleston (11th of May, 1780), the upper 
part of South Carolina scarcely knew the Revolutionary war, 
except in name. True, she had seen Colonel Eichardson's 
gallant army in Decemb'^r, 177r), commonly called the Snow 
Camps ; had heard the thunder of Moultrie's guns of deliver- 
ance, directed from the first Palmetto fort of liberty against 
the wooden walls of old England, and wept over a few of her 
slaughtered sons on the 2r)th June at Stono, on the Uth of 
October, 177U, at Savannah, yet, in the main, jieace pervaded 
the country above tide-water. That horrible desolating war, 
which armed fathers against sons, sons against fathers, 
brother against brother, and neighbor against neighbor, had 
not yet commenced. After the fall of Charleston it began, 
and for nearly three years it swept with unmitigated fury over 
South Carolina, above the falls in the great rivers. At the 
close of the war, Ninety-Six District, which then covered all 
the tract of country lying above a line drawn from the Silver 
Bluff on the Savannah River N., 17° E., by the mouth of 
Rocky Creek on Saluda River, to Hughe's Ferry on Broad 
River, numbered, according to Ramsay's History of South 
Carolina, "fourteen hundred widows and orphans I"' 

According to the public records, it seems that Colonel 
Glenn, as a private soldier on horseback, did duty from 1st 
October to the oth December, 1780. During this time, he 
must have been on duty with General Sumter, and must have 
participated with him in the glorious defeats of Major 
"Wemy's at the Fish Dam on Broad River, on the 12th of 
November, and of Tarleton, at Blackstock's on Tyger, en the 



^N'XALS or NEWBEERY. 193 

20th of the same month. The tradition in his family is, that 
he bore his part in this Last, but of the former they have no 
remembrance. Being, however, in his term of service, and 
in his immediate neighborhood, it is fair to conchide that ho 
was one of the glorious militiamen who, rallied by the Game 
Cock of the revolution, after the disastrous defeats at Camden 
and Fishing Creek, were cheering their country with the hope 
of liberty, even in her uudoived weeds. From the 2r)th of 
December, 1780, to the 4th May, 1781, one hundred and 
thirty days, he was on active duty as adjutant and commis- 
sary, under the command of Colonel James Giles and Colonel 
John Lindsey, then a captain. In this interesting period, was 
fought the battle of the Cowpens, on the 17th of January, 
1781- -in it Colonel Glenn participated, and was probably on 
duty as adjutant of Colonel James Giles' militia command. 
How or when Colonel Glenn and his companions were 
attached to General Morgan's little army, does not appear ; it 
is probable, when Morgan reached Grindall Shoals, on Pace- 
let, and there encampad and sent off Colonel Washington, 
at the head of his own regiment and two hundred militia 
horse, to attack a body of Tories who were plundering the 
Whig inhabitants, that Colonel Glenn was a part of that 
command which routed them at Hammond's old store, (now 
Huntsville, Laurens District,) and a part of which, on the 
next day, under Cornet Simmons, captured William's Fort 
on Little River, where General Cunningham commanded. 
This is rendered probable by the tradition in Colonel Glenn's 
family, tbat on Green's retreat from the siege of Ninety-Six,. 
Colonel Glenn accompanied Morgan, and thus was present at. 
the battle of the Cowpens ; but the battle of the Cowpens. 
preceded the siege of Ninety-Six by several months, and Mor- 
gan never was in South Carolina, after the retreat from tho 
Cowpens. The probability, therefore, is, that by confounding 
his services on the line towards Ninety-Six, under Colonel 
Washington and the retreat, as Tarleton's column placed its 
head upon the road leading through Newberry to Ninety-Six, 
to a junction with Morgan before the battle of tho Cowpens, 
this tradition, erroneous in its main features, was created. It 
is, however, sufficient for us to know that at the Cowpens 
Colonel Glenn was present, and most likely as part of Wash- 
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194 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

ingtou's cavalry. Foi- in that aroi of servico his first tour of 
duty (a private on horseback) had been jierformed. His 
family have preserved the remembrance that ho was at the 
siege of Ninety-Six, commencing the 23d of May, and ending 
the 19th of June, 1781, although the public accounts do not 
notice any of his services as then rendered. The probability 
is, that his death, immediately after the close of the Revolu- 
tion, prevented his accounts from being properly stated, that 
this is still rendered more probable, by the fact his family 
were never paid one cent for his variously revolutionary ser- 
vices ! I hope they will be yet paid — for, notwithstanding 
the great lapse of time, in the language of Samuel Far- 
row, Esq., "time, or the Statute of Limitations, never ought 
to prevent the payment of the just claims of any revolution- 
ary soldier." 

It appears from the Comptroller General's accounts, that 
Col. Glenn, as the Lieutenant Colonel commanding the lower 
regiment in the Fork between Broad and Saluda Rivers, was 
on duty from the 20th of September, 1781, to the 1st of 
April, 1782; and from the 1st of May, 1782, to 1st of June, 
1782. Here again is another oversight in stating the services 
of Colonel Glenn. He was in the battle of Eutaw on the 8th 
of September, 1781. There occurred an incident which he 
ever after lamented. In the pu.r3uit of the British, when their 
lines gave way, and fled before the vigorous charge of the 
American troops, Glenn overtook a British soldier, and ordered 
him to the rear, as a prisoner. The man, frantic with terror, 
seized Glenn's horse by the bridle, and begged for his life ; 
he was told he was a prisoner — he was safe ; still he clung 
to the reins. He was ordered to let them go; he still held 
on. At this juncture, two of the British dragoons were seen 
approaching. Glenn had no other alternative than he or the 
prisoner should die ; the latter fell beneath his sword, and 
thus freed, he was able to save himself. 

Many incidents common to the partisan warfare of '81 and 
'82 occurred, which must be given without reference to date. 
Colonel Glenn was a stern, uncompromising Whig, who never 
took protectio)i, and who exhibited imceasing hostility to the 
Tories, murderei-s, and horse thieves, with which the country 
aboiTuded. His life was, therefore, sought by them with un- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 195 

appeased avidity. Oa one occasion, Cunningham's mounted 
loyalists, as they were designated in the British service, 
surrounded Col. Glenn's house. A demand for entrance was 
made. Col, Glenn, not knowing why, or by whom it was 
made, sprang out of bed, and without dressing himself threw 
open the door. He was instantly seized by two of th?t ruthless 
band, whose previous or after service had obtained for them 
the unenviable distinction of the "Bloody Scout." On seizing 
him, they inquired for a man named McClusky, a friend of 
Colonel Glenn, who lodged with him that night. Not know- 
ing still the party or their purpose, he informed them that 
McClusky was asleep in the upper part of his home. In a 
few moments a party had climbed to his place of rest, and 
stabbed him with their bayonets. He begged for his life, and 
that being unavailing, ho cried murder, murder, at the top of 
his voice. This was more than Colonel Glenn could bear; he 
called for the officer in command, and demanded protection 
for his friend. The men who had hold of him (Colonel Glenn) 
ordered him "hold your tongue; your turn will be next." In 
an instant after, feeling that the grasp of his keepers had 
relaxed, he, undressed |as he was, by a violent eifort, jerked 
loose, and sprang through the crowd, and out at the door, 
and notwithstanding it was a clear moonlight night, he made 
his escape through his peach orchard. Several guns were 
fired, none took effect. In his race, he passed one of the 
party, who had retired for a few moments, and was in the 
comer of the fence, near to which the colonel passed; hear- 
ing the cry of shoot him, he snatched up his gun, which was 
lying by his side, and aimed it at the colonel; fortunately, it 
snapped; and l^efore he could again prepare to shoot, Colonel 
Glenn had jumped the fence, and was sheltered by the trees 
of the wood ! 

At another time, excited to vengeance, bloody vengeance, 
by the death of a brother, Dick and Ned Turner, two of 
Cunningham's boldest and bloodiest braves, accompanied by 
Bill Elmore, and very probably others of their associates, 
made a descent upon the Whig settlement of the Long Lane, 
and captured two Whig lads, Robert and James Dugan, tied 
them and took them about a mile from home, where they left 
them under guard. The paity went on to the houses of John 



196 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Ford aad Jacob Anderson, and shot them both. They in- 
quired for William Wil-son (the uncle of Col. Wilson Nesbitt,) 
and Col. Glenn; fortunately, they were not at home, and thus 
escaped a vengeance which never knew to pity or to spare. 
Both were absent on the expedition to Eutaw. The party 
thus foiled as to two of their victims, returned to their prison- 
ers, and hewed them to pieces. The next morning their poor 
mother, accompanied by Robt. Mars, found their bodies ; one 
had his hand chopped off, the other a thumb and linger cut 
off; one of their heads was literally split open ! The weepmg 
mother, and sympathising friend, gathered those mangled 
remains, wrapped them up in sheets, and buried them without 
coffins! Horrible! horrible! is the exclamation of humanity; 
yet to such sad scenes must humanity come in civil tear! It 
is the tradition, in Colonel Glenn's family, that Capt. AVilliam 
Cunningham commanded this party, and that his sword per- 
formed the shameful butchery to which I have just alluded. 
But I am sure it is a mistake. One who lived in those times, 
and who knew most of those who acted and suffered on that 
occasion, assured me that it was the sudden outbreak of two 
ferocious spirits, Ned and Dick Turner, raging like tigers to 
be slaked with blood ! Cunningham's memory is loaded with 
a sufficient load of blood and vengeance, without adding to it 
the acts of others. He 7cas not j^t^^sent on that bloody night. 

The Long Lane settlement, consisting of Glenn, Casey, Wil- 
son, the Dugans, Virgins, Murrays, Mars, McCrackens, Smith, 
Colonel John Lindsey, and others, was thoroughly Whig, and 
hence the inhabitants were often struck at privately, and in 
detail, by the Tories. They never met them in a fair field 
and in broad day, icithoiit repenting ilieir temerity. 

On one occasion, probably before the event just alluded to, 
a party of Tories from below stopped at old George Mont- 
gomery's, who then lived near where Col. Rutherford once 
lived, (lately called Bauskett's, now Wadlington's) and having 
previously heard that .Col. Glenn had returned from a tour of 
duty, and was probably at home, inquired the way to Glenn's 
mills. Montgomery suspecting their object, directed them some 
rather roundabout way ! A.s soon as they were out of sight, 
throwing a bushel of corn on his horse, to cover his real pur- 
pose, if he should fall in v^^ith the party, he went to Glenn's 



ANNALS OF NEM-BERRT. 197 

mill over the nearest route he could, and found the colonel 
in his mill ; he had not more than time to wai a him of the 
approach of his foes, and to give him time to plunge into 
the canebreak on Enoree, and conceal himself, before his 
house and mill were surrounded. The bird was flown; and 
all that vengeance could do, was to pour out execrations upon 
his name, and to call down impotent vengeance on his hea^' 

During the war, probably while acting as commissary for 
Capt. Lindsey's command, Col. Glenn and other Whigs made 
a tour beyond Bush River, through a notoriously disaffected 
settlement; ; on their return, they halted at Jacob Chandler's 
(known as Chandler's, now Senn's mills.) Col. Glenn was an 
expert swordsman ; a Tory, or one who had taken protection, 
a man of the name of Steen or Skein, challenged him to a 
bout, at fencing. This is always a dangerous game with 
swords. But with swords, they passed through all the varia- 
tions of attack and guard ; striking, thrusting, parrying and 
guarding without harm. Glenn supposing the game over, was 
in the act of putting up his sword, when his cowardly oppo- 
nent struck him a backhanded blow, on the jaw-bone, inflicting 
a deep wound, and knocking out one or two of his teeth. 
James McCart, (a brother Irishman,) on seeing the dastardly 
act, fell upon Steen or Skein, and took ample vengeance for 
the wound inflicted upon Glenn. In the meantime, Cap^ 
Lindsey (afterwards Col. Lindsey) sewed up Glenn's wound 
and otherwise dressed it, so as to secure it, and render the 
colonel as comfortable as possible. As soon as this was done 
he sought his assailant, and on finding him prostrate and 
bleeding from McCart's wounds, he sheathed his drawn sword, 
saying "it should never be said that it took two men to kill 
such a dastard." This piece of foul play, it was believed by 
Col. Glenn's friends, was the result of a premeditated scheme 
to cut him off. 

Col. David Glenn, George EufP and Esq. Leitner were the 
Representatives of Newberry in the first Legislature of Sovith 
Carolina, which met in Charleston after the war. This was, I 
see on referring to the Public Laws, in March, '38, John 
Lloyd was President of the Senate, and Hugh Rutledge, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

One among the many losses sustained by Col. Glenn during 



198 ANNALS OF NEAVBEREY. 

the Bevolutionary war, was that of a vahiable negro man, who 
was taken by the British to St. Angustine, East Florida. 
Thither, in 1784, Col. Gk^nn pursued him, in the hope that 
he would be restored to him ; but he was disappointed ; before 
his arrival, he was shipped to the West Indies, and was thus 
forever lost to his owner and family. Returning thence, he 
was for a part of the way exposed to a summer's sun, in the 
open boat. He reached Savannah in June, 1784, and there 
sicknened, and died in a few days. He left a widow and five 
young children, four sons and a daughter. His daughter be- 
came the wife of John Eogers, of "Union, near Goshen Hill ; 
she is no more; but her son. Gen. James Rogers, in all that 
is good, true, honest and firm, may well be hailed, as a worthy 
descendant of a Revolutionary soldier, "without fault and with- 
out fear." Three of his sons, David, Colonel John and Dr. 
George W. Glenn, still survive, and are entitled to all the 
love, veneration and respect which good and useful men may 
claim. • 

Col. Glenn was of ordinary height, stout, well proportioned 
and of a florid complexion. He had an Irishman's lieart, he 
was generous and liberal, always ready to relieve the needy 
and distressed as far as his means extended. He was rather 
a taciturn man ; but was prompt to act ! An insult never 
passed without being resented ! 

"By reedy Euratos no braver e'er trod, • 

When Greece against all Persia stood up in her pride, 

And Pallas awoke in each bosom a God, 

Than when, at liberty's summons Glenn stood by her side 



AXNALS OF XEWBEEEY. 199 



NO. 10. 

Having indulged very much ia attempting to rescue from 
oblivion the names of some of the worthy men of Newberry. 
I propose to-day to present one of the women of Newberry, 
over whose head near ninety-three years have fulfilled their 
cotirse ; and still she is here, one of the children of life.* 

Elizabeth Gill am was born in Charlotte County, Ya., about 
the loth of October, IToT. Her parents, William Caldwell 
and Rebecca, his wife, were imrnigrants from Ireland. They 
first located themselves in Pennsylvania, thence the tide of 
emigration setting southwardly, carried them to Virginia, where 
they arrived about 1749 ; they settled on a very nnclassically 
named creek ; indeed, one the name of which I hope has long 
since been changed or lost in the lapse of time. Their resi- 
dence, however, was on Louse Creek, Charlotte County, and 
there Elizabeth was born. 

I am informed that the ancestors of Mr. Caldwell were of 
French origin ; that they were Huguenots, who fled from 
France in 1085, at the revocation of the edict of Nantes; part 
settled in Scotland, another part in Ireland. William Cald- 
well, the father of Elizabeth Gillam, died in Virginia, leaving 
nine children — four sons and five daughters, John, William, 
James and David, Margaret, Mar'ha, Eleanor, Elizabeth, Re- 
becca and Sarah. In 1770, the widow, Mrs. Rebecca Cald- 
well, and her numerous family, removed to and settled 
on Mill Creek, in Newberry District. This emigration was 
induced by her eldest son John, who was an active, en- 
terprising man, and a distinguished surveyor. It is possible, 
as is suggested by a member of the family, that Patrick 
Calhoun,"!" had previously married Martha Caldwell, and had 
settled in Abbeville, and that to visit them, first induced John 

*She died since this was written, ninety-six years old. 

TFrom a document which I have seen in relation to the Philadelphia or 
American Land Company, I observe that the name of Patrick Calhoim 
was once written Patrick Colquohoun. He died in 1796. 



200 ANXAL3 OY Ni:W^32R3V. 

Caldwell to leave YirgiDia. But I fear there is some mistake 
here; for none of the Calhoun's children of Patrick and Martha? 
with whom I have been acquainted, would be now (1850) 
eighty years old. The probability is, all the family came to 
South Carolina together, and that John Caldwell's previous 
exploration of the country led to their removal. It is a very 
remarkable fact, that this numerous family were reared to be 
men and women, and all lived to marry, and, with the excep- 
tion of John, all had children. Of the sons, John, William 
and James, I shall have occasion to speak hereafter. David 
was a mere boy in the devolution, and was so deaf as to be, 
in a great degree, incapacitated for the active duties of life. 
He, however, lived to be an old man, and had a numerous 
family. The daughters, Margaret married John Eitchie, Martha 
married Patrick Calhoun, (and was the mother of John C. 
Calhoun,) Eleanor married John Moore, Elizabeth married 
Robert Gillam, Rebecca married Josiah East, and Sarah mar- 
ried Dr. Martin. Their numerous descendants are scattered 
over South Carolina and the Southwe.3t. They themselves, 
with the exception of Mrs. Gillam, in 1S50, have passed away, 
and the place which once knew them shall know them no 
more forever ! 

Mrs. Gillam w^as a girl living with her mother during the 
Revolution, and had of course to submit to many of its priva- 
tions, and to undergo many of its trials. In November, 1781, 
Cunningham's celebrated foray, known as the '"bloody scout," 
took place. He and his men were, no doubt, led on to the 
horrible butcheries which they committed, by corresponding 
deeds of violence committed by some of the "Whigs; and 
especially by the sufferings of the wives and children of the 
Tories, who, under Gov. Rutledge's orders, had been forced 
from their homes, and sent down to the British lines at 
Charleston. Cunningham, as I am now informed, crossed 
Saluda at Anderson's mills, now in the plantation owned by 
Cooper Boazeman. He then passed up the river by Daniel 
Dyson's, William Burgess', John Wallace and Robert Gillam's, 
to John Caldwell's, burning every house on the way, and 
plundering every thing which could be found. At Ensley's 
shop, he or his party, killed Oliver Towles and two others. 
Mrs. Gillam, alone, visited the shop soon after they left, to 



ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 201 

discover what consequences had followed from the r'epo.o of 
the guns. She found the lifeless bodies of Towles and two 
others ; one of the bodies, as in mockery, was regularly 
stretched, or laid out, on the vice-beuch. She was the first 
of her family at the smoking rains of her brother's -bouse ; 
his body was lying on the face in the yard ! The widow was 
frantic with grief, walking around the smouldering ruins of 
their onc3 happy home, and uttering such cr'es and lamenta- 
tions as none but the bereaved widow can be justified in 
utterin.o-. The account of this bloody transaction, a'5 remem- 
bered by the surviving relatives of Major Caldwell, is that given 
by his widow. She saw the party before they arrived at the 
house, and persuaded her husband to make his escape. His 
reply was, that he had done them no harm, and he, therefore, 
had nothing to fear. The party halted at the gate, and 
hailed : Caldwell walked out, and when wiibin a few paces, 
Cunningham drew a pistol and shot him dead ! If this be 
correct, it constitutes a still heavier load of infamy to be 
placed upon the name of "bloody Bill Cunningham." But I 
confess that I think either Mrs. Caldwell was mistaken as to 
the person perpeti'ating the deed, or that in the lapse of 
years, some inaccuracy has crept into the recollection of it. 
The account taken from the lips of one who knew John 
Caldwell well, and who also had full opportunities of hearing 
the true version, and who certainly never failed to remember 
correctly, will be found at p. 42, 4th vol. Southern Literary 
Register. I extract it as follows: 

"On his (Cunningham's) march to Edgehill's, Col. Hays' 
station, he passed the house of his old commander, John 
Caldwell. Two of his men, Hal Foster and Bill Elmore, were 
his videttes in advance. They found Major Caldwell walking 
in his garden, shot him down, and charged their horses in 
and out of the garden in fiend-like sport. When Cunningham 
arrived, he affected to deplore the bloody deed — he protested, 
with tears, he would as soon have seen his own father shot 
as Major Caldwell. Yet, in the next instant, his house, by 
his orders, was in flames, and his widow left with no other 
covering than the heavens, seated by the side of her mur- 
dered husband." 

His account is confirmed by that given in Cui-win's Memoirs, 
p. G44, in which it is said : 



202 ANNALS OF NEWEEKRY. 

"On their way to Hays' station, some of the men, led on 
by one "Elmore," seizing the opportunity of Cunningham 
being at a considerable distance behind, proceeded to Capt. 
Caldwell's house, and finding him at home, they killed him 
and burned his bouse. When Cunningham came up, he re- 
gretted what his men had done; but it seems doubtful whether 
he could have restrained them, bearing as they did, such 
determined hatred towards their victim." 

In the following incident Mrs. Gillam bore a part: In the 
years '81 or '82, (probably the latter,) a lad, James Creswell, 
afterwards Colonel Creswell, remarkable for his active hostility to 
the Tories, was at Mrs. Caldwell's, (Mrs. Gillam's mother.) A 
negro gave the alarm that Tories were approaching; in an instant 
the old lady directed her daughter Betsey (Mrs. Gillam) to hide 
herself, and Creswell to dress himself in clothes of her daughter, 
which she furnished. This being done, as the Tories were 
a2:)proaching the house, she ordered her own horse and that 
of her daughter Betsey's to bo saddled, as she was compelled 
to visit Mrs. Neely. No sooner said than 'done; Sambo had 
the horses at the door. The old lady called Betsey — "come 
along," said she, "I am in a hurry." Out walked Creswell in 
Betsey's toggery, her bonnet slouched over his face covered 
his features ; he and the old lady mounted in the presence of 
the Tories, and away they went to visit Mrs. Neely, Avhile the 
Tories set about searching for Jimmy Creswell ; but they 
searched in vain ; they found the true Betsey, and then be- 
came aware that Creswell had escaped ; they soothed them- 
selves by sweeping pretty much all Mrs. Caldwell's household 
goods. One of them swore he thought Betsey took mighty 
long steps, as she went to her horse. 

At the close of the Revolution, Elizabeth Caldwell married 
Robert Gillam, the son of a Revolutionary officer, and himself 
a gallant soldier of the same stormy period. The Revolution 
had stripped them of all their property. Robert Gillam's 
account of tis commencement in the world, in his own words, 
is well worth preserving : "After I was married," said he, 
"my father gave me land for a settlement. I took my axe 
and went out into the woods about a mile from his residence 
to select a place for a house, leaving my wife to prepare my 
breakfast and bring it to me. I found a spring, and chose a 



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203 



place to set my house — cut down a tree for the first log, 
measured it, and began to think on the prospect before me. 
la my soliloquy, I said to myself: I am here without means, 
without help, and about to commence to provide for a family, 
without a thing to stand on. What shall I do? I have been 
so long in camp, I am not used to work. I think I had 
better (]^uit the job, and run aivay. While thus musing, 1 saw 
my wife coming in search of me with my breakfast. When 
she came up we sat down together on the log, I to eat my 
breakfast and to talk, and she to look on and hear ; I stated 
to her my plan for the house, but at the same time told her 
the prospect of living was bad; the difficulties great, and I 
could not see how I could get along and ovei'come them — and 
finally, that I did not know what to do. (The notion about 
running away, I kept to myself.) She, woman-like, listened 
to my doubts and fears ; cheered mo by pointing to others 
around us worse off than we were ; and finally encouraged me 
to go on to work, and try to do the best I could. My meal 
(said Mr. Gillam,) was finished ; I mounted the log, cut it off. 
and thought no more about running away." By honest, un- 
tiring industry, ho and his wife overcame their early difficul- 
ties and obtained a competence. Mrs. Gillam was the mother 
of six children; three died in infancy.— Her oldest child, 
Sarah, married Philemon B. Waters, Sheriff of Newberry Dis- 
trict ; his early death in 1807, left her a young widow. She 
married a second husband, William T. Sheppard, by whom 
she had several children ; both he and she are dead. Mrs. 
Gillam's two other children, sons, William and James, are 
alive. William lives at Pilot Mountain, N. C. Gen'l. James 
Gillam is a well known and highly respected citizen of Abbe- 
ville; with him his aged mother now lives, and of her he has 
most justly remarked, that "she and_all the other members of 
the Caldwell family were Presbyterians, and hence she was 
strict in the instruction of her children. She strove to rear 
them up in the way in which they should go, so that when 
they should be old, they should not depart from it ; and 
whatever pretensions I may have to a moral or religious 
character. I must mainly (under God) attribute it to her. I 
still remember many of her early maxims and pious trainings; 
and althoucrh I have often abused them and have wandered 



204 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

far from (hem, yet they have been indelibly impressed on my 
memory. Her own education was very limited — she enjoyed 
few advantages and facilities for her task, yet she did the 
best which she could, and for which I hope ever to be grate- 
fal." 

She was baptized in infancy, by the Rev. Patrick Henry, 
uncle of Virginia's celebrated orator. She was long a member 
of Little River Church, near Belfast, Laurens ; but when 
Aveleigh Church, near Newberry, was oiganized, she became 
a member of it. A year ago, I was permitted to see this 
venerable lady, then in her ninety-secoad year; she was then 
walking about, having lost the sigbt of one eye, and very 
much her memory ; sti^l he-; health was good, and I shouM 
not be surprised if she shouM attain her mother's great age 
of ninety-nine years. (In 1807 M-s. Rebecca Caldwell died 
on Mill Creek, at the gieat age just mentioned.) Mrs. Gillam 
is under the middle s'ze ; she never could have been called 
beautiful, yet she had, rnd has yet, that kind, honest face 
which makes one always lo get the abseace of beauty. She 
possessed a strong, vigorous mmd, unti'-iag industry, cheerful, 
good humor and great love of social intercourse. She has 
long been a widow, and has borne a Avidow's lot with the same 
cheerful resignation to her mighty Master's will, with which 
she has passed through life. She is eminently pious. That 
her duties as a wife and mother were well fulfilled, needs no 
other proof than her husband's account of how she strength- 
ened him to begin life, and her son's account of the rearing of 
her children. Of, and to her, may we not say, in the Ifiguage 
of scripture, "many daughters have done virtuously, but thou 
excellest them all." 



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NO. 17. 

I am about to speak of a gentleman, one of the earliest 
settlers of the district, a leading Whig, a well known man in 
the stormy period of the Revolution, John Caldwell; and yet, 
notwithstanding all this, it is with difficulty that a meagre 
account can be given of his life. His father and mother have 
already been spoken of in the life of his sister, Mrs. Gillam. 
Why, or when he came to this State, is not clear. My friend 
who kindly furnished me with some of the materials from 
which I ^all compile an account of his life and services, 
supposes that he came here to visit his sister Martha, the 
wife of Patrick Calhoui, who settled, as he supposes, on Long 
Cane, in 175G. In the debate of a law in the Legislature of 
the colony, to give a premium of so many shillings for a 
wolf's scalp, Patrick Calhoun is represented as saying he 
would much rather "c/i'e a jMond for a laivyefs scalp.'^ He was. 
the same who, in 1764, was called Captain Calhoun, and who, 
at the head of a company of rangers, was directed to escort 
the Palatines to their settlement called Londonderry. 

"Whatever was the motive of Mr. Caldwell in visiting South 
Carolina, it seems he was here certainly in 1769, and probably 
earlier. He was an eminent surveyor, and located much of 
the land in Newberry District. Some of the plats made by 
him bear the date of that year. He settled permanently on 
Mudlick, near Little River, as early as 1770, for deeds of 
that date to him speak of him as John Caldwell, of Little 
River. Before this time it seems he was married in Mecklen- 
berg, N. C. 

He was a member of the first Provincial Congress in South 
Carolina, which met at Charleston, 11th January, 1775. His 
colleagues for the district between Broad and Saluda Rivers 
where John Colcock, Rowland liugley, Esq., Jonathan Downes, 
Esq., Messrs. John Satterwhite, James Williams, John Wil- 
liams, John McNees, Charles King and George Ross. It will 
be seen, on referring to Moultrie's Memoirs 1st volume 17, 
that at that day John Caldwell bore the title of major, and 



206 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY, 

that he was the leading member from his district. This con- 
gress chose Charles Pinckney to be their president, and Peter 
Timothy their secretary. They approved the declaration, or 
bill of rights, and the association agreed on by the Conti- 
nental Congress. They adopted resolutions sympathizing in 
the sufferings of the people of Massachusetts in consequence 
of their opposition to the action of the British Parliament, 
approving the resolutions of the Continental Congress, and 
returning thanks to their own members to that body, and also 
to the members of Congress in general. They recommended 
the use of their oion flour and other manufnctures, and that 
no action for debt should be commenced or prosecuted in the 
Court of Common Pleas, and that no seizure or sale under 
mortgage should be made without the consent of the com- 
mittee of the district or parish where the defendant resided. 
They appointed committees to execute the Continental Asso- 
ciation (which was pretty much for non -intercourse with Great 
Britain). The committee for the districts in the forks between 
Broad and Saluda were, Col Thomas Fletchall, Major John 
Caldwell, Messrs. Charles King, John Williams, John Satter- 
white, Jonathan Downes, James Williams, James Creswell, 
John McNees, Robert Cunningham, George Ross, Samuel 
Savage, John Thomas, John Ford, John Caldwell, John Gor- 
don and John Prince. Those whose names are italicised in 
the Provincial Congress and the committee were afterwards 
Tories. The John Caldwell whose name appears towards the 
last of the committee was he who had been mentioned in No. 
10, and who was killed at the head of a Revolutionary scout 
in the Dutch Fork, and I am very much inclined to think 
that the person called John Gordon in the list of the com- 
mittee was Thomas Gordon, mentioned in No. 10. 

In consequence of intercepted despatches from the British 
government to Governor Dunmore, of Virginia, Governor Mar- 
tin, of North Carolina, Governor Campbell, of South Carolina, 
Governor Wright, of Georgia, and Governor Tonyne, of St. 
Augustine, by which it ai:»peared to be the determination of 
the English government to coerce America, an intercepted 
letter of Governor Wright, of Georgia, requesting General 
Gage to send a detachment of His Majesty's forces from Bos- 
ton to overawe the people of Georgia, and the battles of Lex- 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 207 

ington, the Provincial Congress was in April summoned to 
meet Isfc of June, 1775. One hundred and seventy-two out 
of one hundred and eighty-four members met. An association 
drawn up by Henry Laurens was adojited, by which they 
i:>ledged themselves "whenever our Continental or Provincial 
Congress shall decree it necessary, we will go forth and be 
ready to sacrifice our lives and fortunes to secure her (that is 
the United Provinces of America,) freedom and safety." Two 
regiments of foot in five days after the meeting were resolved 
to be raised, and on the seventh day a regiment of rangers 
(mounted riflemen) were also directed to be raised. In this 
last regiment, commanded by Col. Thomas, (who obtained the 
soubriquet of Danger Thomas,) John Caldwell was appointed 
a captain, and raised a company. The Provincial Congress 
appointed all the officers of their little army escept the second 
lieutenant — these were given to the captains. The Provincial 
Congress appointed thirteen gentlemen, viz. : Cols. Henry 
Laurens, Charles Pinckney, the Hon. Judge Rawlins Lowndes, 
Thomas Furguson, Miles Brewton, Arthur Middleton, Thomas 
Heyward, Jun., Thomas Bee, John Huger, Esq., Col. James 
Parsons, the Hon. Judge William Henry Drayton, Benjamin 
Elliott, and "William "Williamson, Esq., as a council of safety. 
They were vested with the entire command of the army, with 
the power to contract debts, to stamp and issue money, to 
liquidate and pay all accounts, and to sign all commissions 
for the army. The following was the form of a commission : 

"South Carolina. — In pursuance of the resolution of the 
Provincial Congress, we do certify that AVilliam Moultrie 
Esq., is colonel of the regiment in the Provincial service. 
Dated 17th day of June, 1775," and signed by all the council 
severally. 

By the 17th July following. Col. Moultrie had recruited 
four hundred and seventy men for his regiment. This shows 
the spirit with which South Carolina went into the Revolution. 
I have no doubt the regiment of rangers was recruited with 
equal facility. Capt. Caldwell's company was soon filled. Plis 
own brother "William, (William Cunningham, afterwards the 
Tory partisan, known as bloody Bill Cunningham, but then a 
highly influential and promising young man,) and many otliers 
of the most respectable young men of Saluda, Little River 



208 ANNALS OV NEWBERRY. 

aiul Mudlick were Creek iiiombors. Thov were concerned in the 
capture of Fort Charlotte on the Savannah River, in Ninety- 
Six District, and were there stationed for some time as a 
check upon the Indians, from whom danger was appreliended. 
la the spring of '7G his company was ordered to Charleston. 
He arrived there, and was present at the reprise of the British 
Heet under Commodore Sir Peter Parker, by Col. Morltrie's 
Palmetto Fort on Sullivan's Island. This fort Gon. Charles 
Leo pronounced "a slaughter pen," and of which Captain, 
Lanpereir, a brave and experienced seaman, said, in reply 
to Col. Moultrie's confident assertion that "we should beat 
them." "Sir," said he, "when those ships (pointing to the 
men-of-war,) come to lay alongside of your fort they will 
knock it down in half an hoar." Moultrie's heroic Spartan 
reply ought to bo written in letters of gold, on the glorious 
flag of liberty, which still floats on Sullivan's Island, and from 
a fort which bears his name: "T/^cn we Avill lay behind the 
ruins and prevent their men from landing." The site of 
the old fort is now in the stream, and tradition is, that on 
the day when General Moultrie breathed his last, his old Pal- 
metto Fort fell in ruins. The regiment of rangers was on the 
Island as early as the 8th of June. The regiment o" rangers, 
and an eighteen-pounder, were stationed ou the east end of 
the Island to prevent General Clinton from passing over from 
Long Island, where he had previously landed with a large 
body of men. No attempt was, however, made, and therefore 
the rangers had no other participation in the glories of the 
2Sth June than that of holding in check Sir Heiry Clinton 
and his veterans. 

After the repulse of the 2Sth June, it is probable — iuJeel, I 
think it is certain — that Captain Caldwell's company of rangers 
returoed to the upper country, and were in Williamson's expe- 
dition against the Cherokees, commencing 18th of September, 
for a part of his command were regulars, and noni were so 
suitable as the hardy back-woodsman : accustomed to the use 
of the riile on horseback or on foot. This expedition accom- 
plis':ed its purpose, and was disbanded in October, 1770. 
"Whether Captain Caldwell was in any other service I do not 
certainly know. I presiimo he resigned his commission, and 
devoted himself to his own domestic affairs. In November, 



ANNALS or NEWBEERY. 209 

1778, under the constitution of that year, Robert Cunningham 
was elected Senator, Major John Caldwell, Jacob Bowman, 
Jonathan Downos and Henry O'Neall iiepresentatives from the 
Little River District. They all belonged to the moderate party, 
who were for conciliation, and were opposed to the French 
Alliance. The Senator, Robert Cunningham, and two of the 
Representatives, Jacob Bowman and Henry O'Neall were after- 
wards Tories. John Caldwell and Jonathan Downes remained' 
Whigs. 

After the fall of Charleston, in 1780, it is probable that 
Major Caldwell retired to North Carolina, but there seems to 
be no certainty about it. So, too, he may have returned with 
Greene to South Carolina, but his name does not appear in 
any of the accounts of this period. So distinguished a man 
as he was Avould hardly have been passed over in silence if 
he had been in active serv'ice. 

In his company, as I have already remarked, he enlisted, 
among others, William Cunningham. In Curwin's Memoirs it 
is stated that he was promised the commission of a first lieu- 
tenant. This could not have been, as that commission had 
been filled when the officers of the regiment were appointed. 
The. second lieutenants were to be appointed by the captains; 
and I have always understood, when the difficulty occurred 
which induced him to abandon the service. Captain Caldwell 
was about promoting him to the rank of lieutenant over his 
owa brother William. It is stated in Curwin's Memoirs that 
when recruited he had stipulated not to be carried to the 
lower country, and that when, in the spring of '70, they were- 
ordered Vjelow, he only agreed to go, oa being allowed to- 
resign as soon as he reached Charleston. That soon after- 
reaching Charleston they were ordered to .John's or James'' 
Island; that Cunningham tendered his resignation, and claimed: 
the fulfillment of the promises made to him ; that at last hft 
was prevailed on, to prevent a mutiny in the company, to 
cross ; that the moment he was landed the captain put him 
in irons ; that he was subsequently tried by a court-martial 
and acquitted, and then left the rangers. This may be correct 
for aught I certainly know, for I am aware the account comes, 
from too pure a source to be, in any shape, willfully incorrect. 
I am sure, however, of one thing — if Cunningham had thei^ 
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210 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

been a lieutenant his captain could not have put him in irons. 
The most which could have been done would have been that 
he would have been placed under arrest, and, in a very 
heinous case, put in charge of the adjutant or the regiment 
in the guard-house or under a guard. The account which I 
had received from one acquainted with Cimningham and Major 
Caldwell is given in "Random Recollections of the Revolu- 
tion," 4 Southern Literary Register, 40 — "some trivial offence 
prevented his (Cunningham's) promotion, and sent him before 
a court-martial, by which he was sentenced to be whipped, 
and he actually suffered this degrading punishment." For 
this cause he very justJij deserted. While the British held 
the rule of the upper country he visited his former commander 
at the head of his company of mounted loyalists, or a part 
of them, sufficient to compel submission, and, as is stated in 
the Southern Literary Register, 41, "he found" Major Cald- 
well "on a summer's day, sitting in his own house, without 
shoes or stockings. He amused himself by stamping on his toes 
and kicking his shins, and concluded his visit by telling him 
this was ample satisfaction for the whipping he had received 
while under his command." In November, 1781, Major Cald- 
well was killed in his own yard, or garden, in the manner 
which was described in the memoirs of his sister, Mrs. Gillam. 
As I have already stated, Major Caldwell Avas an eminent 
surveyor. He made many of the first surveys on Saluda, 
Little River, Bush River, and Mudlick and Mill Creeks. The 
country was then pretty much in the woods, and fare Avas 
generally pretty rough. Some idea may be formed of it by 
a supper made by Major Caldwell in one of his surveying 
trips, at the house of Barney Mounts, who was rather better 
provided with the means of living than some of his neigh- 
bors. The whole supper consisted of ^nusli and liog's lard. 
During the progress of the Major's attack on the mush, his 
host, with kind and hospitable intent, was constantly exclaim- 
ing to his wife, "Bring a leetel more of the hock's putter to 
make the Major's vaush go down slickery." The tradition is, 
that Major Caldwell was an active, energetic man, kind in all 
his purposes, and intelligent and useful. He was a Presby- 
terian, and having married in Mecklenburg, in addition to his 
own principles of liberty, it is likely he obtained with his 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 211 

wife, as her dowry, a full inoculation of that spirit of inde- 
pendence which gave birth to the celebrated Mecklenburg 
Declaration of Independence, and made Lord Cornwallis call 
the country around Charlotte, the "Hornet's Nest." 

The memoir of John Caldwell was written and published a 
few days before the death of my mother, which took place, 
as appears by the subjoined notice, 4th October, 1850. A 
long interval occurred before I resumed the Annals. 

Died — At her residence, in the town of Newberry, on Friday, 
the 4th day of October instant, at 10 minutes after 10 A. M., 
Anne O'Neall, widow and relict of the late Hugh O'Neall, 
and mother of Judge O'Neall, in the S4th (eighty-fourth) year 
of her age. 

She has left three children. Judge O'Neall, Abigail Cald- 
well, wife of John Caldwell, Esq., and Miss Sarah F. O'Neall. 
The latter lived with her mother, and the two had lived alone 
since 1834. The death of a mother is, under such circum- 
stances, most distressing to a child. Mrs. O'Neall was born 
at the place where her son lives, (Springfield.) She has ever 
since lived in the district, and since 1814, in the town of 
Newberry. She was the youngest child of Samuel Kelly and 
his wife, Hannah Belton. There was no kinder mother — no 
more benevolent, unpretending woman. She was, until her 
last sickness, able to walk about and attend to her domestic 
bu.siness. She was a member of the Society of Friends. 

Her children will always remember, with gratitude her early, 
pious and judicious training. Much of the commencement of 
their education depended upon her. Her last illness, pro- 
tracted during more than six weeks, was borne by her with 
great fortitude. She was scarcely ever heard to utter a com- 
plaint. The evening before her death, she said to her son 
that "her time was to be short, and she wished it to be so." 
On his inquiring if "she thought the change would be for the 
better," she said, "she hoped so." In this pious confidence 
she was ready, and did meekly and quietly resign her life 
into the hands of her mighty Master. She is gone to that 
home "where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the 
weary are at rest." She is there, united to her husband, chil- 
dren, grandchildren, her parents, brothers and sisters, who 
have gone before her. 



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NO. 18. 

''Far dearer the grave, or the prison, 

Illumined by one patriot name, 
Than the trophies of all, wbo had risen 

On Liberty's ruins to fame !" 

Sinco my peu wrote on the subject at the head of this 
article, years have sped, Revolutiou has threatened, blustered 
its day, and in its stead, peace has returned, and liberty is 
again, I hope, a welcome visifor in the 2^>'css room, where I 
presume you preside. To the author it has been a period of 
sorrow, labor, and trial. As No. 17 went to press, the author's 
mother, endeared to him by a mother's watchful care, and 
more than an usual mother's instructions, was, in the fulness 
of time, gathered to her rest. Although she was, as he well 
knew, ripe for the harvest, he could not lay her honored head 
in the silent house, unwept with the tear of affection; and ho 
cannot even now recur to it, without feeling that all things 
else might be got, but in the language of the poet, "minnie 
never anither." 

•'Hark ! she bids all her friends adieu ! 

Some angel calls her to the spheres; 
Our eyes the radiant saint pursue. 

Through liquid telescopes of tears. 
Farewell, bright soul ! a short farewell 

Till we shall meet again above. 
In the sweet groves where pleasures dwell, 

And trees of life bear fruits of love !" 

The varied avocations of a bustling life have so occupied 
every moment, that in vain has the author looked for an 
opportunity to renew the labor of love, in chronicling what- 
ever may be found to be to the interest, or glory of New- 
berry ! In the dark days of December, and, perhaps, while 
others enjoy the riot and misrule of Christmas, the author 
may beguile hours of idleness, by writing of the past. 

But to the matter of to-day! In No. (> an imperfect account 
was given to John Boyce. Having now the means of enlarg- 
ing it, from an authentic source, it is prefei-red to do so. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 213 

John Boyce was a native of Ireland, and belonged to that 
hardy, intelligent, active race of men ia the north of Ireland 
called the Scotch Irish. He emigrated to the United States, 
then the British Provinces, in North America, in 1765. He 
was a pedler, and carried his pack from house to house until 
1777, when ho married Elizabeth Miller, daughter of David 
Miller, of Rutherford, North Carolina. 

After this happy event, ho ceased to be an itinerant mer- 
chant, and settled in Newberry District, about fifteen miles 
north of the town of Newberry ; the section where he settled, 
resided and died, has been called Mollohon for many years. 

The llevolutionary war before his settlement in Newberry, 
had reached the shores of this State. In June, '70, had been 
fought the glorious battle of Fort Moultrie. Along the whole 
line of our southern sea-board had been seen little, beyond 
the movement of the South Carolina troops to and from Savan- 
nah, Georgia. On the 15th of January, '78, happened that 
dreadful fire in Charleston, which laid in ashes a large part 
of the city from Queen street to the lower end of East Bay 
street, (Grenvill's Bastion) 282 houses of the value of £507,832, 
($2,203,690,) were destroyed. This was supposed to be the 
work of the partisans of the British ; parties of whom, from 
their shipping, were every night in the town. In the spring 
of this year, the Schophelites, so called from their leader Col. 
Scophel, a colonel of militia justly described by Moultrie as 
"an illiterate, stupid, noisy blockliead," and, he might have 
added, rascal, organized and moved across the Savannah River 
below Augusta, with a view to an union with the British 
troops in St. Augustine, who would, it was predicted, invade 
South Carolina. This called out all the military forces of 
the State. Alexander Boyce, a brother of John, obtained 
a commission as a Captain ; in his company the subject of 
this article made his first essay in arms. At the siege of 
Savannah, Capt. Alexander Boyce on the unfortunate 9th of 
October, 1779, in the gallant attempt to carry the British 
line, fell at the head of his company. 

John was the elder brother. He, after his brother's death, 
attached himself to the company of militia commanded by 
Captain (afterwards Colonel,) Thos. Dugan. General Levi 
Casey was the lieutenant, and most usually commanded that 



214 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

part of the company detailed for service out of the immedi- 
ate neighborhood. Captain Dugan most usually commanded 
the scouts. 

Mr. Boyce was in the battle of Blackstocks, King's Moun- 
tain, Cowpens and Eutaw. On his return to his family, after 
the battle of King's Mountain or Cowpens, (our informant is 
not certain which,) he had scarcely blessed the "gude wife 
and the bairns," and seated himself to taste their homely fare 
— a cup of milk and a piece of bread — until he was startled 
by the sound of approaching horses. He sprang to his cabin 
door, and saw a party of Tories, headed by the celebrated 
partisan, Wm. Cunningham, and a man of less note, but 
equally dreaded, McCombs, immediately before him. Four of 
the horses were already abreast of his door. His only safety 
was in flight. Death he knew was the result of captivity. 
Making a virtue of necessity, he threw his hat in the face of 
the horses before the door. This made them open right and 
left. He sprung through the opening, and ran to the woods, 
which were before him in about seventy-five yards. Before, 
however, he could reach the friendly cover, Cunningham was 
along side, and striking a furious blow, it took effect on his 
raised hand, as he avoided the charge, and cut off nearly three 
of his fingers. Before, however, the blow could be repeated, 
he was in the thick brush of a wood impenetrable to cavalry. 
From his cover he watched the retreat of his foes ; then hur- 
rying to his house his wounded hand was soon bound up, 
and he was in the saddle, on his way to his commander, 
Casey, and before night, with a party of fifteen, Casey was 
in pursuit, and on the Enoree River, near the mouth of 
Duncan's Creek, captured eleven or twelve of the party who 
had attempted the life of Mr. Boyce. Among them was Mc- 
Combs. These were conveyed to the place where the Charles- 
ton road crosses the old Ninety-Six road, (now Whitmire's,) 
and there a "short shift," a strong rope and a stooping hickory 
applied speedy justice to them all. A common grave, at the 
root of the tree, is their resting place for all time. 

On another occasion Mr. Boyce was captured, and tied in 
his own barn, while a bed-cord was sought for to hang him ; 
his negro man (long afterwards known as Old Sandy,) being 
hid in the straw, and knowing the necessity of speedy relief, 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 215 

while his captors were absent on their fell jiurpose, arose to 
his rescue, aud iiutying him, both made good their escape. 

These are a few of the hair-breadth escapes which tried the 
men of that dark and bloody period, when home, sweet home, 
could not be enjoyed for a moment without danger, and when 
wife and children had to be left to the tender mercies of the 
bloody, plundering Tories. 

John Boyce lived long after the war, and enjoyed the rich 
blessings of the glorious liberty for which he had periled so 
much. He lost his wife in '97, and died in April, 1806. He 
had seven children : Robert, John, David, Alexander, Ker, 
James, Andrew and Mary. All are no more, except Ker Boyce, 
the millionaire of Charleston.* 

Mr. Boyce was a well informed, but not a well educated 
man. He had read much. He exercised a just and whole- 
some influence in the section where he lived. 

He was a Presbyterian, and an elder in McClintock's 
Church, Gilder's Creek. In the grave yard, there, rest his 
remains. He was a merchant and distiller. He made and 
sold whiskey, and, strange to say, not one of his many sons 
ever drank to excess. This, no doubt, was to be attributed 
to the "let us worship God," heard night and morning at his 
family board. 

♦Since died. 



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NO. 19. 

"Fling our sun-burst to the wind, 
Studded o'er with names of glory, 
Worth, and wit, and might, and mind. 
Poet young and patriot hoary, 
Long shall make it shine in story." 

In undertaking to do justice to the name of a venerable 
soldier, the difficulty of the task is greatly enhanced by the 
poverty of the material in our possession. Could it have been 
so that the author could have sat by his side, and heard the 
narrative of the deeds of daring, the hair-breadth escapes, 
and the trial and suffering of the dark and bloody period, 
then, indeed, he could have sketched, as with a pen of fire, 
and with life-like correctness held the portrait of the soldier 
of other da3's to his fellow-men, and said this is Golding 
Tinsley. who fought through the whole perid of the Revolu- 
tion, and tired not. But this opportunity was not offered; 
and, from the short narrative which affection has preserved is 
to be gathered the scattered materials, out of which the web 
of his glorious story is to be woven. 

Golding Tinsley was born in Virginia, Culpeper County, 
about the year 1754 ; he emigrated to South Carolina about 
the year 1771, and settled in Newberry District. At the com- 
mencement of the war of the Revolution, he, with his three 
brothers, enlisted, as is believed, July, 1775, in Capt. John 
Caldwell's company of rangers. If this be so, he was present 
with the regiment of rangers, on the east end of Sullivan's 
Island, where they were stationed on the day of the battle of 
Fort Moultrie, to hold Sir Henry Clinton in check, and to 
prevent his crossing from Long Island. This meritorious ser- 
vice received the thanks of Congress by resolution of the 20th 
July, '76. The subsequent service of the rangers are so 
obscure, that they cannot be spoken of with certainty. In 
September, 1776, they were placed on the Continental estab- 
lishment. Previous to this they had been employed in "Wil- 
liamson's expedition against the Cherokees. They, j>erhaps, 



ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 217 

with the other South Carohna regulars, were employed in 
Georgia ; a part of the regulars were placed as marines, in 
.the little navy of the State, under the command of Captain 
Biddle, for a cruise to protect the commerce of the State. 
The expedition consumed about ten weeks. They fell in with 
the Yarmouth, a British sixty-four gun-ship, and in the en- 
gagement, the Randolph, Capt. Biddle's ship, blew up, and 
every soul perished ; among them was a fine Carolina com- 
pany of fifty men. To reduce the Schophelites, one hundred 
and fifty of the rangers were sent from Charleston, in April, 
'78, to Georgia ; these, probably, were the upper countrymen, 
who were better calculated to meet such irregulars than any 
other troops. I presume the rangers were in the unfortunate 
expedition to East Florida, as I observed that Major Wise, 
one of the ofiicers of the rangers, was in the council of war 
at Fort Tonyn, on the 11th July, 1778. At what time Golding 
Tinsley, and his brothers, terminated their services, in the 
regiment, of rangers, cannot he ascertained. 

Two of his brothers were killed by the Tories, on Fair 
Forest, near McBeth's Mills, Union District. He and James, 
his other surviving brother, rode out the storm of the Revo- 
lution. It seems that Golding and James were at the battle 
of Stono, on the 20th of June, '79, and in the fatal siege of 
Savannah, and the attempted escalade of th« 9th of October. 
They, fortunately, escaped the calamitous surrender of Charles- 
ton, in May, 1780. After that event the Whigs scattered; 
some rendezvoused at Tuccasege Ford, on Catawba, under 
Col. Sumter. The probability is that the Tinsley's went with 
Col. James Williams to North Carolina, and returned with 
him, for on the 18th of August, they partook with him in the 
dangers and glory of the defeat of the British, under Col. 
Innis, at Musgrove's Mill. 

In this affair Williams* "had about one hundred and fifty ; 
Innis three hundred men." Musgrove's Mill, called in Mill's 
Atlas Gordon Mill, is in the northeast corner of Laurens Dis- 
trict, on the Enoree River. The British forces occupied that 
position, south of the river, and in full command of a rocky, 

*In Ramsay's History of Tenneesee Col. Shelby is said to have com- 
mand in this battle. The statement will accompany the memoir of Col- 
James Williams. 



218 ANNALS or NEWBEEEY. 

bad ford. Williams' command was on the north side of the 
river. His main body he drew up on a hill near a creek 
which runs into Enoree, just below the Spartanburg line. 
This portion was a half mile from Musgrove's Mill. It was 
both protected and concealed by a wood. His little army was 
drawn up in a semi-circle, and constituted a pretty ambuscade. 
His arrangement was perfectly simple, and in partisan style. 
With a few picked men he was to approach the river, show 
himself to the enemy, fire upon them, induce them to cross 
and pursue, while he held them in check; firing as he fell 
back to the centre of his ambuscade, and thus bring them 
entirely within his power. The scheme was fully and beauti- 
fully executed. Col. Innis eagerly pursued Williams' flying 
sharp-shooters, and as he advanced, the extremities of Wil- 
liams' semi-circle closed behind him. He was thus surrounded, 
wounded, and most of his militia commanded were taken 
prisoners. Innis, with his regular troops, escaped. Col. Clary, 
who commanded a detatchment of loyalist militia in the action, 
often related his own escape. His horse, he said, was seized 
at the same moment by the opposite checks of his bridle-bit 
by two of Williams' soldiers. He took advantage of the con- 
fusion of the melee with great presence of mind. He said to 
his captors, "Damn you, don't you know your own ofiicers ?" 
He was instantly released, and fled at full speed. 

Johnson's Traditions of the Revolution, p. 519, informs us 
that Col. Shelby, of North Carolina, and Col. Clarke, of 
Georgia, united with Col. Williams in the affair of Musgrove's 
Mill, and, as afterwards at King's Mountain, each commanded 
his own men. The account there given is from Col. Samuel 
Hammond's notes, who was then a captain, and present at 
the action. It is a little more extended than that which is 
here given. It is, however, substantially the same. 

After this gallant achievement, a part of W^illiams' com- 
mand, and other Whigs, took post at the Cedar Spring, in 
Spartanburg District, called in Mills' Statistics "the Green 
Spring, near Berwick's iron works," now Leitner's cotton 
factory. There were either two partisan affairs at this place, 
or there is an irreconcilable difference between Major Mc- 
Junkin's statement, 2d Mag. 35, and that given in Mills' Sta- 
tistics, 738, 739. In the former Mrs. Mary Thomas, the wife 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY, 219 

of Col. John Thomas, is represented as riding from Ninety- 
Six in the day, and giving the alarm. la the latter, Mrs. 
Dillard is represented as reaching the camp before day, and 
and announcing the enemy's approach. 

Col. Clarke, of Georgia, commanded the Americans, and is 
represented as advancing to that point, with a view of strik- 
ing at a recruiting party of Ferguson's. This oflScer (Fergu- 
son,) was on his way from Cornwallis' army, after Gates' 
defeat at Gum Swamp, near Camden, with a view of collecting 
the loyalists in the upper part of South Carolina, overawing 
the "Whigs, and holding the mountaineers in check. Ferguson 
determined to surprise Clarke in his camp; he detached Dun- 
lap with 200 picked mounted men to commence the battle. 
Fortiuiately their intention was disclosed in the conversation 
which they were carrying on, while Mrs. Dillard (the lady as 
I presume of the veteran Maj. Dillard, of Laurens,) prepared 
supper for them. As soon as the British were engaged in 
their supper, this gallant woman slipped out of the house, 
bridled a young horse and mounting, pushed him at full 
speed to the American camp, and was carried by one of the 
videttes to the Colonel, to whom she said "be in readiness to 
either fight or run ; the enemy will be vipon you immediately, 
and they are strong.'' The call to arms was instantly an- 
swered by the hardy woodsmen; they were ready, aye, ready; 
and when Dunlap's bugles sounded the charge, he was met 
by the unfaltering huzza of the Americans, as hand to hand 
they met and overwhelmed him. In fifteen or twenty minutes 
Dunlap was routed and flying ; and when Ferguson reached 
the ground, he found his advance had been beaten, the prison- 
ers taken had been removed, and Col. Clarke and his party, 
except two wounded men left on the ground, were beyond his 
power. In this glorious affair Golding and James Tinsley, 
bore a part. This occurred, probably, in September, 1780. 

The two brothers were among those who joined Col. Wil- 
liams before the battle of King's Mountain. The old song 
says : 

"Old Williams from Hillsborough came 

To him the South Carolinians flocked amain." 

On the 7th of October they formed part of Col. Williams' 
advancing column, who poured the contents of their deadly 



220 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

rifles lapon Ferguson's encircled hosts. They saw their gallant 
leader fall in the arms of victory ; at the same instant the 
British commander, Ferguson, yielded up his proud spirit; and 
soon after the British lion at the feet of Campbell, the brave 
Virginian, who led to victory, and glory, the men of the 
mountains. 

Soon after this great victory, the two Tinsley's attached 
themselves to Sumter, and were with him in the gallant and 
successful stand which he made on the 20th of November, 
1780, at Blackstocks. Tn this well fought action, Sumter was 
wounded, and was borne by his faithful followers to some 
place of safety in North Carolina. 

The Tinsleys were next found in Morgan's army. On the 
17th of January, 1781, they formed part of his command, by 
whom the impetuous Tarleton was again repulsed. They 
remained in Morgan's army, and with it, when united with 
Greene, made the celebrated retreat to Virginia. Thence turn- 
ing back with Greene they participated in Guilford's well 
fought field; on the 15th of March, 1781, and after the pur- 
suit of Lord Cornwallis to Ramsay's Mill on Deep River, 
they accompanied the main army to South Carolina. Whether 
they were in the battle at Hobkirk's Hill, near Camden, is 
unknown ; but it is most probable from their love of action, 
that they were. 

The siege of Ninety-Six was another of the trials of the 
Revolution, in which the brothers took part. Gen. Greene on 
the 25th of May environed that post, which was defended 
with uncommon spirit by Col. Cruger. But he was reduced 
to the last extremities and must have soon surrendered, had 
not intelligence reached him that Lord Rawdon with two 
thousand men was near at hand. This intelligence, tradition 
informs us, was conveyed to Cruger by a lady. Rawdon 
wrote a letter and put it in the hands of a young lady, 
whose sweet-heart, a British officer, was in the garrison. She 
rode into the American lines talking to the officers and men 
until she reached a point opposite to the gate of the fort, 
when she wheeled her horse, and putting him to full sj^eed, 
held the letter in full view of the garrison ; the gate was 
thrown open, and she was soon in the arms of her admirer, 
and the letter in the possessiom of Cruger. Two alternatives 



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221 



were left to Greene to raise the siege, or to attempt the 
reduction of the fort, by assault. The latter on the 18th of 
June, 1781, was attempted, and failed. The retreat of Greene 
beyond Saluda followed. 

The Tinsleys after this, for some cause, proceeded to Vir- 
ginia ; they were present at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, 
at Yorktown, on the 19th of October, 1781. What part they 
bore in the siege is unknown ; it is not, however, to be be- 
lieved, that soldiers trained and inured to war, as they were, 
would stand idle, when arms and gloiy were before them. 

They returned to South Carolina and were a part of Col. 
Hays command, whea he surrendered to Capt. Wm. Cunning- 
ham, at Edgehill's, midway between Belfast and Milton, ia 
November, 1781. This bloody catastrophe is susceptible of so 
many versions, and has been so often stated, that the author 
here mostly cites from Random Recollections of the Revolu 
tion, the following as the best within his reach : "Hays was 
a bold, inexperienced, incautious man." (This description, the 
author's subsequent means of information induces him to 
qualify ; Hays had seen some seiwice : he certainly was with 
Col. Williams at King's Mountain, and probably in most of 
his former services, as he is just before the action mentioned 
by Col. Williams, as part of his military family.) "His station 
was at Col. Edgehill's, in Laurens District, east of Little River 
and Simmon's Creek, on or near the old Charleston road from 
Rabun's Creek to Orangeburg. The dwelling house built of 
logs was his fort. He was told by William Caldwell to put 
himself in a position of defence ; pointing to the smoke seen 
southeast, he said, "That is my brother's house, and I know 
Cunningham is in the neighborhood." Hays was at work in 
a blacksmith shop, making a cleat to hold a lady's netting, 
and hooted at Caldwell's suggestion, saying that "Cunningham 
had too much sense to come there." Caldwell said, "I will 
not stay here to be butchered," and mounted and fled at full 
speed. As he went out at one end of the old field he said 
he saw Cvinningham come in at the other. 

The surprise was complete and overwhelming. Hays, and 
his men almost without resistance were driven into the house, 
and Cunningham's pursuit was so close, that John Tinsley 
struck a full blow with his sword at Hays, as he entered the 



222 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

door. A few gnns were fired from withia and without. Two 
men were killed, supposed to have been slain by their own 
respective fires. Locklev Leonard was killed in the house, 
and one of Cunningham's men in the yard. A. ramrod tipped 
Avith flax, saturated with tar was set on fire and shot out of 
a musket into the roof of the house. It was, in a moment, 
in a blaze. Hays and his party on a promise of good quar- 
ters (as it has always been said,) surrendered. Cunningham 
selected Hays and Maj. Daniel Williams, (a son of Col. Wil- 
liams, who fell at King's Mountain,) as his victims. He was 
about hanging them on the pole of a fodder-stack, when he 
was accosted by a young son of Col. Williams, Joseph Wil- 
liams, a lad of sixteen or seventeen years, who had from 
infancy known Cunningham. "Capt. Cunningham, how shall I 
go home and tell my mother that you have hanged brother 
Daniel?'' "Cunningham instantly swore that he should not 
have that melancholy duty to perform. He hung him up with 
his brother and Hayes. The pole broke and with his sword 
he literally hewed them in pieces." Then the work of death 
went on, each member of the company had the right to kill 
or spare, as he pleased. Golding and James Tinsley, Maj. 
W^m. Dunlap, of Huntersville, Laurens, and John Cummins, 
commonly called King Cummins, were those who were spared 
in the savage slaughter. James and Golding Tinsley, the 
author supposed, were saved by their kinsman, John Tinsley, 
but in 1832, at Spartanburg, James Tinsley assured him this 
was not the case, and gave the name of another person who 
performed that meritorious deed. Who it was, has escaped 
the author's recollection. 

This was the last of the bloody trials of the Revolution, 
"which tried the courage and fortitude of Golding Tinsley. 
The British power was confined to the seaboard until the 
14th of December, 1782, ' when they evacuated Charleston, and 
South Carolina was no more trodden by a hostile foot, from 
the seaboard to the mountains. 

Golding Tinsley lived many years after the war in New- 
berry District. He thence removed to Spartanburg District, 
where he lived in honor and iisefulness the balance of his 
days. He was for the last thirty years of his long and event- 
ful life a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and 



AXNALS OF NEWBEEBY. 223 

this period was adorned by every Christian grace which showed 
itself in his conversation, in his precepts, and ia his examples 
He died near Cross Anchor, Spartanburg District, on the 
11th of May, 1851, having attained to the great age of 96 or 
97 years. He left two children, Isaac and Amelia, him sur- 
viving. The estimation in which he was held was evidenced 
by the immense concourse who followed his body to the 
grave. He was buried with the honors of war; not less than 
two thousand persons were present. In closing this account 
of that gallant soldier, well may we say, "Blessed are they 
who die in the Lord, and their works do follow them." 



224 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



NO. 20. 

"Day by day do thy great oues go down to the grave. 
But thy genius expires not, but soars like the moon, 

When it rises pavilioned in light, from the wave, 
As glorious as though that moment 'twere born." 

Maximilian Haynie, of ■svhoni we are to speak, today, came 
from Prince William County, Virginia, to Newberry, in '72 or 
'73. He was twice married. His first wife was a Miss Falk- 
ner, by whom he bad two cliildren, both daughters. The 
eldest married a Mr. Courtenay, remained in Virginia, and 
died without issue. The second married Burr Harris, and 
removed to this district, and after remaining hero several 
years removed to Pendleton. Mr. Haynie's second wife was 
Elizabeth Bnchanau. By her he had ten cliildren. Eight of 
these were born after she was bed-ridden with rheumatism. 
Three of his children died when he was about setting out for 
South Carolina. This sad domestic event delayed his trip for 
a season. 

By his brother-in-law, John Buchanan, he sent out two 
slaves (Edinborougli and Beck,) to make a crop. In the fall 
of that year he and his family came to South Carolina. He 
settled on Second Creek. The mother of his first wife lived 
with him as long as she lived. She Avas a religious, and per- 
haps a superstitious old lady. At one period of her life she 
narrowly escaped shipwreck, and in the midst of her peril she 
prayed for deliverance, and vowed, if she was spared, that she 
would dedicate that day (Friday of every week,) to fasting 
and prayer. This she religiously observed. To be sure of a 
faithful remembrance, she stated to her son-in-law's second 
wife, when she came home, the obligation she had assumed, 
and requested her, if at any time she should be unmindful, 
that she w^ould be pleased to remind her of it. On one 
occasion, only, was it necessary to remind her that it was 
Friday. She immediately retired to her room, knelt down, 
and returned thanks to God that she had been saved from 
violatinc; her vow. AVhat beautiful, truthful and child-like 



ANNALS OK NEWBERRY. 225 

piety was here exhibited ! What an excellent example is hero 
set before our people, young and old I Few, very few, now 
follow it. Many vow, but few perform. This good woman 
hardly accompanied Mr. Haynie to South Carolina, for at his 
exodus from Virginia ho must have been fifty-three years of 
age. 

Ho was a carpenter by trade, and made many articles of 
domestic furniture, such as tables, bedsteads cupboards, &cc., 
and exchanged them with the settlers around him for hogs, 
cattle, chickens and butter. 

In the lievolution his age, and his atliictcd wife, saved him 
from the peril and butchery which attended the partisan war- 
faro of that dark period ; but it did not save him or his 
family from plunder. 

It seems a scamp, named Jim Buchanan, a distant relative, 
made himself acquainted with Mr. Haynie's affairs by con- 
tinually lounging about his house, and reporting to the Tories 
whatever plunder he had, and v.hich to them was desirable. 
On one occasion Mr. Haynie had sold a hogshead of tobacco 
in Charleston, and received nine guineas, which he brought 
home. This sum, equal to S4().o0, he thought the Tories 
might find, and take away. To prevent discovery, and yet 
tell the truth, according to the letter, when questioned, he 
buried his gold, flattering himself he was safe, as he could 
now say "he had not a farthing upon the face of the earth.'^ 
But the spy knew, and .so did the Tories. They told him he 
had brought home nine guineas, and that he had buried it. 
"Tell,"' said they, "where it is, or we will torture you until it 
is produced." He knew that the same party, to force a dis- 
closure, had sawed old Jacob Felkers leg to the bone. Fear- 
ing a similar fate, he told them where his treasure was. 
They soon disinterred and pocketed the shiners. 

Some of Mr. Haynie's daughters were grown, and with com- 
mendable skill and industry, laid their "hands to the spindle, 
and their hands held the distaff"; they made homespun for 
dresses for themselves which were the envy of all their neigh- 
bors. Two of the young ladies, Peggy and Nancy, had in 
the loom a web sufficient for their dresses. Loafing Jim was 
there occasionally admiring and praising it. He ascertained 
when the web was expected to be wove ; his friends, the 
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226 ANNALS OF NEWBEKUY. 

Tories, attended accordingly, but found only one dress com- 
pleted. This tliey cut out, and made off with it and all the 
made dresses on •which they could lay their hands. In vain 
did the bed-ridden mother plead that they would spare to her 
children the covering which their hands had j)rovided ; but 
she asked for mercy from those who never knew the word. 
The other dress was afterwards woven, and was of such fine 
texture, as my informant says, that ''it was drawn through a 
finger ring." It is, or rather was in '52, in existence, in the 
possession of one of Mr. Haynie's old servants, cook Lucy, 
v^ho lived with Dr. Wm. Hatton. 

Mr. Haynie, in the latter part of his life, became a cele- 
brated mathematician. His first attention to it probably arose 
from the necessity of educating his children at home. The 
mother, confined as she was to bed, instructed in reading, and 
even gave explanations in arithmetic to her son, John, but 
she could not use her hands to make figures, and hence her 
husband, at night, had that duty to perform. He and his son 
studied together, by fire-light, until the latter gave himself up 
to sleep ; the former pursued his studies until his light gave 
out. He w'as more than sixty when he began his course of 
self-instruction. He mastered arithmetic and then turned his 
attention to astronomy. He produced some scientific work, 
which he patiently studied until he was able to work out 
the eclipses of the sun and moon, which he did to the 
20th century. His grandson (Wm. H. Ruff, Esq.,) informed 
me that this work was carried by his son-in-law, Thomas 
Piutherford, to Georgia. Mr. Ruff remarks : "Several quires 
of paper, full of his astronomical calculations, were at my 
mother's when I was married, but they cannot now be found." 
This is deeply to be regretted, both on account of the in- 
formation they might convey, and also for the proof which 
they would furnish of how much patient, toiling industry 
could accomplish. His studies were prosecuted without the 
aid of lamp, or candle and wick; the rich dry-heart pine, 
commonly called lightwood, gave the light to his eyes which 
enlightened his mind. One of bis slaves, with that devotion 
which was not uncommon, before cotton became too much the 
God of this world, furnished the lightwood. At night, Beck 
would be seen approaching the door and talking to herself. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 227 

"I wonder," said she, '"if my master has had any lightwood 
to-night ; depend upon it I must get him some, for I know 
right well he will want some, and I cannot sleep satisfied if 
I know my master wants any thing I can get for him." Her 
axe, a willing mind, and masculine power, soon cut and 
brought in the requisite supply. Little anecdotes like this 
are worth untold gold ; they are the oasis, as our abolition 
neighbors would tell us, in the desert of slavery. But, in 
fact, they are the unchangeable evidences of the tie which 
binds together the master and the slave, the serf and the lord, 
the peasant and his landlord, the world all over. Society is 
like the wood with which God covers the earth ; there are, 
and always will be, the great and the small, the h'gh and 
the low, the fruit-bearing and the unproductive, the beautiful 
and the gnarled and rugged, the tree and the bush, the vine 
and the bramble — all know their })laces and their uses. So it 
is with men ; the wise, the learned, the foolish, the ignorant, 
the industrious, the lazy, the rich, the poor, the free and the 
bona, all have their places ; and it is useless for presumptu- 
ous men or women, to do more than to improve society ; they 
cannot break up and recast it entirely. 

Mr. Haynie's only son, John, was a young lad of fine mind; 
he trained him to be a mathematician and an astronomer, and 
though he was to be a crown of rejoicing to his old age. 
But in vain. Intoxicating drink, in a few years, pulled down 
and destroyed all which his father, and his father's God had 
done. He died a drunkard ! What sad misfortunes are 
always produced by this accursed habit. But here, in this 
instance, let us stop, and meditate for an instant or two. Mr. 
Haynie had been sorely tried. His wife for many, very many 
years, had been confined to bed by rheumatism ; for much of 
that time she was fed by hor daughtei', Mrs. Ruff, as an 
infant ; in this sad condition, he had studied and made him- 
self, like Dr. Franklin, in his old age, a celebrated man ; he 
had led his .son up the steep and slippery heights of science, 
and placed him on the summit ; then came the serpent, in- 
toxicating drink, encircling him with fold after fold, until at 
last he was crushed. Awful picture ; yet, young friends of 
Newberry, John Haynie has many a parallel among you. 
Will you not pause; reflect; be warned, and abandon the fatal 



228 _ ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

temper. Read what my informant says, ''in 1811 or 1812," 
when his grandfather was ninety-two or ninety-three, John 
said he, "was drinking and cross," and therefore his aged sire 
abandoned his own home; and on foot, accompanied by one 
of his faithful servants, Edinborough, sought the friendly 
shelter of his kind son-in-law, John Ruff. Think of ♦hat rash 
young man. Father, teacher, friend, alike disregarded, and 
like old King Lear, turned out to feel that the ingratitude of 
a child is worse and harder to bo borne than the howling, 
wintry tempest. 

Maximilian Haynie died at the great age of ninety-three in 
the year 1812. His son survived him for a short time. His 
daughters, Mrs. Rutherford, Mrs. James Sheppard, Mrs. John 
Ruff, and Mrs. Robert*son, have all followed him to the tomb; 
they all left families, of whom few remain among us ; such 
as do, are not only respectable, but also highly useful men 
and women. 

Mr. Haynio took no medicine, and like most of the old 
people of the Revolutionary war was scarcely ever sick. Out 
of his five slaves, whom ho brought from Virginia, three at- 
tained to his great age. One still survives, at the age of 
eighty-seven and bids fair, says my informant, to reach ninety- 
three or one hundred.* Is Newberry a sickly district, when 
live out of six in one family, have gone beyond four score':' 
Moderate exercise, little or no medicine, a cheerful happy 
temper, occupation of mind and body, a little attention to 
cleanliness about residences, to clearing in, not deadening 
timber, in planting, not to plant cotton about the dwellings, 
not to obstruct the running streams by felling timber in them, 
or suffering drift to remain therein, in drinking pure water, 
and in avoiding intoxicating drink, will produe health, strength, 
wisdom and length of days, in Newberry as well as under 
the mountains. 

Imperfectly has the life of Maximilian Haynie been sketched; 
the materials were originally obtained to gratify the wish of 
a friend, who in the wilds of Matagorda, Texas, and in the 
evening of his life, wished to give an account of his native 
district, Fairfield, and who therewith desired to give some 
account of the ''Astronomer Haynie," of Broad River. To 
him a copy has been long since sent. But the good old man 
belonged to Newberry, and to the benefit of his life, example 
and trials she was entitled. 

*She died in 1858, ninety-three years old, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 229 



NO. 21. 

"You're men ! as such should know your right, and knowing should de- 
fend, 
Who would be free, themselves must dare the tyrant's chain to rend ; 
O fruitless is the grief, that springs above a nation's fears — 
One firm resolve of mighty man is ■« orth a tide of tears." 

Again we are about to turn back to the Revolutionary field, 
and again are about to endeavor to add another name to the 
worthies, who beloiig to Newberry. 

We, to-day, propose to call up the name of William Cald- 
well from the sleep of thirty-nine years ; and, as far as pos- 
sible to give his life to the people. 

He was born, in March, 1748, in the State of Pennsylvania, 
in the next year the family removed to Virginia, where they 
remained till they emigrated to South Carolina, about the year 
1770; this is siipposed to be correct, as it is compiled from 
an account furnished by Gen. James Gillam, the son of Eliza- 
beth Gillam, whose memoir has been heretofore published. 

After his removal to this State, he spent two years at his 
brother-in-law's, Patrick Calhoun, in Abbeville and then re- 
turned to Newberry, and with his brother learned surveying 
theoretically and practically. 

He joined in June, or July, 1775, his brother's company of 
rangers ; what was their period of service does not appear. 
This regiment commanded by Col. Thompson was speedily 
completed. Moultrie says a troop of rangers was sent to Fort 
Charlotte, to dispossess the royal government, to take charge 
of the guns, powder, and military stores, and to send down to 
Charleston the two brass field-pieces, that were there, and to 
endeavor to enlist the garrison. The troop of rangers sent on 
this duty was Capt. Caldwell's. 

How long, they there remained is unknown. The regiment 
rendezvoused, at Charleston, before the attack of the 28th 
June, on Sullivan's Island. They were posted, during the 
battle, on the east end of Sullivan's Island to hold Sir Henry 
Clinton in check, and to prevent him crossing over from Long's 



230 ANNALS OF NEAVBEKKY. 

Island. William Caldwell was present on that occasion. 
Whether he was then an office, is not certain ; it seems to be 
certain, that the 2nd lieutenants were appointed by the cap- 
tains. That Captain Caldwell intended William Cunningham 
for that office rests on very satisfactory tradition. After his 
desertion, it is believed, that the office was conferred on Wil- 
liam CaldAvell. 

What were his services, afterwards, in this department of 
duty, are as uncertain as has been already stated, in the 
memoir of Golding Tinsley. It has been a traditionary state- 
ment, that he was part of the garrison of Fort Barrington on 
the Altamaha, left in '78 in the unfortunate expedition to 
East Florida, to protect the State of Geosgia. That that post 
was subsequently reduced, and that he, Roger McKinnie and 
Captain Milton were delivered as hostages for the observance 
of the parole allowed to the officers, and, that for an alleged 
breach of it, he and his companions were immured in the 
castle of St. Augustine for more than a year. 

From information, now in my possession from one connected 
with the family, it may be that there is some inaccuracy in 
the tradition. For it is there stated that he was a part of 
the South Carolina Militia, in the unfortunate affair of Brier 
Creek, Georgia. I see, on looking into the proceedings of the 
court of inquiry, held to ascertain, whether Gen. Ashe, the 
commandant of the American troops, was to blame for that 
disastrous surprise, that Col. James Williams of South Caro- 
lina, was a part of his command, and if so, it may be that 
W^illiam Caldwell was there and. taken prisoner on the 4th of 
March, 1779. But 1 confess I doubt the correctness of this. 
For if there taken prisoner, I cannot perceive, why he should 
have been sent to St. Augustine, when the British garrison of 
Savannah was at hand. There is no doubt, he was confined 
in the castle of St. Augustine ; and after a long imprison- 
ment, reached home. My understanding always has been, 
that he, McKinnie, and Milton were discharged. Indeed, I 
have often heard related the anecdote, that McKinnie, on the 
day of his discharge, packed their crockery in a pot, and 
threw it down the stairs to alarm the sentinel on duty. It is 
stated in the memoir before me, that a lad of the name of 
Tinsley, who had accompanied him from home, but who Avas 



ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 231 

not confined, bribed the gaoler, and that the door was left 
ajar, and thus they made their escape, and traveled on foot 
home. 

He and his companions were confined, in a room, or rooms, 
where they could only see the sun through a narrow aperture 
for a short time each day. Often have I heard one. who 
knew him well, say, that after his discharge and return home, 
he was as fair as the fairest lady he ever saAV. Yet, in the 
narrative before me, he is represented as returning home in 
such a squalid condition, that neither his mother, sister, nor 
the young lady to whom he was engaged, and whom he sub- 
sequently married, knew him. If he was taken prisoner, at 
Briar Creek, he could not have I'eached home much sooner 
than the fall of Charleston, in May, 1780. 

Be tliis as it may, it is very certain that he was not in 
any of the actions, which followed, until the battle of Cow- 
pens, in January, 1781. Before that time lie had been en- 
gaged in scouting, bearing expresses, and other duties. When 
Tarleton's command lay at Chandler's and Brooks', l^efore he 
changed his route for Pacolet, and the pursuit, as he called 
it, of Morgan, Wm. Caldwell, Robert Gillam, and John Sat- 
terwhite were constantly in the neighborhood, observing the 
motions of the enemy. Shortly before his death, he pointed 
out the rock, on the right of the road to Belfast, and where 
the road to Mount Zion turns oif, as that on which they fed 
their horses with shelled corn carried in their saddle-bags. 
When Tarleton turned the head of his column by the Tea-Table 
rock in Newberry District, in the direction of Morgan's camp, 
they jjushed for the same point to report his movements. 
There they united themselves to the militia company to whicli 
they belonged, commanded by Capt. James Caldwell. The 
battle of Cowpens, on the 17th of January was fought, and 
won. In it William Caldwell bore a soldier's part. He re- 
turned with most of the militia, but probably after his brother 
James' wounds had been so healed, as to permit him to be 
moved, to their respective homes. He, however, was rarely 
allowed to stay any time at home. He was too well known 
to the loyalists to be not often sought. The time, to the close 
of the war, was mostly spent in the saddle, in the scouting 
parties of that time. How narrowly he escaped death at Hays' 



232 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Station has been narrated in the memoir of Golding Tinsley. 

On another occasion, he narrowly escaped the vengeful 
sword of Cunningham. At Perkin's Ford, on Saluda, Cunning- 
ham and his party commenced his pursuit ; by the time he 
reached the residence of William O'Neall, near O'Neall's, now 
Bobo's Mill, on Bush River, the bleeding flanks and panting 
sides of his mare told too truly that the fate of Cunningham's 
captives, a cruel death was at his heels. A fresh horse from 
the stable of the Quaker carried him beyond danger. 

As the eldest brother, he inherited the fine real estate of 
his brother John, who was slain in Cunningham's bloody foray 
of November, 1781, and who died without issue. After the 
war he married Miss "Williams, the daughter of Major John 
Williams, and settled on Mill Creek, at the place where his 
brother had lived. 

He was a surveyor, and with Joseph "\\'right was appointed, 
in 1787, by the county court, to run the transverse lines of 
the district, to ascertain the central point for the location of 
the court house. It resulted, as stated in No. 1. In '89, he 
was one of the county court judges ; and at March term, he 
with Colonel Waters, laid off the two acres now constituting 
the public square of Newberry, then presented by the pro- 
prietor, John Coate, for the public buildings. In 1804, he 
was elected Senator for Newberry District ; in 1808, he was 
superseded by John McMorris. 

He died in December, 1814; his wife soon followed him to 
the grave ; in the summer or fall succeeding, his son, Wil- 
liams, his executor, and a most promising young man, was 
borne to the same silent home. At his death, he flattered 
himself that his son, Wm. T. Caldwell, who had enlisted under 
Major George Butler, and who had been subsequently pro- 
moted to a lieutenancy, might still be alive. But that which 
was then rumor, is now certainty ; he perished in the mas- 
sacre at Fort Mims. 

William Caldwell was the father of ten children, of whom 
five survived him, John, Willi nns, James, Patrick C, and 
Elizabeth, now the wife of F. B. Higgins, Esq. Of these, 
only one now remains, Elizabeth. 

William Caldwell was about the size of his son, Patrick C. 
Cakhvell, except that he was never fat ; he was remarkable 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 233 

for his fine face, intelligent countenance, his perfect symmetry 
of form, and activity. He rode on horseback as long as he 
lived ; he rode a good horse always, and rode well. I last 
remember seeing him 5th July, 1813. He then bore little the 
impress of years. It was then that he said, that he had heard 
people say Bill Cunningham was a coward; but, said he, they 
did not know him ; no braver man ever walked the earth. 

Mr. Caldwell was an eminently useful man. As a surveyor 
and magistrate, he rendered many public services. As a Sen- 
ator, he faithfully discharged the duties of his office. 

He was, I think, a member of the Presbyterian Church, 
Little River. He was a kind husband, father, and master ; 
he was a good neighbor, and attached kinsman, and zealous 
friend. His death made a great void in the settlement where 
he had so long resided, and been so much respected. 



234 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



NO. 22. 

"Let your might be like the spirit of the tempest 
Uprooting the innes of the hill. 
And your vengeance as terrible 
As the mountain torrent. 
Sweeping over the valley of 
The husbandman. 

James Caldwell, of whom, to-day, I am about to write, was 
bora on the day of the battle of Monongahela, Braddock's 
unfortuQate defeat, 8th July, 1755. 

He came with his mother to this State about 1770. He 
continued to reside with her, and bore no active part in the 
Kevolution until 1780. After the siege of Charleston he com- 
manded the company of militia in the neighborhood where he 
lived. On the 17th January, 1781, he commanded a company 
in the battle of the CoAypeng. He was there under the com- 
mand of General Pickens. 

He was probably in the advance, as one of the Carolina 
riflemen, under the command of Major Hammond, afterwards 
Colonel Samuel Hammond, or he was formed, with the rest 
of Pickens' and Brandon's commands, on the left of the 
American line. In either position he was exposed to the 
charge of Tarleton's cavalry. Ramsay says, when the British 
attacked the second line, Tarleton "was cutting down the 
militia." It was in this part of the action, after the militia 
had delivered a most effective fire, within thirty or forty yards 
of the advancing British column, that Captain James Cald- 
well was cut down by a dragoon. His hands were severely 
mutilated in the attempt to protect his head. He had many 
sabre wounds in his head, and one blow took effect immedi- 
ately below his right eye, on the cheek bone, leaving a scar 
and bump which disfigured his face as long as he lived. He 
was supposed to be dead, and after the action was sought for 
by his brother William among the slain. He was found still 
alive, and suffering more for water than his many wounds. 
This his brother brought to him in his hat. His wounds were 
bound up with strips torn from his brother's shirt, which was 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 285 

devoted to tliat purpose. He was then removed to a neigh- 
boring bouse, and after many weeks of suffering, recovered. 
He was thus incapacitated from active service. 

Captain Caldwell, after the Revolution, bore a very prom- 
ineut part in the execution of Matthew Love, at Ninety-Six. 
There is a statement of this affair given in Johnson's Tradi- 
tions of the Revolution, which is very inaccurate. It seems 
to have been prepared by my friend Major Perry, of Green- 
ville, who has there told the tale as it was told to him. 
Love was tried at Ninety-Six in 1784, (while Benjamin Guer- 
ard was governor,) before ^Edanus Burke, one of the associate 
judges, for sedition and murder, committed during the Revolu- 
tionary war. 

It is worth while to pause here for u moment, and inquire, 
and answer, who was Judge Burke. Ramsay tells us he was 
an Irish gentleman, who, with the gallantry characteristic of 
his nation, came from the West Indies at the commencement 
of the Revolution as a volunteer to fight for American liberty. 
He was educated at St. Omers for the priesthood ; he was a 
major in the American army; he was elected a judge of South 
Carolina in April, '78. He long filled with mercy and justice 
this highly responsible office. During his administration he 
perpetrated many an Irish bull for his own amusement and 
the people around him. 

On the occasion to which we have just alluded he held the 
scales with an untrembling hand in the midst of the excited 
Whigs who thronged around the bar, demanding the blood of 
the Tory, Love. Burke held that the acts of which he stood 
charged were done flagrante hello, and that, therefore, he 
was protected by the treaty of peace, and that he must be 
acquitted, which was accordingly done. 

Before he was discharged they (the Whigs,) determined he 
should not escape. Love was an Irishman. He was one of 
Cunningham's men in the bloody scout. He was, I presume, 
present at the massacre at Turner's Station. What part he 
bore in it has never been known. He was at Hays' defeat, 
and the bloody orgies there enacted. He was never charged 
with, there, killing any one. After the fatal massacre of the 
ring, in which every one placed in it, with the exception of 
Major William Dunlap and John Cummins (the two Tinsleys 



236 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

were not in the ring,) were dispatched, Love passed over the 
bloody ground, and plunged his sword into the reeking bodies, 
to ascertain if life remained in any of them. For these 
offences the Whigs, the relatives and friends of the slain, 
determined he should die. The names of the party have de- 
scended to the present time. They are General William But- 
ler, Captain James Caldwell, Colonel Zach S. Brooks, William 
Brooks, John Satterwhite, Bartlett Satterwhite, Robert Gillam, 
James Atwood Williams. Captain James Caldwell (not Gen- 
eral Butler,) was placed at the head. The latter was too 
prominent a man to be selected as the leader. Captain Cald- 
well, pistol in hand, marched into the court-house, took the 
prisoner from the bar. He was taken to the door, and thrown 
upon a horse, held by James Atwood Williams. He was 
thence conducted to a stooping oak, at or near the spring, 
and hanged. Judge Burke, amazed at the outrage, as it 
began, ordered the sheriff to quell the riot. "It is more than 
my life or yours is worth to attempt it," was the reply. The 
Judge instantly adjourned the court, and called to his servant, 
"Kit Kit, get the horses." They were soon got, and he left 
the town, and paused not till he was under the friendly roof of 
his countryman, Samuel Kelly, at Springfield. In his hurried 
journey he dropped his razors. They were brought to him, 
at Springfield, by Caleb Gilbert, whom the judge, in his racy 
Irish, declared to be "an honest fellow." 

He pursued his journey to Charleston, and probably reported 
the matter strongly to Governor Guerard, who is^>ued a procla- 
mation for the apprehension of all concerned. After Burke 
had time to cool and reflect, and was perhaps better informed 
as to the motives of the actors, he wrote and published an 
article excusing the rash act. This ended enquiry. The records 
of the court at Ninety- Six, now in the clerk's office at Abbe- 
ville, contain a precise account of this transaction. It is to be 
hoped some one will copy, and give the entry to the public, 
as matter of history. 

James Caldwell, at one period of his subsequent life, was 
elected, and served one term as a member of the House of 
Representatives. He never could be induced to be a candi- 
date again. He had ascertained, he said, what few others 
have discovered, or have been unwilling to acknowledge, that 
"he was unfit for the plasa." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 287 

In 1807 (December,) he was elected sheriff of Newberry 
District by the Legislature. He entered on his duties in Feb- 
ruary, 1808, and served out his term of four years. Often 
has the writer, when a boy, seen him bearing the sword of 
justice, and wearing the cocked hat of authority, alongside of 
the venerable Judges Grimke, Bay, and others, and venerated 
the scarred veteran of the Revolution. His official term was 
not. I presume, of any great profit to him. The active duties 

re performed by James Farnandis and William Caldwell, 
(Long Bill, as he was familiarly called.) 

He married, after the war, a Miss Forrest, by whom he had 
ten children, who survived him : six sons and four daughters. 
One of his sons and three of his daughters still survive. He 
died in 1813. 

Before his death he united himself to the Presbyterian 
Church, Little River, and was a devout and exemplary mem- 
ber of it to his death. 

Few men, in any country, were as deservedly popular as 
James Caldwell. Enemies he had none. Every body con- 
ceded that Uncle Jimmy Caldwell, as he was called, was like 
Bayard, without spot and without blemish. 

As husband, father, master, neighbor and friend, he was all 
which those relations could demand. 

A friend, Gen. McGowan, of Abbeville, noticing the fact 
that the records of Ninety-Six, at Abbeville, might furnish a 
more accurate account of the execution of Love, published in 
the Abbeville Banner, the result from examination, which I 
now append, with the short article preceding it, written for 
the Sentinel, and then published. 

I have read with great interest the article from the Abbe- 
ville Banner of the ICth, signed "Abbeville.'' 

I have no doubt his correctness of the traditions, which 
were embodied in the twenty -second number of Newberry 
Annals, Historical, &c., are correct. They were set out, as 
they often have been narrated to "Q.", by one whose memory 
he has seldom found at fault. His general accuracy in the 
matter of Love's execution, is shown by a fact stated in "Ab- 
beville's" communication, by which it appears Love swore he 
was unable to pay the costs. It had been often stated to 
"Q." that Love swore he was unable to pay the costs, and 



238 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

yet at the time whea he saw death was inevitable, he drew 
from his pocket a purse of guineas and handed it to his wife. 
This was so strange a fact, and so much at war with the 
present j^ractice of the Court of Sessions, that "Q." hesitated 
to state it. "Q.", as well as "Abbeville," regrets, and, proba- 
bly, from the same feeling of nationality, that Love was an 
Irishman : but the fact is indisputable. In Laurens, New- 
berry, and, he presumes, in Abbeville, many of the Irish were 
Tories. They had received land on the King's bounty, as it 
was called ; and hence, on a principle of gratitude, they were 
loyalists. 

If "Q's." conjecture is right as to the authorship of "Ab- 
beville," he knows that the author has much of the same 
means which "Q." has of preserving some memorials of the 
Revolution ; and he hopes that the traditions which were 
poured into the ears of "Abbeville," by a tongue too dear to 
be forgotten, together with the rich gleanings which may be 
gathered from the records of Ninety-Six, may be given to the 
public. 

Matthew Love. — In a late number of "Annals, Historical, 
Biographical," &c., published in the Newberry Sentinel, over the 
signature of "Q," understood to be written by a distinguished 
member of the Judiciary, there appeared a very interesting 
account of the circumstances connected with the execution of 
■ Matthew Love, at Ninety-Six, soon after the Revolutionary 
war. This account corrects, in several particulars, "the very 
inaccurate statement" of this transaction, which has been 
recently published in "Johnson's Traditions of the Revolu- 
tion," and concludes with the remark that "the records of 
court, at Ninety-Six, in the clerk's office at Abbeville, contains 
a precise account of this transaction, and it is hoped some 
one will copy, and give the entry to the public as a matter 
of history." 

The desire on our part, long entertained, to know the pre- 
cise state of facts, in reference to the high-handed seizure and 
execution of Love, by the patriots of the Revolution, has been 
quickened into activity by this reference to the "records in 
the clerk's office at Abbeville" ; and, in order 'to obtain correct 
information upon the subject, as well for our own gratifica- 
tion as for the benefit of all concerned, we have looked into 
the record. 

We find that the record contains no account whatever of 
the tumultuous proceedings, which, we are informed by tradi- 
tion, occurred after the discharge of Love by the court, but 
it does contain a pretty good account of the judicial proceed- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 239 

dings against bim. Wo suppose the clei-k considered — and if 
so he considered rightly— that it was not his duty to place 
upon the records of the court any thing that occurred after 
the discharge of Love. The supplement was clearly extra- 
judicial. The proceeding at the Post-Oak was a matter for 
the records of history, but not the records of the court. 

It seems that the distinguished author of the "Newberry 
Annals," notwithstanding his usual accuracy, has been misin- 
formed in common with the whole community, in several im- 
portant particulars, in reference to this remarkable transaction. 
It does not appear, from the record, "that Love was tried at 
Ninety-Six, between '85 and '(S7, while Gen. Moultrie was 
Governor, before ^danns Burke, Esq., for horse-stealing, com- 
mitted during the Revolutionary war." This has been the 
common opinion, but it is erroneous in several particulars. 

There has been a slight mistake as to time. Matthew Love 
was before the court at Ninety-Six, (he was never tried at all, 
as we will presently see,) at the fall term of 1784. There is 
no records of any court held at Ninety-Six, after the Declara- 
tion of Independence, before spring, 1783. On the 26th April, 
of that year, the Hon. Thomas Haywood, Jr., seems to have 
held what, in the "Record of General Sessions," is termed the 
"Spring iissizes," for the first time, at Ninety-Six. The 
Journal of the proceedings of that term, commences as if it 
were the first court held there after the war, as we have no 
doubt it was. It begins in solemn i)hrase — "At a court of 
General Sessions, of the peace, held at Ninetv-Six, for the 
District of Ninety-Six, the 2Gth day of April, 1788," &c. 
The preliminaries of peace between the United States and 
Great Britain, were signed on the 30th November, 1782, 
although the definitive treaty of peace and friendship — the 
treaty of Pa?'i.s- -was not formally signed until after this court 
was held, viz : on the 30th of September, 1783. On the 30th 
April, "the court was adjourned to the 2Cth of November 
next." The "November Assizes, 1783," was held by the Hon. 
^danus Burke, who, after a session of two days, adjourned 
"the court of the 26th of April, 1784." The "Spring Assizes, 
1784," was held by the Hon. Henry Pendleton, who continued 
the court until Saturday, May 1st, when "the court adjourned 
to the 26th November next." The record of the ensuing fall 
term commences as follows : — "November 26th, 1784, the court 
met agreeable to adjournment ; present the Hon. -^danus 
Burke, Esq." This is the term which has been made famous 
by the execution of the Tory Love, in violation of the treaty 
of Paris, and in opposition to the law, and in contempt of 
the court and its officers. It commenced on the 20th Novem- 
ber, and ended on Tuesday, the 7th of December, 1784, which 
last seems to have been the day of the discharge and execution. 

Benjamin Guerard was Governor of the Stato at this time, 



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as appears from the following circumstance : — One Jesse Vann 
had been sentenced at a previous court to be hung for horse- 
stealing, but was pardoned by Gov. Guerard. The pardon 
was spread upon the records of the court at this term, and 
bears date Gth May, 1784. Benjamin Guerard was governor 
at the time Love was executed, but Gen. Moultrie suc- 
ceeded him the year after, in 1785, and possibly may have 
"issued a proclamation for the apprehension of all concerned." 
As to this, however, we are uninformed by tradition or other- 
wise. If such a proclamation was ever issued, it would be a 
most interesting document, and it is hoped that some one will 
hunt it up and give it to the public. 

It does not appear that Love was ever charged with the 
offence of horse-stealing, but the charge upon which he was 
committed was that of '''■Sedition and Murder.''' Nor does it 
appear that he was tried and acquitted. No indictment was 
ever given out against him upon any charge. The original 
documents have been examined, and no such indictment can 
be found among the records. Matthew Love's name first ap- 
peared, along with many others, in a report of the Sheriff, 
styled "A Return of Prisoners in Ninety-Six Gaol to Novem- 
ber, 1784." Such a return seems to have been made to every 
court for the purpose of a general jail delivery. This return 
contained the names of the prisoners, when committed, by 
whom committed, and for what offence. By this return, it 
appears that Matthew Love was committed to the jail at 
Ninety-Six, October 3d, 1784, upon information lodged by one 
William Moore, for ''Sedition against the Stated The record 
shows that most of the prisoners named in the Sheriff's list 
were tried diiring the term, and nearly all of them convicted. 
It seems that Tuesday, the 7th day of December, was the last 
of the term, and sentence day. All the prisoners who had 
been tried and convicted were brought up and regularly sen- 
tenced. The sentences of His Honor are recorded at length 
in each case ; and then a separate supplement order is made 
in two cases, one against two men by the name of Lochorn, 
and the other against Matthew Love, indicating clearly, as it 
seems to us, that they were in jail, but had not been tried. 
The Attorney General supposing, probably, that after the 
treaty of Paris, he could not convict them for offences of a 
political character, committed ^'flagrante hello,''- had not given 
out indictments against them. The record stands "cerbatim et 
liberatim" as follows : 

"Ordered that the following prisoners be brought up in 
Court :" 

The State vs. Stephen Lochorn and Jacob Lochorn — Hue 
and Cry from Georgia. Ordered that they be discharged by 
proclamation. Sworn off as to fees. 



AXKALS OF KEWBEERY. 241 

The state vs. Matthew Love — Sedition and Murder. Ordered 
to be discharged. Sworn off as to fees. 

"Ordered, that the treaty of peace between His Britannic 
Majesty and the United States of America, be recorded on the 
records of this cotirt. which is as follows, to wit : — The whole 
treaty is here inserted at length, commencing the definitive 
treaty of peace and friendship, (i'c. Signed at Paris, the 8d 
of September, 1783," &c. 

There is no mention upon the records of any disturbance 
whatever, or of the fate of Love. After the sentences were 
passed, and Lochorn and Love were discharged, it is stated 
that "the court adjourned to the 2Gth day of April next." 

If we are not mistaken, we have seen somewhere the letter of 
Judge Burke, giving an account of what occurred after Love 
was discharged by the court. We would like to see it again. 
Who will have the kindness, also, to hunt up this paper, and 
give it to the public as matter of historj'-? 

The "Records of General Sessions," of old Ninety-Six, com- 
mencing in the spring of 1783, and ending in the fall of 1799, 
contain much rich and racy matter. They are a perfect mine 
for the antiquary and judicial historian. It seems that horse- 
stealing was the great offence of the time, and it was not 
checked until many, very many, had been hung for it. Dur- 
ing the term at which Love was before the court, five persons, 
viz : James Mitchell, John Glover, Philip Cam]>bell, James 
Irwin and William York, were tried, convicted, and sentenced 
to be hung on Christmas day, 1784. The first, named J. 
Mitchell, for "uttering counterfeit money," and all the others 
for "horse-stealing." 

It is said that Matthew Love was an Irishman ; we are 
really sorry to hear it, and hope that further inquiry will 
show that there is a mistake, also, in this particular. Love is- 
reported to have been cruel, blcod-thirsty and revengeful ;, 
these are not characteristics of an Irishman. The Irish wore- 
generally good Whigs, almost 'from necessity. They had left 
oppression in their own Emerald Isle, and therefore, knew the 
value of liberty. They had long known our enemies, the 
British, and entertained for them a hereditary hatred — a 
hatred arising out of long political oppression, and made more 
intense by difference of disposition, manners, race and religion. 
An Irishman could not be a bloody Tory, without doing 
violence to the generous, merciful impulses of his own nature, 
and all his political antecedents, associations and prejudices ; 
in other words, without ceasing to be an Irishman. We sin- 
cerely hope it will turn out that Matthew Love was rot an 
Irishman by birth — he certainly was not by nature. John 
Randolph once said he had yet to see that ^Wara avis in 
terris,^^ an Irish Tory. 

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242 ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 



NO. 23. 

"Men exist in scorn of wrong ; 

Sons of the truth of things ; 
True heart's, brothers, brave and strong, 

Fed from life's perennial springs. 

"Self-devoted, self-denying, 
For a world in sorrow lying. 
Glorious is your God-like aim ; 
Glorious be your deathless fame." 

Father and son are now to be sketched ; both belong to 
that glorious army of suffering, but conquering patriots, who 
held aloft the standard of liberty during the dark and gloomv 
period of the American Revolution. 

Major Robert Gillam, (the father,) removed from Granville 
County, N. C, (where he was born) to Page's Creek, New- 
berry District, before the Revolution began. Before the war 
reached the interior of the State, he was major of militia, 
and in that rank went out against the Cherokees, under the 
command of General "Williamson, called by the Indians the 
coiv driver. 

This service began, probably, before the 15th of July, '7G ; 
for on that day an engagement took place between the Indians 
and Tories, and a detachment from General Williamson's little 
army of five hundred men, commanded by the late Major 
Jonathan Downs, of Laurens. .The Indians and Tories were 
defeated, and thirteen of their number being taken, were found 
to be white men, painted like Indians. 

Just about that period, intelligence of the repulse of the 
British at Sullivan's Island, on the 2Sth of June, reached the 
back country. People of '54, think of the vast advantage you 
now enjoy over your ancestors of '76 ; twenty days brought 
them the news of victory and safety at Charleston — twenty- 
four hours now bring to you the most trifling events at the 
same place ! 

The glorious result of the battle at Fort Moultrie intimi- 
dated the Tories, and sent recruits, six hundred strong, to 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 248 

"Williamson's little host. With three hundred and lifty horse- 
men, Ramsay says he advanced to attack a p?rty of Tories 
and Indians, who were encamped at Occnone Creek. He must 
have had with him also a party of infantry ; for it seems he 
fell into an ambuscade, his horse was shot under him, and 
Salvadore, the proprietor of the Jew's land, Abbeville District, 
was killed and scalped by his side, and defeat seemed to be 
inevitable. At this critical moment, Leroy Hammond, who 
commanded a company, rallied twenty of his men, and direct- 
ing them to reserve their fire, marched rapidly with them to 
the fence behind which the Indians and their allies were 
posted, fired UY)on them, and immediately jumped over and 
charged. The Indians fled from the approaching bayonet, and 
the fortune of the day was saved. 

Williamson pursued his advantage ; burned the town east 
of the Keowee ; but his men could not be induced to pass 
the river until Captain Hammond volunteered, in place of the 
officer designated for that duty, crossed at their head, ajnd 
destroyed all the houses and provisions which they could find. 

Williamson returned to his main body and advanced with 
them to Eighteen Mile Creek, where he encamped '2nd Au- 
gust. As he advanced he sent out detachments to lay waste 
the Indian towns. This cruel, but perhaps necessary duty, 
was performed, and by the 15th the destruction of the lower 
towns was completed. 

On the 13th of September, with an army of two thousand 
men, partly regulars and partly militia, Williamson marched 
into the country of the Cherokees ; he again fell into an am- 
buscade. Ramsay says, in his History of South Carolina, vol. 
i. p. 281: "They (the army) entered a narrow valley, enclosed 
on each side by mountains. Twelve hundred Indians occupied 
these heights, and from them poured in a constant and well- 
directed fire. Detachments were ordered to file off and gain 
the eminences above the Indians, and turn their flanks. 
Others, whose guns were loaded, received orders from Lieut. 
Hampton (Henry Hampton) to advance, and after discharging, 
to fall down and load." Johnson, in his Traditions of the 
Revolution, calls him Captain Hampton, and says, "his orders 
were to his company to fire in platoons, and then fall to the 
ground to reload, while the rest advanced in their smoke. He 



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thiTS lod them to the charge, {idvancing iu the smoke, then 
firing, and reloading on their backs. When he came near 
enough, he charged bayonet, and the enemy fled."' 

The army proceeded further without interruption, and on 
the 23d of September arrived in the valleys, and the sword 
and torch carried death and destruction to the poor, deceived 
Cherokees, and their habitations east of the Apalachian moun- 
tains. Williamson's army returned, and was disbanded by the 
13th of October. 

In this harassing, dangerous, and well-executed campaign, 
Major Gillam performed his part well and faithfully. Par- 
ticular incidents attending it cannot now be obtained. 

A circumstance which occurred during the Revolution shows 
what Major Gillam dared to do. He was on some business 
at Turner's, better known as Long's Bridge, on Little River. 
He was sitting on the fence cleaning his nails with a small 
pen knife ; an athletic Tory, well armed, rode near to him, 
using daring and insolent expressions ; Gillam sprang like a 
tiger at him, seized him by tlie breast, dragged him off bis 
horse, and took him prisoner. 

His age and a large family kept him from that active duty 
which devolved on younger men, after the fall of Charleston, 
in May, 1780. He, however, met with the usual share of 
.sufPering and loss which fell to the Whigs of that time. In 
Cunningham's bloody foray, October, 1781, his house and pro- 
visions were destroyed; he and his family, genevaUij, had 
sought safety in a removal to Broad River. After the war, 
to wit, in 1785, he was appointed one of the justices of the 
county court for Newberry. In Sei)tember, 1786, he entered 
upon the duties of Sheriff of the county. He served out 
faithfully his term of two years, and from that time to the 
close of his life, in 1795, he spent his days in the bosom of 
his famil}', in a peaceful retirement. He died at his original 
settlement on Page's Creek. 

He is described by his grandson. General Gillam, as "tall 
and slim, erect in person, active and sprightly, having a clear 
head, discriminating mind, and remarkable for great goodness 
of heart and suavity of disposition"'; but when aroused by 
injury, or impelled to act by duty, he was "violent, impetu- 
ous," and brave. Such was the father. 



ANXALS OF XEWBERRY. 245 

We turn now to the son, Robert Gillam, Jr. He was born 
in Granville County, North Carolina, 11th Januar}^, 1760. He 
. removed with his father, being then a mere boy, to Page's 
Creek, Newberry District. 

He was one of the expedition against the Cherokees in '76, 
under the command of his father ; he was then a little more 
than sixteen. He was in the battle of Stono, 20th June, 1780; 
Musgrove's Mill, 18th August, 1780; Blackstock's, 20th Novem- 
ber, 1780 ; and Cowi:)ens, on the 17th January, 1781. 

The battle of the Cowpens closed his active military services. 
He narrowly escaj^ed, however, in October, 1781, the vengeance 
of Cunningham's bloody partisans. 

After Green raised the siege of Ninety-Six, his father, with 
most of the family, had removed to Broad River, to escape 
the violence of the Tories. Mrs. Susan Finley, a widowed 
daughter of Major Gillam, occupied the place. Robert Gil- 
lam, Jr., had just finished hauling in the crop of corn, and 
had left for Broad River, when Cunningham's party reached 
the place, and applied the torch to the dwelling house, corn- 
crib, and out-houses generally. Mrs. Finley, knowing many 
of the party, begged one of them to save a bed for her, 
which he did, and put it in the smoke house, the only build- 
ing left standing on the premises. The subje3t of this, 
memoir, ignorant of that which had taken place in his rear, 
was moving leisurely on his journey ; when he arrived at Ben 
Collier's, on Mudlick, he, although a Tory, loved his neighbor, 
hailed Gillam, told him of Cunningham's movements : of the 
murder of John Caldwell, and pointed to the smoking ruins 
of his house, and bade him to fly for his life. He obeyed 
the friendly warning, and before the morning sun arose upon 
him, he was in safety. 

After the war he married Elizabeth Caldwell. (Her memoir 
is given in No. 10.) After it was written, at the great age 
of ninety-fi^ve or ninety-six, she was gathered to her fathers. 
They had two sons and four daughters ; of them, the sons, 
William and General James Gillam, alone remain. Robert 
Gillam was for many years a magistrate of the district ; this 
o£&ce he filled with dignity and intelligence. In all other 
respects, his life was one of "retired happiness." His wife, 
children, and friends, with home, sweet home, Avere his enjoy- 



246 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 



icents. He died at his residence on Page's Creek, in New- 
berry. A recollection of his person, as seen from 1808 to 
1813, shadows him forth as very much of the same size as 
his son, William, perhaps a little stouter and more grey than 
when I last saw him. 

His son, General Gillam, says "he was a man of great 
suavity and good nature ; honest and upright in all his deal- 
ings." This short, but good character, he richly merited. No 
man better deserved the name of an honest, good man. He 
was, I presume, a member of the Presbyterian Church, Little 
River. 

Thus have been presented two soldiers of the old time citi- 
zens of Newberry. Seldom does it happen that the father 
and son serve together in the glorious cause of liberty, and 
are transmitted on the same page to posterity. But so it has 
happened in the Gillam family, and to their memories New- 
berry points as two of the stars on her crown of glory. 



AXN'ALS OF NEWBERRY. 247 



NO. 24. 

"Upward and onward, and who shall e'er pinion 
Our bold eagle's bright wing from the sun ? 

Proudly unfurling o'er freedom's dominion, 
The star and stripe banner of thirty and one ! 

"Foes have assailed her, and seers of disaster 
Thundered of impotence, rupture and shame ; 

Despots and traitors but speed her the faster, 
Upward and onward to glory and fame !" 

The duty of to-day is to perform a promise to a much 
respected friend, who still lives, but whose once active limbs 
and tongue have been deprived of all their power. While we 
mourn this sad chastisement of the mighty and everlasting 
Ruler of the universe, it may be no unfitting tribute to him 
who was once a citizen of Newberry, to write of those from 
whom he derived his being. 

Benjamin Eddins, the grandfather of Major William Eddins, 
to whom allusion has just been made, was a native of Vir- 
ginia, and migrated to South Carolina many years before the 
Revolutionary war. He settled in Ninety-Six District, in the 
vicinity of the village of Ninety-Six. By prudent industry, 
he accumulated enough of this world's things to make himself 
and family comfortable. 

The assemblage of the AVhigs and Tories in opposite camps 
in '75 — the treaty, or armistice, whereby it was agreed that 
the Tories should be neutral — the subsequent seizure of 
Robert Cunningham and others of their chiefs, and sending 
them off to Charleston— the attempt to rescue the former by 
his worthy brother Patrick, and his followers — their seizure of 
the powder, sent by the committee of safety to the Cherokees 
— the attempt by Colonel Williamson to force them to give it 
up — the subsequent siege of him aad his followers, at Ninety- 
Six, and the treaty which disbanded both parties — the advance 
of two thousand men into the interior, under the command of 
Colonel Richardson, in December, '75, called the snotc camps 
—the final dispersion then, and for years afterwards, of the 



248 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Tories — the repulse of the British fleet in June, '7G, at Fort 
Moultrie — the invasion of the State and approach to Charles- 
ton by General Provost, and the battle of Stono, in '79 — 
were all of the war of the Revolution which South Carolina 
had seen, until Sir Henry Clinton environed and captured 
Charleston, in May, 1780. Up to that time, Charleston and 
the State had reaped a rich harvest of wealth from the Revo- 
lution. The port of Charleston was never blockaded, and 
hence trade flowed freely into it. Many of the merchants of 
Charleston realized fortunes. The interior, with the exception 
of a depreciated currency, and the high prices demanded for 
salt, iron, sugar, coffee, and tea, enjoyed abundance and ease. 

"When Charleston fell, well may it be said that South Caro- 
lina put on ''the garment of heaviness." Everywhere misery, 
lamentations, and woe were to follow. The State was regarded 
by the British ofllcers as a conquered, rebellious province. 
They posted garrisons at Orangeburg, Ninety-Six, and Camden. 
These, with intermediate stations and temporary" posts beyond, 
were supposed to be enough to hold the p»ople in subjection. 
They were required to come into the different stations and 
take protection. Some of the leading men of the upper 
country, or backwoods, as it was called, did so ; General Wil- 
liamson and Colonel Mayson were of that number. Many, 
such as Pickens, the Hammonds, Butlers, Williams, Glen, 
Casey, Dugan, Brannon, Waters, Lacy, Hill, McJunkin, the 
Thomases refused ; and among them was found Benjamin 
Eddins. 

In what particular service he xfan engaged is not known. 
He was captured in some partisan affair, and was confined at 
Ninety-Six. as a prisoner of war. While thus shut up, the 
Tories plundered his house, forced his vrife to deliver up all 
his money and every valuable article, inflicted upon her person 
a serious vv'ound, the mark of whif li she bore to her grave, 
and linally fired the dwelling aud out-houses. In a few 
moments all were in ruins, and hii family turned out house- 
less and penniless on the workl. These trying circumstances 
did not move the Spartan man of liberty. He bore all, and 
would have borne more, if required for his country. 

Colonel Cruger, the commandant of the garrison, desiring 
his services, as a pilot for his foraging parties, visited him. 



ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 249 

and offered him his liberty, liberal wages, a commission in 
the British army, and indemnity for his property which had 
been plundered and destroyed. All were rejected with scorn. 
Threats of punishment were then resorted to. To these he 
replied : "I am your prisoner ; you may inflict any cruelty 
your imagination can invent, you may hitch a horse to each 
of my limbs, and tear my body into four pieces, or you can 
(baring his bosom,) cut out my heart and drain it of its last 
drop of blood; hut sir, my services belong to my country, and 
you can never command them.'"' 

This bold answer secured from Cruger a respect which per- 
haps nothing else could have obtained. He liberated him at 
once, without even a parole. He was soon after seen in the 
ranks of General Pickens' command, and served to the end of 
the war. 

He was permitted to live long, and see his country mount- 
ing "upward and onward to glory and fame." He was one 
of the early emigrants to Alabama, and there died full of 
years and honor. 

William Eddins, the son of Benjamin, and the father of 
Major William Eddins, deserves, in this connection a passing 
notice. 

He was a boy in the Revolution, but, at the early age of 
sixteen, he entered the ranks of the few scattered defenders 
of his country. Not long after his service began, he was 
taken prisoner and, Avith other prisoners, started under a guard 
for Ninety-Six. His horse was taken from him and assigned 
to one of the guard. On their way his guard, who had pos- 
session of his horse, dismounted to take "a wee drap" of a 
dram, and placed his musket against a tree — 3^oung Eddins 
was allowed to halt with him — he drank and repeated, until 
the rest of the guard, who, with the prisoners, among whom 
was Eddins' father, had preceded them some distance. Yoiing 
Eddins observing that his keeper had become careless, seized 
his musket, mounted his own horse and escaped. He returned 
home to inform his mother of his escape. He had the pru- 
dence to hide his gun in a hollow log. After night, and after 
the family had retired to bed, the Tories paid them a visit. 
William and has brother secreted themselves between the bed 
and the wall ; but the prying rascals, who wore engaged in 



250 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

the search, discovered the feet of the boys, and were in the 
act of dragging them out, when the mother said, "cZo let the 
children alone.'' For a wonder, they desisted; and, after a 
short time, left the house. William, who was a most advent- 
urous spirit, sprung up and declared he would have "a shoof 
at them. His mother and brother used every dissuasive in 
their power, but in vain ; he drew his gun from the log 
where it had been concealed, and as they passed around a 
swamp near the house, fired ujion them ; with what effect, 
was never known. If they pursued him, he made an easy 
escape. 

In 17S1, he formed a part of the force raised by General 
Pickens to chastise the Cherokees, for an incursion made by 
them, and a number of disguised white men, into the district 
of Ninety-Six. 

Dr. Ramsay, in his history, tells us that Pickens penetrated 
the Indian country, and in fourteen days burned thirteen 
towns, killed upward of forty Indians, and captured many 
more. Not one of his party was killed, and only two 
wounded. He did not expend three pounds of ammunition, 
and yet only three Indians escaped after being seen. How 
such results could be obtained is at first a startling inquiry ; 
but the solution is given by the Doctor, when he tells us that 
the troops, instead of firing, charged on horseback with drawn 
swords. The Indians never have been able to resist a charge 
of mounted men, or the bayonet. 

It is told of William Eddins, that he was one of thirteen 
selected to burn an Indian town which had been reported as 
deserted. They advanced and crossed a river, which separated 
the Indian town from Pickens' command, and began the ascent 
of the hill on which it was situated. The wily Indians from 
their concealment poured a well-directed fire upon them. Two 
young men of the party who were in advance fell from their 
horses ; the rest of the party retreated, and formed to resist 
the Indians until aid could come to them from Pickens. The 
horses of those who fell ran back to the river ; the young men 
who had fallen were seen to rise to a sitting posture. Eddins 
proposed to attempt bringing them off. His captain. Maxwell, 
pointed out the danger of the attempt ; the almost certain 
death which must attend it. Being, however, much pressed 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 251 

by Eddius, lie consented. Eddins caught the horses, led them 
to the wounded men, helped them to mount, and brought 
them safely off. These, I presume, were the two men men- 
tioned by Ramsay as wounded. 

William Eddins remained with Pickens till the close of the 
war. He then entered upon life without money, or means of 
any kind. His first crop of tobacco he made without a horse; 
but persevering industry overcame all difficulties, and during 
his residence in Abbeville, Pendleton, and Edgefield, he real- 
ized a handsome fortune. 

He early became the subject of converting grace ; and was 
received into the communion of the Baptist Church. He soon 
felt it to be his duty to preach the gospel of "peace and good 
will towards men," to the people around him. He had been 
the soldier of his country — he was now the soldier of Im- 
manuel — he had fought for civil and religious liberty — he was 
now to fight for that glorious liberty in Christ which makes 
a man free indeed. He was, until 1810, or 1817, an accept- 
able minister in South Carolina ; about that time he removed 
to Tennessee, twenty-five miles north of Huntsville, Alabama, 
where he continued to exercise his holy calling, doing good 
on the right hand and on the left, and at the same time 
caring for his own household. He died on the '28th July, 
1837, leaving a widow, a daughter and three sons. 

His character may be drawn in a few words. He was 
faithful, true and good — he lived long, but he lived not in 
vain — he was an useful man, a Christian patriot, and an un- 
tiring servant of the Highest. He has gone to his rest, and 
has heard long since the welcome of his master, "Well done, 
good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy 
Lord." 



252 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 



NO. 25. 

MEMOIKS OF COL. JAMES AVILLIAMS. 

"Servant of God, well done ; well hast thou fought 

The better fight who single has maintained — 

Against revolted multitudes, the cause 

Of truth, In word, mightier than they in arms ; 

And for the testimony of truth has borne 

Universal reproach, far worse to bear 

Than violence ; for this was all thy care — 

To stand approved in the sight of God, tho' worlds 

Judged thee perverse ; the easier conquest now 

Remains thee, aided by this host of friends. 

Back on thy foes more glorious to return, 

Than scorned thou didst depart, and to subdue 

By force, who reason for their law refuse. 

[Milton^s Paradise Lost. 

Col. Williams was a native, it is believed, of North Caro- 
lina, probably of Granville County, from which place he 
migrated to South Carolina, in '73. He settled on Little River, 
Laurens District. His original settlement, (Mount Pleasant,) 
is in the possession of Drayton Nance, Esq., of Newberry, 
who married one of his granddaughters. He engaged in the 
mercantile business, as well as that of farming. The former 
he followed until the war of Independence compelled him to 
abandon it. 

He early took part ia the opposition to the measures of the 
British Government.* With Major John Caldwell, John Col- 
cock, Rowland Rugely, Jonathan Downs, John Satterwhite, 
John Williams, John McNees, Charles King, and George Ross, 
he was elected from the district between Broad and Saluda 
Rivers, a member of the Provincial Congress, which assembled 
at Charleston, 11th January, 1775, and which, by the first 
article of the Constitution of '76, was declared to be the 
General Assembly. f He was appointed one of the committee 
for the execution of the American Association for the district 

*l9t Moul. Mem. 17. ■\\si Stat, at Larije, ISC 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 20'1 

between Broad and Saluda Rivers.* In this section of the 
country, many persons from the beginning did not concur in 
the measures of resistance to the mother country. Two of the 
gentlemen named ou the committee, Col. Thos. Fletchall and 
Gen. Robert Cunningham, were afterwards distinguished as 
leaders of the party called Tories. In the years '75, '76 and 
'77, the parties became more distinctly marked ; but, with the 
exception of the capture of the powder, the affair of '70, and 
the Snow Camps, the interior of the State had seen very little 
of the war. The Declaration of Independence, and the treaty 
of amity with the French, gave great discontent to many who, 
in the beginning, had taken a deep interest in the opposition. 
In consequence of this, it is said, Major John Caldwell, who 
was then a captain in the regiment of rangers, resigned his 
commission, retired to his farm, and united with those who 
were for conciliation with the mother country. At the election 
of '78, under the constitution of that year, Col. Williams was 
a candidate for the Senate, from the Little River District.f 
He was defeated by Robert Cunningham, and the entire dele- 
gation of four members to the House of Representatives, was 
elected from the moderate party, or those who were in favor 
of conciliation. They were John Caldwell, Jacob Bowman, 
Jonathan Downs, and Henry O'Neall. All efforts at recon- 
ciliation were, however, soon abandoned, and the parties of 
Whig and Tory assumed irreconcilable grounds. The Senator, 
Robert Cunningham, and two of the Representatives, Jacob 
Bowman and Henry O'Neall, were decided Tories ; the other 
two Representatives, John Caldwell and Jonathan Downs, were 
equally decided Whigs. 

In the course of this election, or on some other occasion, 
when the people were called together, Williams was about 
addressing the people ; before he began, he noticed that 
Robert Cunnincrham was standinof at his elbow. He said to him, 
•'you stand too near me." Cunningham coolly replied, with- 
out changing his position, "I stand very well where I am." 
A blow from Williams followed the reply ; a fight ensued, in 
which Mrs. Williams, with a true woman's devotedness, took 
part with her husband, by seizing Cunningham by his cue, 

*l8t Moul. Mem. 45, tlet Stat, at Large, 139 



254 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

She was gently disengaged by a gentleman present, and the 
rencontre terminated in Cunningham's favor. 

Col. Williams was appointed by the Governor and Council, 
elected by the people, colonel of the militia, and commanded 
on various occasions. From Gen. "Williamson's order of the 
19th of April, 1778, it appears that Col. Williams was then 
in command, and was called on to prepare men and means to 
carry aid to the Georgians, and also to protect this State. 
He went into actual service, as a colonel of the militia, in 
February, or April. 1779. (1st Moult. Memb., 309, 871.) A 
letter written to his wife, 3d June, '79, and another of his 
son, on the 12th of the same month, show that he had then 
been in service for some time. In his letter of the 3d to his 
wife, he speaks of "the probability of an action the other 
day." This refers to the attempt to bring on a general action 
near Stono, 1st June, 1779.* He commanded a detachment of 
militia, (probably a regiment,) in the battle of Stono, 20th 
June, 1779. It is believed he bore a part in the unfortunate 
siege of Savannah, for he was still in service on the 3d of 
September, '79, as appears by a letter of that date to his wife. 

After the fall of Charleston, (12th of May, 1780,) it is sup- 
posed Col. Williams took refuge in North Carolina. On the 
5th of July, 1780, he wrote to his Avife from Sumter's Camp, 
"Catawba Old Nation." In that letter he tells her he left 
his brothers in North Carolina on the 27th of June, with 
his family, (who were, perhaps, his sons Daniel and Joseph, 
for they, it appears, accompanied him, and are spoken of in 
this same letter.) In this interesting letter, written obviously 
to encourage the friends of liberty in the neighborhood of his 
wife, as well as herself, he states the total of the American 
army then approaching Camden, under Gen. DeKalb, at seven 
thousand seven hundred men. He thus states the forces: — 
"Major General DeKalb, Generals Wayne and Smallwood, with 
the Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania troops, to the 
amount of three thousand regulars — two thousand five hundred 
of Virginia militia, marched from Hillsboroufih, being in order 
to join General Caswell, with about two thousand regular 
light horse — on the whole, seven thousand seven hundred, that 



*lst Moul. Mem. 468. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

is now in motion, and will be at Camden in the course u^ _ 
or seven days." 

Here the sanguine patriot and hero was disappointed, for 
on the 25th of July, Gen. Gates found the army encamped 
on Deep River.* If Col. Williams be correct, the general 
gathering of the militia proceeded the arrival of Gates; 
whereas, mo.st of the historical ascribe it to his great name 
and fame. 

In this letter Col. Williams next proceeds to say, that "there 
are five thousand five hundred Virginia militia marching, that 
will be here shortly, (and two thousand North Carolina militia, 
under Gen. Rutherford, that are to march to Ninety-Six,) with 
some South Carolina militia, commanded by Col. Sumter, to 
the amount of five hundred, now in camp at this place, and 
in expectation of crossing the river to-day, with five hundred 
Mecklenburg militia. Over and above all this, there are four 
thousand North Carolina militia more to march, as soon as 
the harvest is over. On the whole, I expect to have day- 
about shortly, with the Tories, when they must give an account 
of their late conduct. I can assure you, my dear, there is a 
French fleet and army on our coast. On the whole, I think 
the state of things is very flattering at present." 

He then narrates some of the events of the Revolution, 
which had just taken place. "I expect (says he) you have 
heard of Moore's defeat in the Forks of the Yadkin, by a 
detached party from Gen. Rutherford, under Capt. Falls, not 
exceeding three hundred and fifty, that defeated one thousand 
three hundred Tories, and took their baggage, with about five 
hundred horses and saddles and guns, and counted eighty-five 
on the field, that they got dead?f Since that. General Cas- 
well has given the English a defeat at the Cheroys, (Cheraw,) 
and cut off the seventy-first regiment entirely." 

As to this last item of intelligence, there must be some 
mistake; for, although it appears that at this time the Seventy- 
First Regiment was stationed at Cheraw, where they were joined 
by eight hundred loyalists, under the command of Col. Bryan, J 
yet we have in none of our histories any account of such a 
decisive action as that mentioned by Col. Williams ; and at 

*lst Otis' Botta, 206. t2nd Magnolia, (18i3) p. 34. J 12th Eamsa}'s 
Univ. Hie., 344. li 25t hRam. Univ. Hist-, 418. 



25G ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

the battle of the Cowpens, ia January, 1781, the first bat- 
tallion of the Seventy-First Regiment surrendered. || 

In this letter Col. Williams farther says : "I can assure 
you and my friends, that the English have never been able 
to make a stand in North Carolina yet; and they have slipped 
their time now, for they are retreating to Charleston with all 
rapidity." This is high and well deserved praise ; for North 
Carolina, although afterwards traversed by Cornwallis, yet 
never was so far subjugated or reduced to the same straits 
and sufferings as her sister, South Carolina. 

For some reason Col. Williams did not participate with 
Sumter in the affair of Huck's defeat, nor in the battle of 
Hanging Rock. It is probable his anxiety for his family, and 
the state of affairs in Ninety-Six, turned his attention to that 
quarter, and that he was engaged in visiting his own fireside, 
and gathering recruits. In the Magnolia of 1840, 2nd vol. p. 
36, Major McJunkin states, that after the battle of Hanging 
Rock, on the march towards Charlotte, Col. Williams joined 
Sumter. It is probable that his force was not sufficiently 
strong to cope with Col. Innis, and hence that ho sought his 
associate. Col. Sumter, and obtained from him the aid v/hich 
enabled him to turn back. He crossed Broad River at Smith's 
Ford, on the evening of the IGth of August, and pressed his 
march with the accustomed celerity of mounted militia men 
of that time. On the 17th, they heard the disheartening in- 
telligence of Gates' defeat at Gum Swamp, near Camden, and 
Sumter's at Fishing Creek. Still Col. Williams and his brave 
associates were not disposed to falter. Col. Innis and his 
troops lay between many of them and their homes. iVt the 
dawn of day, on the 18th of August, 1780, they were ia the 
vicinage of Innis' camp. Of this affair, Gen. Moultrie, in his 
Memoirs, 2nd vol. 220, thus speaks : "On the 18th of Feb- 
ruary, 1780, he (Col. Williams,) attacked a large party of 
British and Tories at Musgrove's Mills, on Enoree River, 
under the command of Col. Innis, of the South Carolina Roy- 
alists, whom he defeated, and wounded Col. Innis." This 
action, thus summarily disposed of by Moultrie, is dispatched 
by Dr. Ramsay, in his History of South Carolina, (1st Ram. 
So. Ca. 354,) in almost the same words, adding, however, that 
'•the whole of his (Col. Innis') party was obliged to retire." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

This action deserves a fuller account. Williams had h,^^, 
one hundred and fifty, Innis three hundred men. Musgrove's 
Mills, called in Mills' Atlas, Gordon's Mills, is in the north- 
east corner of Laurens District, on Enoree River. The British 
forces occupied that position, south of the river, and in full 
command, of a rocky, bad ford. Williams' command was on 
the north side of the river. His main body he drew itp on a 
creek, which runs into Enoree, just below the Spartanburg 
District line. This position was a mile or two from Musgrove's 
Mill. It was both protected and concealed by a wood. His 
little army was drawn up in a semi-circle, and constituted a 
very pretty ambuscade. His arrangement was perfectly sim- 
ple, and in partisan style. With a few picked men, he was 
to approach the river, show himself to the enemy, tire upon 
them, induce them to cross and pursue while he held them in 
check, firing as he fell back to the centre of his ambuscade, 
and thus bring them entirely within his power. The scheme 
was fully and beautifully executed. Col. Innis eagerly pursued 
Williams' flying sharp shooters, and as be advanced, the 
extremities of Williams' semi-circle closed behind him. He 
was surrounded, wounded and most of his militia command 
were taken prisoners. Innis, with his regular troops, escaped. 
Col. Clary, who commanded a detachment of loyalist militia 
in the action, often related his own escape. His horse, he 
said, was seized at the same moment by the opposite checks 
of his bridle bit, by two of Williams' soldiers. He took ad- 
vantage of the confusion of the melee with great presence of 
mind. He said to his captors, "Damn you, don't yon know 
your own ofiicerf*?" He was instantly released, and fled at 
full speed. 

After the battle at Musgrove's Mill, part of Williams' com- 
mand took post at the Cedar Spring, Spartanburg District. 
With the residue of his prisoners he fell back (after visiting 
his family,) to Hillsborough, North Carolina. On the 8th of 
September, 1780, General Nash issued an order from Hills- 
borough to him, authorizing him to raise an hundred horse- 
men, and with them to proceed to such parts as he might 
judge proper. With the troops raised under this order he 
returned to South Carolina, and was joined by many South 

1 Q 



258 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Carolinians. For the old sang, called the Battle of King's 

Mountain, says : 

"Old Williams from Hillsborough came : 

To Mm tlie South Carolinians flocked amain." 

With this force he kept his eye constantly iixed oa Colonel 
Ferguson's movements ; for this partisan officer, recruiting and 
drilling the loyalists, had approached to the foot of the moun- 
tain. The hardy mountaineers of North Carolina and Virginia 
wore in arms to prevent his cro.ssing. Williams penetrated 
between him and the British posts in South Carolina, and was 
continually hovering around his camp. The mountaineers were 
collected under Campbell, Cleveland, Shelby and Sevier. Ac- 
cording to my recollection of the contents of a letter from 
Colonel Williams to them, published some years ago, he stated 
that he had traced Ferguson to King's Mountain, and to pre- 
vent his escape to the country below, and junction with Corn- 
wallis, he invited them to unite with him in pursuing and 
attacking him. They acceded to his request, and according 
to my recollection, appointed the Island Ford, on Broad River, 
as the place of rendezvous. Thence they marched to the 
Cowpens. But in the old song, called the Battle of King's 
Mountain, I see it is stated that the meeting of Williams 
with the other independent colonels was at the Cowpens. 
There they organized for the pursuit and battle by leaving 
all their mefficient men, and pursuing with nine hundred and 
ten men and their fleetest horses. They passed near the 
Limestone Springs, and crossed Broad River at the Cherokee 
Ford, and at the dawn of day, on the 7th of October, 1780, 
tht^y wore near Ferguson's encampment, on Jiing's Mountain. 
The tradition is, that Col. Williams had, at that time, a 
brigadier general's commission from Governor Rutledge. This 
would have given him the command, as the officer highest in 
rank. If the fact were so, he nobly concealed it, and took 
his station as commandant of his own men, among the inde- 
pendent colonels who fotight in that action. His command 
constituted one of the attacking columns by which Ferguson 
was successively and constantly assailed. When last seen, be- 
fore he received his death wound, he was ascending the 
mountain. His charger had been shot through the mouth, 
and at every step was covering his rider v/ith blood and foam. 



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When Colonel Williams was shot, he had turned to his com- 
mand, and was cheering them oavvard. The ball, tired from 
the mountaia heights above him, took effect just between his 
shoulders, and ranged downward though his body. He fell 
withia a few feet of Coloael Ferguson. Colonel Williams was 
borne from the battle-field, lived throughout the succeeding 
night and died the next morning. He lies a mile or two 
from the field of his own and his companions' glory, without 
a stone to mark the spot where rests the body of "Old King's 
Mountain Jim," as he is familiarly spoken of to this day. 

In thg Orion of October, 1843, page 87, in ihe memoir of 
Major Thomas Young, is found an account of the circum- 
stances attending Colonel Williams' death. In the main, they 
correspond with the traditionory account from which the pre- 
ceding is compiled. Some additional circumstances may be 
gleaned from it, and therefore it is here given. Major Young 
says : '"On the top of the mountain, in the thickest of the 
fight, I saw Colonel Williams fall ; and a braver or a better 
man never died upon the field of battle. I had seen him but 
once before that day — it was in the beginning of the action — 
as he charged by me at full speed around the mountain. 
Towards the summit a ball struck his horse just below the 
jaw, when he commenced stamping as if he were in a nest of 
yellow jackets. Colonel Williams threw the reins over the 
animal's neck, sprang to the ground, and dashed onward. 
They carried him, says the Major, into a tent, sprinkled some 
water in his face, he revived, and bis first words were, 'For 
God's sake, boys, don't give up the hill.' '' 

A letter from his sons, Daniel and Joseph, (who were present 
and in the action,) written to their mother from Col. Walker's, 
in North Carolina, dated 13tli October, 1780, simply states that 
their father was wounded in the battle of King's Mountain, on 
the 7th instant, and died on the 8th, and was buried with the 
honors of war on the Dth. 

An aged gentleman, who well knew Colonel Williams, but 
who was himself too young to take any part in the revolution, 
has furnished many of the particular facts contained in this 
memoir. He reported parts of the old song which is called 
the Battle of King's Mountain, which, as a revolutionary relic, 
imperfect though it may be, is yet worthy of preservation: 



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"Old ^Yilliams from Hillsborough came; 

To him the South Corolinians flocked amain. 

****** 

* * * * -X- * 

We marched to the C'owpeus; Campbell was there, 

Shelby, Cleveland, and Colonel Sevier; 

Men of renown, sir, like lions so bold, 

Like lions undaunted, ne'er to be controlled. 

We set out on our march that very same night; 

Sometimes we were wrong, sometimes we were right; 

Our heart's being run in true liberty's mould, 

We valued not hunger, wet, weary nor cold. 

On the top of King's Mountain the old rogue we found, 

And like brave heroes, his camp did surround; 

Like lightning the flashes, like thunder the noise, 

Our rifles struck the poor tories with sudden surprise. 

Old Williams and twenty-five more. 

When the battle was over, lay rolled in their gore; 

With sorrow their bodies were interred in the clay, 

Hoping to Heaven their souls took their way. 

This being ended, we shouted amain. 

Our voices was heard seven miles on the x^lain; 

Liberty shall stand — the tones shall fall: 

Here is the end of my song, so God bless you all!" 

Those who have seen the late Col. James Williams, a son of 
him who fell at King's Mountain, will have a better notion of 
the personal appearance of the revolutionary chief than words 
can give. But to those who never saw the son, we must 
endeavor to convey some notion of the father. He was about 
live feet nine inches high, corpulent — of very dark complexion; 
his hair and eyes were black — his nose was uncommonly 
large, turned up and round at the end — his nostrils, when 
distended by passion or excitement, were so large as to give 
rise to the coarse jest, uttered by one of his militia men, as 
an excuse for his tardiness at a muster: "The boys (he said) 
had been out hunting, and had treed an opossum in the 
Colonel's nose, and hence he was not in attendance.'' 

He left, at his death, five sons and three daughters — 
Daniel, Joseph, John, James, Washington, Elizabeth, Mary 
and Sarah. Of the sons, James and Washington only lived 
to be the fathers of families. The daughters married Major 
John Griffin, James Atwood Williams and James Tinsley. 

Col. Williams is represented to have been a rough, rash 
man, but at the same time of remarkably good dis- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 261 

position. He was free in his intercourse witli all. An 
'example or two may give some notion of him in these 
respects. 

At one time, with an old and favorite negro, he was engaged 
after night in clearing up his store -house. He was holding a 
torch; in one corner was a large pile of unbroken flax. As 
the negro was removing some stands, a large rat sprung by 
the Colonel; and as it plunged into the flax, he applied his 
torch to it, exclaiming, "I'll swinge you." In an instant the 
house was in a blaze, and in spite of all efforts was burned 
up. The Colonel patiently submitted to the rebuke of the 

negro, who cursed him "for all the d d fools" he could 

think of. 

At the battle of Musgrove Mills, he took as a prisoner a 
very diminuitive man of the name of Saul Hinson, who had 
been under the Colonel's command at the battle of Stono. 
Riding along the ranks after the battle, and examining the 
prisoners, he discovered Hinson, and very pleasantly said to 
him, "Ah, my little Sauly, have we caught you?" "Yes,'» 

replied the little man, "and no d d great catch either!" 

Saul's repartee only caused a laugh, and neither tbat nor his 
false position subjected him to any thing beyond the restraint 
of a prisoner. 

All who knew him concurred in ascribing to him great 
personal bravery, and from a review of his conduct at Mus- 
grove's Mill, and in the events preceding the defeat of Fer- 
guson, he is entitled to have it said that he exhibited great 
partisan skill. Of him. Gen. Moultrie says, in his memoir, 
he was a brave and active officer, and warm in the American 
cause. He raised a large body of men, and frequently at- 
tacked the British parties.* Ramsay says, in his History of 
South Carolina, "Col. Williams, of the district of Ninety-Six, 
in particular, was indefatigable in collecting and animating 
the friends of Congress in that settlement. With these he 
frequently harassed the conqueroi-s." When he fell, at King's 
Mountain, the same accomplished historian, speaking of the 
result of the battle says: "The Americans lost comparatively 
few, but in that number was that distinguished officer. Col. 
Williams."-}" 

* 2 Moul. Mem., 220. f 1 Ram. So. Ca., 354. 



202 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

His letters to Lis wife iiud son showed that he had u deep 
and sincere piety. In his letter to his wife of the ^Oth of Sep- 
tember, 177'J, he gives utterance to this feeling. He says, 
"Let us, with humble confidence, rely on Him, that is able 
to protect and defend us in all dangers, and through every 
difficulty; bvit, my dear, let us, with one heart, call on God 
for his mercy, and that his goodness may be continued to us, 
that we, under his blessing, may have i opings of enjoying 
each other once more." 

In his letter of the 5th of July, 1780, speaking of his 
anxiety touching Lis wife and children, and his uncertainty as 
to their situation, he say.:,: ''But I trust in Gocl, that his 
guardian care has been around you. for your protection. I 
have earnestly requested the favor of Heaven on you, which I 
hope has been the case." 

In a rather apocryphal account of a visit to Col. Williams, 
during the revolution, by a missionary, the Rev. S. B. Balch, 
one fact is stated, about which I have no doubt, and that is, 
that the Colonel and his family accompanied him to the place 
of worship on Sunday, and that "the Colonel led the music 
with as much ease as he would have commanded his regiment 
in the day of battle." 

Col. Williams was a Presbyterian, and, like all of that faith, 
his religion placed him on the side of freedom. He, and they, 
thought with John Knox, "that if they suffered the twins, 
libevty and reUgion, either to be infringed or taken from them, 
they had nothing left them whereby they might be called 
men." In the bloodiest trials, and darkest hours of the revo- 
tion, his faith upheld him, and enabled him to say with the 
Psalmist, "The Lord is my light and my salvation — whom 
shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life — of whom 
shall I be afraid?" 

The preceding memoir of Col. James Williams was most 
carefully prepared from his letters, from the recollections of 
him by my father, who, when a boy, lived in his immediate 
vicinity, and knew him well, and from the histories of the 
country: Ramsay's South Carolina, Moultrie's Revolution in 
the Carolinas. Since its last publication, I have seen an 
account of the battle of Musgrove's Mill, which ascribes the 
command to Col. Shelby, and gives a different account of the 



ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 268 

action. As ray object is truth. I append that account, together 
with a most admirable description of the battle of King's 
Mountain, from Ramsay's History of Tennessee. 

[The following scraps of revolutionary history were found 
by Colonel Hardin, of Illinois, among the papers of his father, 
the late General Hardin. They were derived from conversations 
with Colonel Shelby, a prominent actor in tlie scenes which 
are related, who subsequently removed to Kentucky, and was 
there twice elected Governor. The papers were communicated 
to the American Review by Colonel Hardin.] 

BATTLE OF MUSGROVE's MILL. 

In August, 1780, General John McDowell, of North Carolina, 
commanded about two thousand militia, who were stationed at 
Smith's ford, on Broad River, which was about fifteen miles 
below the Cherok3e ford. Colonel Isaac Shelby, of North 
Carolina, commanded a regiment under General McDowell. 
The term of service for which the men had enlisted was just 
about expiring. It was ascertained that there were about seven 
hundred tories camped at Musgrove's Mill, on the Enoree 
River, a few miles distant from the camp of Major Ferguson. 
Col. Shelby conceived the plan of breaking np this camp and 
routing the tories. For this purpose, having obtained leave 
from General McDowell, he raised about seven hundred vol- 
unteers from the army, without regard to rank; very many 
field officers having volunteered, Col. Clark, of North Carolina, 
was made second in command. 

To effect their design, it was necessary that the affair 
should be conducted with both secrecy and despatch. Accord- 
ingly, Shelby's force left General McDowell's camp on the 18th 
of August, a short time before dark. They traveled on through 
the woo'l.-5 until dark, and then fell into the road and pro- 
ceeded on all night, passing within three or four miles of 
Ferguson's camp, and going beyond it to the tory camp at 
Musgrove's Mill. This post was forty miles from McDowell's 
camp. 

Soon aft^r daylight, when Shelby had arrived within half a 
a mile of the camp, a citizen was taken prisoner, from whom 
ho learned that the night previous the Queen's American regi- 
ment, commanded by Colonel Emines, from New York, had 



264 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

reached the post at the mill, and that the enemy were then 
from twelve to thirteen hundred strong. Just as this infor- 
mation was received, the enemy's patrol fell in with the ad- 
vanced corps of Shelby's force. The patrol was immediately 
fired on, and driven in with the loss of seven men. This gave 
the enemy the alarm. Although the tory force was so much 
larger than had been expected, neither Shelby nor his men 
thought of anything but meeting them. Ground was selected 
for an engagement, stretching at right angles across the road, 
about half a mile from the Enoree River. The army was 
formed, Shelby taking command of the right wing, and Col- 
onel Clarke of the left. Colonel Williams, of South Carolina, 
was stationed in the road in the centre, though without a 
se2:)arate command. 

Whilst the tory force was forming, Shelby and his men 
were not idle. Immediately after taking their places in line, 
and securing their horses, they commenced making breast- 
works of logs. In half an hour they had one breast high. 
So soon as this was completed, Shelby sent Capt. Inman, with 
a company of mounted men in advance, to make a false attack 
on the enemy. This feint was well executed. Inman and his 
men charged on the enemy, lired their pieces, and then, as 
directed, fled in apparent confusion. The enemy's centre, on 
whom the false attack had been made, seeing the flight of 
this force, immediately pressed forward in pursuit, in consid- 
erable disorder, shouting, "Huzza for King George." On 
approaching the breast-work, they were unexpectedly met with 
a deadly fire. The sujieriority of the enemy in numbers em- 
boldened them to press forward their attack, notwithstanding 
the advantage which our troops possessed by the breast-work, 
After an hour's hard fighting, the left wing of the enemy, 
composed of the Queen's regiment, drove our right wing, under 
Shelby, from their breast-work. Our left wing, which was 
opposed by the tories, maintained its position. The battle was 
maintained some time longer, the right wing gradually giving 
way, whilst the left flank retained its connection with the centre 
at the breast-work. At this juncture, Col. Clarke sent his 
reserve, consisting of forty men, to Shelby's aid. Shelby 
thereupon rallied his men and ordered a charge, which was 
well seconded by oflicers and men, and the enemy were broken 



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and fled in confusion. The rout now became complete along 
the whole line, and the enemy were pursued to the Enoree 
River, with great slaughter. Above two hundred of the enemy- 
were killed, and two hundred prisoners were taken. On our 
side, Capt. Inman, who had conducted himself most gallantly, 
and thirty men, were killed. 

The broken forces of the enemy having crossed the Enoree, 
it became necessary to follow uj) the pursuit on horseback. 
Shelby called back his forces, and mounted with the intention 
of pursuing the scattered tories, and then turning against 
Eort Ninety Six. While consulting with Col. Clarke, a mes- 
senger arrived from General McDowell, bringing a letter from 
Gov. Caswell to McDowell, informing him of Gates' disastrous 
defeat at Camden, on the 10th of August, and advising all 
officers commanding detachments to retreat, or they would be 
cut off. 

Col. Shelby, perceiving the hazardous position in which he 
was placed by this unexpected calamity, with Cornwallis in 
front and Ferguson on his flank, immediately ordered a retreat. 
Taking his prisoners with him, he traveled all that day and 
the ensuing night, without rest, and continued their march the 
day succeeding, until an hour by sun, when they halted and 
fed their horses. Although they had thus been marching and 
fighting incessantly for forty-eight hours, the indomitable en- 
ergy of their commander permitted his troops no rest, when 
there was danger of losing all by delay. Halting, therefore, 
no longer than was required to feed their horses, the line of 
march was resumed. It was well it was so; for the news of 
the defeat of the tories at Musgrove's Mill had reached Fer- 
guson, who had despatched a strong detachment to intercept 
\ Shelby and release his prisoners. By making a hard forced 
inarch, this detachment reached the spot where Shelby and 
ais men had fed their horses within thirty minutes after they 
\ad left it. But not knowing precisely how long Shelby had 
een gone, and the detachment being entirely exhausted, the 

yrsuit was relinquished and Shelby reached the mountains 

i safety with his prisoners. 

phe time of service of the men having expired, and there 

bhg no opportunity of doing any immediate active duty by 

a Partisan corps, when they reached the road which led to 



206 



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Col. Shelby's residence, ho aud the mou from his neighborhood 
returned home; the jn-isoners being left in charge of Colonel 
Clarke. After going some distance, Col. Clarke in like manner 
returned home, giving the prisoners in charge of Col. Williams, 
who conducted them to Hillsborough. At this placo Col. Wil- 
liams met -with Gov. Kutleclge. who, finding him in charge of 
the prisoners, supposed he had commanded the expedition in 
which they were taken, and as a reward for the gallant 
achievement gave him a briiradier jxenerars commission. 
Without detracting from the merits of Col. Williams, who 
was a gallant officer, is it right to say that this is an 
example too frequent in military history, where the rewards 
of a bold achievement fall on the wrong shoulders? 

Col. Shelby described the battle at Musgrove's Mill as the 
hardest and best fought action he ever was in. He attributed 
this to the great number of officers who were with him as 
volunteers. Considering the nature of the march and the dis- 
parity of numoers, the action at Musgrove's Mill must be con- 
sidered as one of the most brilliant affairs fought by any 
partisan corps during the revolution. 



BATTLE OF KING S MOUNTAIN —SEQUEL TO NO. Jo. 

Gilbert Town is distinguished as the extreme point of British 
invasion in the direction of the home of the mountain men. 
To that place Ferguson, in the execution of his vain threat to 
invade and burn up their village, had advanced, and there 
erected His "NEajesty's standard, with the double purpose of 
securing the co-operation of the loyalists and of ]>reventin<: 
the raising aud concentration of the whigs. 

At that i)Iaco he received intelligence of the avalanche c 
indignant patriotism accumulating along the mountains, ai 
ready to preci})itat9 itself upon and overwhelm his am- 
From that place, enterprising as he w^as, he found it necess }' 
to fall back and seek safety by a junction with the main a?«y 
of Cornwallis, at Charlotte. Every movement of Fergu'U. 
from the time he left his camp at Gilbert Town, indited 
his apprehension of impending danger. He commandeithe 
loyalist militia. He importuned them, he held out the an- 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 267 

guage of prorriise or threatening, to stimulate their allegiance 
and their courage. He called in vain. A cloud was gathering 
upon the mountain, and his loyal militia knew that it por- 
tended a storm and a disastrous overthrow. Ferguson changed 
his language and appealed to them in the words of bitter 
reproach and contemptuous ridicule. On his retreat he issued 
a circular letter to the tory leader?, informing them of an 
'"inundation of Ijarbarians"'— calls the patriotic riflemen "the 
dregs of mankind," and importunes his loyalists thus: "If 
you ^\ish to live and bear the name of men, grasp your arms 
in a moment and run into camp. The backwoods men have 
crossed the mountains; McDowell, Hampton, Shelby and Cleve- 
land are at their head, so that you know what you will have 
to depend upon. If you choose to be degraded for ever aLd 
ever by a set of mongrels, say so at once, and let your women 
turn their backs upou you and look out for real men to pro- 
tect them." 

Ferguson, after breaking up his camp at Gilbert Town, de- 
spatched Abram Collins and Peter Quinn to Lord Cornwallis, 
informing him of his critical situation and begging a rein- 
forcement. After despatching his letter, Ferguson marched, 
on the 4th, over main Broad River to the Cowpens. On the 
5th he continued his march to Tate's, since Dear's Ferry, 
where he again crossed and encamped about a mile above. 
On the 0th he marched about fourteen miles and formed his 
camp on an eminence, where he waited for the expected re- 
inforcements of the loyalists in the neighborhood and of reg- 
ulars from the royal army. The loyalty of the former quailed 
at the approach of the riflemen, and in this hour of need 
their assistance was withheld; they remained out of Fergu- 
son's camp. 

On Wednesday, the fourth of October, the riflemen advanced 
to Gilbert Town. But Ferguson had decamped, having per- 
mitted many of the loyalists to visit their families, under en- 
gagement to join him on the shortest notice. In the meantime 
he took a circuitous march through the neighborhoods in 
which the tories principally resided, to gain time and avoid 
the riflemen until his forces could be collected and join him. 
This retrogade movement betrayed his apprehensions and 
pointed out the necessity of a vigorous effort to overtake him. 



268 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Having gained a knowledge of his designs, the principal 
officers determined, in council, to pursue him with all possible 
despatch. Accordingly, two nights before the action, the of- 
ficers were engaged all night in selecting the best men, the 
best horses and the best rifles, and at the dawn of day took 
Ferguson's trail and pursued him with nine hundred and ten* 
expert marksmen, while those on foot and with weak horses 
were ordered to follow on more leisurely. 

On the pursuit the Americans passed near where several 
large parties of tories were collecting. At the Cowpens sixty 
men under Col. Hambright and Major Chronicle, of Tryon 
county, and Col. Williams, with the South Carolina troops, 
joined them. Here they were informed that a body of six 
hundred tories were assembled at Maj. Gibbs', four miles to 
their right, and would join Ferguson the next day. These 
they did not take time to molest. The riflemen from the 
mountains had turned out to catch Ferguson. He was their 
object; and for the last thirty-six hours of the pursuit they 
never alighted from their horses but once to refresh for an 
hour at the Cowpens, although the day of the battle was so 
extremely wet that the men could not keep their guns dry, 
by wrapping their sacks, blankets and hunting shirts around 
the locks, thus exposing their bodies in a heavy and incessant 
rain. The trail every hour became more fresh, and the 
Americans hurried on eagerly after the prey, which tliey de- 
termined should not escape their grasp. The advance met 
some unarmed men, who were fresh from Ferguson' camp; 
a short halt was made, and these men were closely exam- 
ined. From them it was ascertained that the enemy was en- 
camped three miles before them, and were to march next 
morning to Lord Cornwallis' headquarters; his position was 
accurately described, and the route to the camp minutely 
given. Col. Williams and some of his men were well ac- 
quainted with the shape of the ground and the approaches 
to it. 

It was now after twelve o'clock: the rain had ceased, the 
clouds were passing off, the sun shone brightly, and nature 

*I quote from the Shelby papers in my possession, and from which 
many of the details of this expedition have been d^ived. Haywood has 
extracted from them also. 



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2m 



seemed to smile upon the enterprise on hand. It was deter- 
mined to march at once upon the camp, and decide the con- 
flict without rest or refreshment. Each man was ordered to 
'•tie up his overeoat and blanket, throw the priming out of 
his pan, pick his touch-hole, prime anew, examine his bullets, 
and see that everything was in readiness for battle." While 
this was being done the officers agreed upon the general plan 
of attack, which was to surround the eminence and make a 
simultaneous assault upon every part of the camp. The men 
were soon in their saddles and upon their march. When 
within a mile of the battle ground an express from Ferguson 
was arrested, on whom was found a despatch to Lord Corn- 
wallis, urging him to send immediately reinforcements, and 
stating the number under his command, and that he was se- 
curely encamped upon a hill, which, in honor of His Majesty, 
he had named King's Mountain, and that if all the rebels out 
of h-11 should attack him they should not drive him from it. 
The contents of the despatch were, with the exception of the 
number of the enemy, communicated to the riflemen, the 
march was resumed, their pace quickened, and they rode in a 
gallop within view of the camp of Ferguson. 

A closer examination of the ground and the position of the 
enemy demonstrated the feasibility of the plan of attack 
already concerted by the officers. More minute arrangements 
were immediately made and carried into execution. It was 
decided that the troops commanded by Winstone, McDowell, 
Sevier, Shelby and Campbell, being something more than half 
of the whole number of assailants, after tying their horses^ 
should file to the right and pass the mountains nearly out of 
reach of the enemy's guns, and continue around it till they 
should meet the rest of the troops encircling the mountains, 
on the other side and led by Hambright and Chronicle, and 
followed by Cleveland and Williams; after which each com- 
mand was to face to the front, raise the Indian war whoop 
and advance upon the enemy. Accordingly the troops moved 
forward, and passing up a ravine between two rocky knolls 
came in full view of the enemy's camp above them and about 
one hundred poles in front. Here they dismounted, and having 
tied their horses left a small guard with them. The right 
wing or column was led by Winston and Sevier, the left by 



270 ANNALS 07 NEffBSRRY. 

Cleveland aad Williams; the centre was composed l»y Camp- 
bell's men on the right and Shelby's on the left. In the 
order, each oflficer having formed his ranks led off at the 
same time to the position assigned him under pilots selected 
from Col. Williams' men, who were familiar with the ground. 

On his march around the mountain the right column dis- 
covered that there were two gaps in the right at the enemy's 
left flank — one about twenty poles from it, the other fifty. 
It was decided to pass through the latter. About the time 
they entered it the enemy began to fire on them. The fire 
at first did not attract attention, until some of Shelby's men 
being wounded, that officer and McDowell determined to 
return the fire, and before they had crossed the ridge 
broke off towards the enemy through the gap nearest to 
his camp, and discharged their rifles with great effect. The 
rest of the column under Campbell ascended the mountain, 
and poured in a deadly fire upon the enemy posted upon 
its summit. The firing became so heavy as to attract the 
attention of Ferguson, who immediately brought up a part 
of the regulars from the other end of the line, and a brisk 
charge was made upon the American right by the British 
regulars and of the tories. 

This charge pushed McDowell, Shelby and Campbell down 
the mountain. At this moment the column under Harabright, 
Chronicle, Cleveland and Williams had driven in the enemy's 
picquet at the other extremity of the encampment, and ad- 
vancing up the mountain poured in a well-directed fire upon 
the enemy, protected here by their wagons and some slight 
defences, and commanded by Ferguson himself. Dupeister, 
his second in command, was immediately recalled, ordered 
into line on the ridge, and directed to make a charge with 
all the regulars upon the Americans at the end of the en- 
campniient. On his passage to the relief of Ferguson, Du- 
peister received a galling fire from the South Carolinians 
under Williams. The regulars soon rallied, made a desj^erate 
charge and drove the riflemen to the hill. Here Major Chron- 
icle fell. 

In the meantime, the recall of Dupeister from the charge 
at the other extremity of the mountain gave the appearance 
there of a retreat on the part of the enemy, and the men 



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271 



tinder Shelby, McDowell and Campbell having been disorgan- 
ized, produced by the first charge, rallied to tlie pursuit. The 
cry was raised, '"Huzza, boys, they are retreating! Come on." 
They advanced with great firmness up to the hill, almost to 
the lines of the encampment, and for some time maintained a 
deadly conflict with the riflemen. Ferguson, as before, decided 
to resort again to the bayonet. But the marksmen had so 
thinned the regulars the expedient was adopted of trimming 
the handles of the butcher knives, and adapting them in the 
muzzles of the tory rifle.s, and thus u?ing them in the charge. 
With the number of his bayonets thus enlarged, Dupeister 
returned to his first position, and made another charge. It 
was short and. feebly executed, and the regulars returned, 
within their lines. 

About this time the front of the two American columns had 
met, and the army of Ferguson was surrounded by the rifle- 
men. Their firing became incessant and general in all quar- 
ters, but especially at the two ends of the enemy's line. 
Sevier pressed against the centre, and was charged upon by 
the regulars. The conflict here became stubborn, and drew to 
it much of the enemy's force. This enabled Shelby and 
Campbell to reach and hold the crest of the mountain. 

On all sides, now, the fire was brisk and. deadly, and the 
charges with the bayonet, though less vigorous, were frequent. 
In all cases where the enemy charged the Americans on one 
side of the hill, those on the other thought he was retreating, 
and advanced near the summit. But in all these movements 
the left of Ferguson's line was gradually receding, and the 
Americans were plying their rifles with terrible effect. Fergu- 
son was still in the heat of the battle. With characteristic 
coolness and daring he ordered Captain Dupeister to reinforce 
a position about one hundred yards distant with his regulars: 
but before they reached it they were thinned too much by 
the American rifles to render any effectual support. He then 
ordered his cavalry to mount, with a view of making a des- 
perate onset at their head. But those only presented a better 
mark for the rifle, and fell as fast as they could mount their 
horses. He rode from one end ot the line to the other, en- 
couraging his men to prolong 1h.3 conflict. With desperate 
courage he passed from one expo.sed point to another of o|ial 



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danger. He carried, in his wounded hand, a shrill sounding 
silver whistle, whose signal was universally known throughout 
the battle, and gave a kind of ubiquity to his movements.* 

But the Americans having reached the top of the mountain 
were gradually compressing the enemy, and the line of Fer- 
guson's encampment was sensibly contracted. A flag was raised 
by the tories in token of surrender. Ferguson rode up to it 
and pulled it down. A second flag was raised at the other 
end of the line. He rode there too, and cut it down with his 
sword. He was frequently admonished by Dupeister to sur- 
render; but his proud spirit could not deign to give up to a 
raw and undisciplined militia. "When the second flag was cut 
down, Dupeister renewed his admonition. To this he replied 
by declaring he would never surrender to such a damned set 
of banditti as the mountain men. These men, while they 
admired the unyielding spirit of Ferguson, had noticed, that 
whenever his voice or whistle was heard, the enemy was 
inspirited to another rally. They believed that while he sur- 
vived, his desperate courage would not permit a surrender. 
He feel soon after, and immediately expired. 

The forward movement of all the American columns brought 
them to a level with the enemy's guns, which heretofore iu 
most instances had overshot their heads. The horizontal fire 
of the regulors was now considerably fatal; but the rapid 
advance of the riflemen soon surrounded both them and the 
tories, who, being crowded close together and cooped up into 
a narrow space by the surrounding pressure of the American 
troops, and fatally galled by their incessant fire, lost all hope 
from further resistance. Dupeister, who succeeded Ferguson 
in command, perceiving that further struggle was in vain, 
hoisted the white flag and claimed quarters. A general ces- 
sation of the American fire followed; but this cessation was 
not complete. Some of the young men did not understand 
the meaning of a white flag; others who did, knew that other 
flags had been raised before, and were quickly taken down. 
Shelby hallooed out to them to throw down their guns, as all 
would understand that as a surrender. This was immediately 
done. The arras were now lying in front of the prisoners, 
without any orders how to dispose of them. Col. Shelby 

-A- Ferguson. 



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seeing the facility with which the enemy conld resume their 
guns, exclaimed: ''Great God! what can we do in this con- 
fusion ?"' We can order the prisoners from their arms," said 
Sawyers. "Ye.s," said Shelby, "that can be done."' The 
prisoners were accordingly marched to another place, and 
there surrounded by a double guard. 

The battle of King's Mountain lasted about an hour. The 
loss of the enemy was two hundred and twenty-five killed, 
one hundred and eighty wounded, seven hundred prisoners, 
fifteen hundred stand of arms, and a great many horses and 
wagons, loaded with supplies, and booty of every kind, taken 
by the plundering tories from the wealthy whigs. 

General Bernard, an ofi&cer under Napoleon, and afterwards 
in the United States Engineer Service, on examining the bat- 
tle ground of King's Mountain, said: '"The Americans, 
by their victory in that engagement, erected a monument to 
to perpetuate the memory of the brave men who had fallen 
there; and the shape of the hill itself would be an eternal 
monument to the military genius and skill of Col. Ferguson, 
in selecting a position so well adapted for defence; and that 
no other plan of assault but that pursued by the mountain 
men could have succeeded against him."* 

The loss of the Americans was thirty killed, and about twice 
that number wounded. On the former, was Colonel Williams, 
of South Carolina. He fell a victim to the true Palmetto 
spirit, an intemperate eagerness for battle. Towards the close 
of an engagement he espied Ferguson riding near the line, 
and dashed towards him with the gallant determination of a 
personal encounter. "I will kill Ferguson, or die in the at- 
tempt!" exclaimed Williams, and spurring his horse in the 
direction of the enemy, received a bullet as he crossed the 
line. He survived till he heard that his antagonist was killed 
and his camp surrendered; and amid the shouts of victory by 
his triumphant countrymen, said: "I die contented," and, 
with a smile upon his countenance, expired. 

'■' The account of the battle of Kmg's Mountain has been taken from 
the Shelby jiapers, the writteu statements of Gen. Graham ami Lenoir, 
Mr. Foster's Essay, and manuscript narratives of several of the riflemen 
who participated in it. The official report has been seen for the first 
time by the writer, in "Wheeler's History of North Carolina," just out of 
press. It is giver-i at p^^ge 243. 

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274 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Major Chronicle, who with Colonel Hambright led the left 
wing, was, in passing round the end of the mountain, much 
exposed to the tire of the enemy above them, and little more 
than one hundred yards distant. He fell early in the en- 
gagement at the foot of the hill, near the junction of the two 
streams, while gallantly repulsing the British charge. A plain 
monument attests the grateful remembrance of his country 
men. It bears this inscription: 

SACRED 

TO THE MEMORY OF 

MAJOR WILLIAM CHRONICLE, 

CAPT. JOHN MATTOCKS, 

WILLIAM ROBB. 

AND 

JOHN BOYD, 

Who were killed at this place, on the seventh day of October, 1780, 

fighting in defence of America. 

On the other side of the monument, facing the battle 
ground, is inscribed: 

COL. FERGUSON, 

An officer of his Britannic Majesty, 

Was defeated and killed, 

At this place, 

On the 7th day of October, 

1780. 

Of Col. Campbell's regiment, Lieut. Edmondston, two others 
of the same name and family, and ten of their associates in 
arms, were killed. The names of the Virginia officers are 
Captains Dysart, Colville, Edmondston, Beattie and Graig; 
Lieutenants Edmondston, Brown; Ensign Kobert Campbell, 
who killed the British Adjutant, McGinuis, at the head of a 
charging party. Capt. Robert Edmondston said to one of his 
men, John McCrosky, that he did not like his place, and 
broke forward to the hottest part of the battle, and there 
received the charge of Dupeister's regulars, discharged his 
rifle, clubbe:! his gun. knocked the musket out of the hands 
of one of the soldiers, and, seizing him by the neck, made 
him his prisoner and brought him to the foot of the hill. 
Returning again to the British line, he received a mortal 
wound in the breast. After the surrender, McCrosky went in 
search oi his captain, and told him the battle was over and 



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the tories were defeated. Edmondstoa nodded satisfaction 
and died. 

Of the wounded in Col. Shelby's regiment was his brother, 
Moses Shelby, who, in a bold attempt to storm the enemy's 
camp, leaped upon one of the wagons out of which the breast- 
work was formed, and was wounded. Fagan and some others 
suffered in the same way. Col. Snodgx-ass, late of Sullivan 
county, belonged to Col. Shelby's regiment. His captains 
were Elliott, Maxwell and Webb, Lieut. Sway. 

Of the regiment from Washington county, and commanded 
by Col. Sevier, the captains were his two brothers, Valentine 
Sevier, Robt. Sevier, Joel Gallahan, George Doherty, and 
Russell; Lieutenant Isaac Lane. Capt. Robert Sevier was 
wounded in the abdomen, and died the second or third day 
after, and was buried at Bright's. 

Among the pr'vates were four others of the Sevier family, 
viz: Abraham Sevier, Joseph ^ Sevier, and two of Col. Sevier's 
sons, Joseph and James, the latter in his' xteenth year. 

William Lenoir (since General Lenoir) was a captain 
under Winston. He was encouraging the men who had 
received Dupeister's second charge, to load well and make 
a bold push against their assailants, when he received a 
slight wound in his left arm, and another in his side, 
while a bullet passed through his hair, just below the tie, 
without touching the skin. 

The victory of King's Mountain was complete. Not one 
ol the enemy escaped during the battle; from its com- 
mencement they were surrounded and could not escape- 
The army encamped upon the battle ground the night of 
the seventh. They had more prisoners than whigs with 
whom to guard them. They were in the neighborhood of 
several parties of tories, and had reason to expect that 
Tarleton, or some reinforcements from Lord Cornwallis, 
would attempt either to pursue or intercept them. The 
next day was the Sabbath. Its dawn was solemnized by 
the burial of the dead. This mournful duty performed, 
the enemy's wagons were drawn by the men across their 
camp fires, and after they were consumed the retui'n march 
was commenced. 

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270 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

remains almost unnoticed, while defeats, in other sections 
have been celebrated by anniversaries and monuments. ^Vhy, 
in these days of railroads and excursions, cannot the de- 
scendants of Shelby, Sevier, Campbell, McDowell and Wil- 
liams, and the brave men who fought with them, assemble 
on the spot consecrated by so much valor and patriotism, 
and commemorate with appropriate ceremonies the glorious 
event on its next anniversary, the 7th of October? 

In a memoir prepared by Col. Wm. Hill, late of York 
district, and by him placed in the hands of Gen. Sumter, 
he states that the battle at Musgrove's Mill was fougrht 
by men commanded by Wm. McDowell, Clarke and Shelby. 

He also states what is stated in the account, purported 
to be taken from Col. Shelby, that really the great merit 
of the action was attributable to Shelby; but that Williams 
being in possession of the prisoners, and meeting Governor 
Rutledge at Hillsboro', who supposed that Williams was 
the hero of the battle, gave him the commission of a 
Brigadier General. 

There is much in Col. Hill's memoir to detract from the 
merit of Col. Williams. He alleges that he. Col. Williams, 
desired to turn the independent Colonels from Ferguson 
and King's Mountain, and to direct them against Ninety- 
Six. This may be true: for he might have well concluded, 
with such a force, Ninety-Six would be carried as with a 
roiqj de main, and all that interesting country south of 
Broad River relieved from the presence of the enemy. 
Such an achievement would indeed have been worthy of 
the undertaking of one of the greatest commanders. 

No doubt, however, that Campbell, Shelby, Lenoir, Cleve- 
land, McDowell and Lacy were right in refusing to turn 
aside. They had the lion at bay, and his death, or cap- 
ture, was of great consequence. Indeed, the battle of 
King's Mountain was the turning point of the revolution 
in the South. 

Col. Williams, ho atiirms, had no command beyond his 
own small ])arty, and that he was killed at the moment of 
surrender, and he says, "as was supposed by some of the 
Americans, as many of them had been heard to swear they 
would do it whenever they had an opportunity." This 



ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 277 

threat, he says, arose from Col. Williams' attempt to obtaia 
command of the South Carolinians commanded by Lacy, 
under his commission as Brigadier General. 

This is from an officer in command on that day, and 
yet, I think, there must be some mistake about it. There 
is everything in Col. Williams' life, letters, services and 
the tradition in relation to him, to make us believe that 
he was good and true. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 



NO. 20. 

"Upward and onward, America, ever, 

Be thy bold Eagle's swift flight to the sun ; 
Wither the arm ever lifted to sever 

Our golden link of the Thirty-and-One 
Free as the breezes of heaven that fan her, 

Long as eternity, mortals await, 
May the bright folds of the star spangled banner 

Float at the stern of the old ship of State.'' 

The duty now before me is to close this work, with the ex- 
ception of addenda to some of the previous numbers, such as 
a biographical sketch of my early and late friend, Ker Boyce, 
Esq. This will, with those of Y. J. Harrington and John S. 
Carwile, Esqs., already published, take their places in No. 8. 

To-day I propose to sketch, imperfectly, I know, and per- 
haps too partially, the life and times of Hugh O'Neall, one of 
Newberry's oldest and best citizens. 

He was born on Mudlick, Laurens district, at the place, late 
the property of John Armstrong, deceased, on the 10th of June, 
1767. He was the second son of William O'Neall and his wife, 
Mary Frost. They removed after the birth of their two first 
children, Abijah and Sarah, to South Carolina. The family 
remained in Laurens until after the birth of Henry, the third 
son, who, I think, was born in '77; indeed I think they did 
not remove to Newberry until 1779. The family consisted of 
six sons; Abijah, Hugh, William, John, Henry and Thomas, 
and one daughter, Sarah, all of whom lived to rear families. 
Abijah removed in '99 to Ohio, near Waynesville, Warren county. 
Sarah married Elisha Ford, and removed to Shelby county, 
Kentucky. William died on Bush river; his body rests in the 
graveyard of Friends, near Mendenhall's Mills. John, Henry 
and Thomas removed to Indiana. They have all been gather- 
ered to their rest, leaving families more or less numerous. 

William O'Neall's fathers name was Hugh; he was, I think, 
a midshipman in, or at any rate he belonged to, the English 
navy, and not liking his berth, while at anchor in the Delaware 
he jumped overboard, swam ashore, and landed near Wilming- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 279 

ton, as well as I re nembor, at the little Swedish town of Chris- 
tiana; this took place about 1730; here he lived many years, 
and married Annie Cox. On landing, to escape detection, he 
altered the spelling of his name, either from O'Neill or O'Neale 
to O'Neall; the latter is the tradition. His family consisted of 
William, James, Hugh. Henry, John, Thomas, a daughter, Mary, 
and a posthumous son, George. In his life time he removed 
to the Susquehanna, and there he died; his family thence re- 
moved to Winchester, Virginia; there William married his wife, 
Mary Frost; and there, as already mentioned, his two eldest 
children were born. 

The family, with the exception of James and George, removed 
about 1700 to South Carolina. Thomas died at Parkins (now 
Crofts) on Saluda, and was the first person buried in that grave- 
yard. Hugh married a Parkins, and settled and died at Mil- 
ton, Laurens district. Henry married a Chambers, lived in 
Laurens, and there remained till the close of the revolution, 
when he removed to Florida, and settled the place at the mouth 
of St. Mary's river (where his grandson, the Hon. James T. 
O'Neill, now resides); he (Henry O'Neall) was killed in an at- 
tempt to seize an outlaw soon after his removal; he left a large 
family — James, Eber, Thomas, William, Henry, Asa, Hugh and 
Margaret; all are dead except Margaret, now Mrs. King, of 
Georgia; none had families except Eber, William and Mar- 
garet. 

William O'Neall was a Friend; when he joined that body of 
religionists is not known; his wife also belonged to the same', 
his brother, Hugh, inclined the same way; so did his wife and 
the entire Parkins family. In the revolution neither of these 
brothers took any part, except to bury the dead, heal the 
wounded, and do good wherever they could. James and George 
belonged to the American army; the former was a Major in the 
Virginia line, the latter a common soldier. Both served the 
entire war, and at its close, ignorantly supposing that the O*' 
in their names was some aristocratic distinction, instead of 
meaning, as it really does, the "son of," struck it off and wrote 
their names Neall. James settled at, or near, Wheeling, Vir- 
ginia; George in Jessamine county, near Nicholassville, Ken- 
tucky: they both have been dead many years; each left fam- 
ilies surviving them. I should be proud if their descendants 



280 ANNALS OF NE^YBERRY. 

would resume the O', which rightfully belongs to their name. 

Henry and John, unfortunately, sided with the tories. Henry, 
it is said, after his determination was made, and he had accepted 
a Major's commission in the British army, passed into Virginia 
to see his brother James, and proposed, if they should ever 
meet in battle, that they would treat each other as brothers; 
but the stern republican would accept no such amnesty; "in 
peace, brethren; in war, enemies," was his reply. Fortunately, 
they never met in arms. 

John married Grace Frost, the sister of his brother William's 
wife; he was a captain in the tory foi'ces, and was killed in a 
skirmish with Colonel Roebuck, in Union district; he left two 
daughters, Sarah, and, I think, Rebecca; his widow married a 
well known citizen of Pendleton, Mr. Crosby. Mary married 
Frederick Jones. She had an onlv son, Marmaduke, who will 
be remembered as a resident of Laurens district, in the neigh- 
borhood of Milton. 

Having thus stated his ancestral families, and his fathers, 
I now propose to give a sketch of the life and times of Hugh 
O'Neal 1. 

He went early to school, he learned rapidly: most of that 
which he learned was with a Virginian, Beoj. Smith. In his 
school, in company with Major John Griffin, James C. Griffin, 
the Williams', Cresswells, Caldwells, he acquired the common 
elementary education, reading, writing and arithmetic. Read- 
ing, all his life, was his great delight; he began early and 
continued late. His memory was early developed and long re- 
tained; often in middle life, and even in old age, has he recited 
many passages in the tragedy called the Battle of tbe Boyne, 
which ho had read when a boy among his uncle Henry's books. 
The poem called Sir James the R jss, was another read in the 
same way, which he often repeated. One of his early exercises 
was a riddle, propounded by his teacher, Mr. Smith, i)retty 
much as follows, viz. : 

Beneath the heavens, a creature once did dwell, 

As sacred writers unto us do tell; 

He lived, he breathed in this lower world, it is true, 

But never sinned, nor any evil knew; 

He never shall be raised from the dead, 

Nor at tlie day of judgment show his head; 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 281 

He never shall in heaven dwell, 
Nor yet be doomed to feel the pains of hell — 
Yet in him, a soul there was, that must 
Be lost, or live above, among the just. 

This he solved by giving Jonah in the whale's belly, and often 
repeated it in manhood, and age. Benj. Smith was one of the 
Virginia troops on service in '70, perhaps against the Cherokee 
Indians, under Christie, or in Gen. Lee's projected invasion of 
Florida, and was either left, as unable to travel on the return 
march, or discharged. Krom the description given of him, he 
was both a man of talents and education. His impress was to 
be seen on all his scholars. 

In, I presume, the year '78 was the great May frost, which 
took place on the 4th, and utterly destroyed vegetation and 
the crops; a small crop of late wheat was saved by William 
O'Neall. In the same year was the total eclipse of the sun. 
The total darkness was so great that chickens went to roost. 
The upper part of South Carolina, as has been frequently and 
justly said, scarcely knew that there was war, until the siege 
of Charleston. The incursion of the Cherokees on the 30th of 
June, '76, drove the settlers nearest the frontiers from their 
homes. JVilliam O'Neall, with his family, fled from Mudlick 
to Benj. Pearson's, near Kelly's old store, now Springfield. 
Often has Hugh O'Neall pointed out the old field west of Dr. 
Wm. Harrington's attempted settlement, in Frost's old field, as 
being then in cultivation, and stated the fact, that he had swam 
in Pearson" s Mill pond on Scott's creek, where Fernandes' pond 
lately was. 

In 1780, when Charleston fell, William O'Neall and family 
lived at the place, about a mile west of Bobo's Mills, and on 
the southwest side of Bush river. He then owned the mill, 
known for thirty years as O'Neall's, now owned by Dr. J. E. 
Bobo, about one and a half miles below Mendenhall's. Hugh 
O'Neall, the subject of this memoir, was then thirteen years 
old; yet his services were so necessary to his father, that he 
either attended entirely to the mill, or was a constant assist- 
ant. In that way, although no actor in the revolution, yet he 
became fully informed of most of the events of that dark and 
bloody period. The mill was the most public place in that 
section of the country. Across Bush river, at that place, was 



282 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

the mo^t common thoroughfare frjm the Congaree and Charles- 
ton to pass south beyond Saluda, and west to Little river and 
Ninety-Six. There, were often halted the scouts, sometimes the 
armies; there, too, were provisions seized, as want, or power 
dictated. There, as he often afterwards said, did he learn to 
hate the proud, overbearing character of the British officers. 
There he heard narrated the accounts of the many deeds of 
violence and bloo 1 with which the country was overspread. 
The various sketches of men and events heretofore given are 
in a greater, or less degree, dependent upon his wonderful 
memory for their accuracy. 

To give a true sketch of the bloody partisan war from 1780 
to 1783, would be a most Herculean task; much of it has been 
already done in the different biographical sketches and anec- 
dotes already piiblished. Blood and plunder were the watch- 
words of many of the different parties who swept over old 
Ninety-Six. "Each party,'' (as Gen. Moultrie, in his memoirs, 
vol. 2d, p. 301, appropriately says.) "oppressed the other as 
much as they possibly could, which raised their inveteracy to 
so great a height that they carried on the war with savage 
cruelty; although they had been friends, neighbors and broth- 
ers, they had no feelings for each other, and no principles of 
humanity left." At page 303 he says: "The conduct of these 
two parties, (whigs and tories,) was a disgrace to human na- 
ture, and it may, with safety, be said that they destroyed more 
property, shed more American blood, than the whole British 
army." The pictures thus given in a few words, are, unfor- 
tunately, too true, and ought' to teach us to beware of the ten- 
dencies to civil war, which I sometimes fear are too much en- 
couraged. 

Having in the Random Recollections of the Revolution, pub- 
lished in 1838, given most of these atrocious scenes, as narra- 
ted by Hugh O'Neall, I shall not again repeat them. If ever 
these matters should see the light in book form, I shall take 
pleasure in revising and adding to them. 

I may here mention an incident as occurring in the imme- 
diate vicinage of the quiet meeting house of Friends, on Bush 
river. One of the marauding parties had captured a man, 
whom they deemed worthy of death. Meeting with a young 
Quaker, Richard Thomson, between the meeting house and 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKBY. 288 

his father's, Tanner Joe Thomson, (as he was usually called.) 
they compelled the youth with a sword to slay the captive. 
How much of Eichard Thomson's subsequent misfortunes, (for 
his life was one of misfortune,) are to be ascribed to this in- 
voluntary deed of blood, it is not for me to say. Though I 
can say, ''I have been young, and now am old, yet never saw 
I the man,-'' whose hands were stained with blood, who pros- 
pered, (or if jjrosperity attended him,) icho went to his grave 
in jjeace. 

This single scene is enough to show, that fiends, not men, 
were too often engaged in the prosecution of the partisan 
war. 

The desolation of the country was equal to what fancy may 
well depict, as an accompaniment of such a tiendlike scene as 
that which I have just related. 

The march of the British army was marked by wasting and 
ruin. "When Greene passed, with his ragged Americans, for- 
bearance and pity for the people marked- his course; plunder, 
cruelty and oppression, he sternly forbade. When a battalion 
of Tarlton's command, in his attempt to strike Morgan, as he 
supposed, in the neighborhood of Ninety-Six, (as is stated in a 
note to No. 5,) encamped at William O'Neall's, everything was 
seized and treated as if it all belonged to them, the fences 
were burned to make camp-tires, the cattle were butchered for 
beef, the officers billeted themselves on the unpretending Qua- 
ker family, without money and without price. When a part of 
Greene's army, on their retreat from Ninety-Six, passed the mill, 
everything needed was paid for, and perfect order prevailed. 

The marauding scouts entered every dwelling, and carried off 
everything which suited them, bedding, clothes, provisions; 
often were families left without food or raiment; sometimes the 
houses were burned, and women and children turned out with 
no covering, save the forest and the heavens. 

These scenes passed before the eyes of the youthful Quaker, 
Hugh O'Neall; his brave ancestral blood often boiled almost 
over at the wrongs and oppression which he witnessed, and to 
which he was called to submit. Yet the teachings of his par- 
ents, peace, jieace, kept him quiet, and day after day h6 was 
seen at the mill, providing for his father's family and the 
neighborhood's necessities, as well as he could, until, at last, 



284 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

jjeace, smiling j^^ace, and glorious liberty came to bless South 
Carolina with law and order. 

Hugh O'Neall attended the mill, drove his father's wagon, 
or labored in the farm until his fathers death in 1789. He 
and his elder brother Abijah were the executors of his father's 
will, and upon them devolved the care of a large real estate, 
their mother and a family of young boys. The elder brother, 
Abijah, being married, much of the burden devolved on Hugh. 
For three years he devoted himself untiringly to the discharge 
of his duties. Many of his adventures in wagoning between 
Newberry and Charleston, and in Charleston, would, if I had 
time or space, be interesting. I may state two: He and his 
brother Abijah were in Charleston when the old State House, 
now the Court House, corner of Broad and Meeting streets, and 
all that section of Charleston was burned. They had one or 
more wagons, and were employed to haul goods from the burn- 
ing district to places of safety. Having made several success- 
ful trips, as Hugh was returning, and about to pass again into 
the circle of fire, his leader's bridle was seized by a policeman 
on duty, and he was told: The houses near you will be in- 
stantly blown up ! He turned his team, quick as thought, in 
the crowded streets, and was soon in the wagon yard and 
safety. Neither the persuasions of his brother nor the tempt- 
ing wages could again tempt him into such peril. 

Roads, bridges and ferries were then, not as they are now, 
(though now bad enough.) Mud holes, crazy bridges, streams 
in flood, and badly managed ferries had to be encountered. 
He and his brother-in-law, Ford, were on their return from 
Charleston, with separate teams. Ford was in front. He struck 
the Four Hole swamp, covered with water. When he reached 
the bridge it was floating; he thought he could, however, pass 
it, and with the bold, adventurous spiiit of a backwoodsman, 
well tried in the revolution, he made the attempt. The plank 
gave way under hi^ horses, and into the stream they went. 
To cut them (except one) loose, and to swim them out was but 
a few minutes' work for him and his equally daring compan- 
ion, Hugh. One horse, the old and favorite leader, was pa- 
tiently lying across the sleepers of the bridge; to relieve him 
it was necessary to roll him over into the water. This was 
done by seizing his legs and literally turning him over. As 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 285 

he went, with one strong movement of his hind leg he threw 
Hugh twenty feet, into ten-feet water. This was, howevei", no 
serious matter, for he and the horse were soon on terra firma. 

During this period, and for years after, tobacco rolling was 
a common mode of carrying tobacco from the vipper country 
to Charleston. A tobacco hogshead was rimmed, so as to keep 
the bulge from the ground; a cross piece was made fast to 
each end; in them were inserted wooden gudgeons, which 
worked into a square frame, embracing within it the whole 
hogshead. To this were fixed single-trees and a tongue, and, 
thus prepared, the owner mounted on one of two horses geared 
to it, and leading the other, with his fodder and corn stowed 
between the frame and hogshead, moved on a free and inde- 
pendent roller to Charleston; and there leaving his hogshead, 
with his money for it, or a tobacco certificate, he returned, the 
sauciest mortal ever seen. Some rollers from Long Cane, Ab- 
beville, and, therefore, called Long Canaans, met with an Edge- 
field man, (Clarke Spraggins,) and a companion, between 
Orangeburg and the Four Holes, attacked them first with 
words, and then were about to try blows. Numbers prevailed, 
and Spraggins, (though one of Butler's old soldiers,) and his 
companion had to fly. In his flight Spraggins sprang off his 
horse, picked up a lightwood knot, and knocked down sense- 
less the foremost pursuer. The rest halted, and supposing their 
companion slam, desired to know who and whence was the 
slayer. Spraggins swore he was from '■'■killman,"' and was go- 
ing to '■'■killmore.^'' 

In 1792 Hugh O'Neall married Anne Kelly, the third and 
youngest daughter of Samuel and Hannah Kelly, of Spring- 
field, Newberry. He settled about a mile below the mill which, 
by his father's will, was devised to him. Subsequently he 
made an exchange with his brother, William, and fixed his res- 
idence in about two hundred yards of the mill, on a hill north- 
east of the same. From 1792 to 1800 he attended to his own 
mill, and by untiring industry created the means to rebuild 
it and to lay up a sum sufficient to embark in the mercantile 
business with Capt. Daniel Parkins. During this period was 
the great Yazoo freshet, in January, 1796, which has never 
been equalled or surpassed, unless the disastrous freshet of 
August, 1852, did so. Often has Hugh O'Neall described that 



280 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

freshet to the writer. In two respects it resembled the freshet 
of August, 1852: it was a freshet upon a freshet, and, like the 
latter, it spread ruin everywhere. Mills, dams and bridges went 
before it. Compte's bridge across Broad river, three miles above 
Columbia, just finished in apparently the most secure way, went. 
It is said the owner, a Frenchman, was upon the bridge, look- 
ing at the raging torrent, and impiously exclaimed: "Aha, God 
Almighty does tink we build bridges out of corn-stalks." 
Scarcely were the words uttered, until the cracking timbers 
gave notice that its end was at hand. With difficulty the owner 
reached the land. Hampton's bridges across the Savannah at 
Augusta and Saluda, were swept away. Fortunately, O'Neall's 
mill, which was just rebuilt, with its dam, escaped uninjured. 
Would that some certain memorial of that flood had been pre- 
served. AVe would then compare it with that of '52, and thus 
learn a lesson of wisdom. 

During this same period, or possibly in '98, certainly before 
April, he and Mercer Babb visited the quarry of Georgia burr 
millstones, in Burke county. He did not contract for a pair, 
but Mercer Babb bought, and started in his mills, now Men- 
denball's, the first pair of burr stones ever run in the district. 
They were there used for many years, and when Dr. Menden- 
hall, in '27, started his merchant mills at the same place, the 
old Georgia burrs were refitted and again started, to manufac- 
ture flour. 

Hugh O'Neall always affirmed that, with a good pair of Cloud's 
creek stones, he could make as good, if not better, flour than 
could be made with the best pair of burr stones. 

On this trip he and his friend encountered a flood in the 
Savannah and Saluda rivers, then considered a great freshet, 
but not to compare with the subsequent one of '9G. 

In 1800 Hugh O'Neal! embarked in the mercantile business, 
as the partner of Daniel Parkins, and most successfully pur- 
sued it until the death of the latter, October, 1802. It may 
be well here to pause and look over the statistics of the coun- 
try at that time, (if I can iise such a word in reference to the 
means and commerce of that period.) Cotton, in 1800, was 
beginning to be cultivated for market. In 1801 Hugh O'Neall 
started a water cotton-gin, made by William Bai-ret. The plates 
for the saws were made at William Coate's shop. No machine 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 287 

over ran with greater power or more success, although the first 
person, Joseph Wright, who attended to it had his hand torn 
all to pieces by the saws. Remittances were then made to 
Charleston io specie. Dollars were carefully packed in a box 
and put on board a wagon owned and driven by a careful, re- 
sponsible man. The writer recollects aiding in counting, at 
Capt. Parkins', a large amount of silver, to be sent by Isaac 
Mills' wagon. Up to the year 1800 the upper country, and 
particularly Newberry, furnished flour, bacon, beef, cattle, but- 
ter, beeswax, skins, (raccoon, fox, rabbit, mink and muskrat,) 
for the Charleston market. In the same time boxes of screw- 
augers, invented and made by Benj. Evans, (at the place now 
owned by John G. Davenport,) and, after Evans' removal to 
Ohio, made by Joseph Smith and John Edmunson, were fre- 
({uently sent. Cotton began to be sent by the load, in round 
bales, about the year 1801. After the Quakers left Bush river, 
(say after 1806,) very little flour, butter, beeswax or skins 
found their way to Charleston. I often recur to that period 
— when Newberry was covered with small farms, when each 
homestead furnished pretty much the means of food and rai- 
ment — and fancy that the people were then happier than they 
ever have been since. 

A recollection of an incident in the beginning of 1802, I may, 
perhaps, be pardoned in repeating. A very large poplar tree 
lay at the mouth of the first branch, north of Hugh O'Neall's 
mills. Bush river was in flood; the water had entirely sub- 
merged the mill-dam. Hugh O'Neall, William Barret and Levi 
Hilburn concluded that, with a common batteau and a rope, 
after the tree was cut loose, they could tow it down to the 
sawmill of the latter, opposite to O'Neall's mill. Accordingly, 
they succeeded in getting the tree loose, and in towing it, until 
they neared the dam. Then the force ot the water carried 
them beyond their point; the tree, batteau and all passed into 
an eddy below the sawmill. To get it above the sawmill was 
the object. Hilburn was persuade 1 to get out on the log, and 
with a pole force it along; the other two were to manage the 
batteau and tow. Having accomplished the most difficult part 
of the ascent, and reached a p^iut where the water was d- ^p, 
but comparatively still, the boa'aii -a were continually c^ ing 
out. ''Pole, Levi; pole, Levi I "' He, straining every ni.iscle, 



288 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

made a mislick with his pole, and fell into Avater more than 
ten feet deep. Rising, he essayed to mount the log, but, it 
rolling under his hands, he received another ducking. At last 
he succeeded in mounting astride. Then again he was called 
on to "pole," bvit he swore one of his biggest oaths, (and any- 
body who ever heard Levi Hilburn swear must know it could 
hardly be excelled,) "that he would pole no more." Just then 
Barret, looking around at him, dripping, and with his usually 
large lips much sw^elled, said to Hugh O'Neall, "Did you ever 
see any one look so much like Tom Lindsey's Nero?" The 
name thus given adhered to him ever after. The poplar tree 
thus obtained was sawed into })lanks, and out of them were 
made the coffins for the two sons, the wife of, and Capt. Daniel 
Parkins himself, who died in the great epidemic of 1802, a3 
detailed in No. 11. 

In February, 1803, was the greatest snow ever seen in this 
State, unless it may be that that of 1851 equalled it. 

In 1804 Hugh O'Neall, alone, began the mercantile busi- 
ness, and continued it until 180U. Until the close of 1800 it 
was manifest that he was doing an excellent business. But 
the two dread enemies of a mere merchant, universal credit 
and the use of intoxicating drink by the merchant and his 
customers, were sapping the foundation of prosperity, reason 
and happiness. 

I may be permitted here to say, that then, for many years 
previous, and for the fourth of a century since, every merchant 
sold, with groceries and dry goods, intoxicating drink by the 
"small." Every one drank more or less; the morning bitter;^,. 
the dinner dram, and the evening night cap were universal. 
Rum, (Jamaica, West India and New England,) was then almost 
entirely sold and drunk in stores. Whiskey belonged to the 
distilleries. 

Often has the writer stood behind the counter until midnight, 
waiting on the maudlin talk and drinks of half-pint customers. 
He hated the business then, and he pronounces it noiL\ vot fit to 
he pursued by any decent man, or boy. The use of intoxicat- 
ing drink grew upon Hugh O'Neall, until, like Nebuchadnez- 
zer, the judgment of God was upon him, and he was deprived 
of that which distinguishes a man from a brute, his reason. 
This sad result, however, was not the work of an instant; his 



ANXALS OF NEWBEERY. 289 

babit of drink bad made biin negligent of bis business and 
over-coDfident in cotton speculation. When tbe embargo of 
1808 came upon tbe country be bad in store witb tbe Messrs. 
Bulow more tban two bundred bales of cotton. He was largely 
their debtor, and he had authorized them to sell as they saw 
fit. Frequent attacks of mania a-portu foreshadowed the event. 
His son, a stripling of sixteen in 1801), ventured to ask him 
to abandon the cup. He made the attempt, but too late. Mad- 
ness had already laid its iron hand upon him. He was a maniac. 
His cotton was sold at an immense sacrifice, bis debtors were, 
mauy of them, insolvent, bis creditors pressed their debts into 
judgments, his property was sold, and his wife and children 
turned out to shift for themselves. 

Often has the writer seen his honored father caged like a 
wild beast; often has he seen him when it w^as dangerous for 
any one to approach him. For four years this was his unfor- 
tunate state. 

Reader, stop and think ! Has not tbe writer cause to hate 
the traffic in intoxicating drink? Ought bo not to pursue it 
to its destruction? May not his case be yours? May not you 
suffer as he has done? Let me entreat you — let tbe truth 
teach you — let others' sorrows learn you wisdom. 

In 1813, July, Hugh O'Neall was restored to his reason, 
and, like Nebuchadnezzer, he gave God all the glory ! Not a 
shade was left upon his mind; bis memory, wonderful as it 
was before his insanity, was just as perfect after bis recovery. 
He became a Friend in reality, as be had been raised in pi'ofes- 
sion. No humbler, better Christian ever stood before his Master. 

He set himself most diligently about repairing tbe wreck of 
bis fortune. He gathered up much that was apparently lost, 
and paid many of his creditors, those v/bo most needed it. He 
made three trips to Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. 
His descriptions of the countries which ho visited, the people 
whom he saw, and especially bis accounts of bis visits to bis 
relations, were most felicitous. 

In 1815 he determined never to drink intoxicating drink, and 
to his death, in 1848, he faithfully maintained his resolution. 
In August, 1820, he became a member of his son's family, and 
there, as a father, he remained until his Father called him 
home. 

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290 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

He never desired or sought office. He was a Commissioner 
of Public Buildings from '99 for many years; he was a Com- 
missioner of Free Schools from 1822 until he declined to serve 
longer. 

In the unfortunate political schism, called Nullification, he 
was against it, and openly maintaiaed the principles of the 
"Union party. Like the venerable mother of Senator Butler, 
he could have said, as she did wheu secession was the prevail- 
ing sentiment of South Carolina, "I have seen two wars, and 
I never want to see aaother." 

Hugh O'Neall's family consisted of one son, John Belton, four 
daughters, Abigail, (now Mrs. Caldwell,) Rebecca, who died in 
1854, Hannah, who died in 1815, and Sarah Ford O'Neall. 

Hugh O'Neall was not only gifted with a most superhuman 
memory, but he also possessed an excellent judgment and a 
<5lear and easy elocution. He was one of the kindest and most 
benevolent of men, and yet his sense of justice and right was 
such, he never, (after his recovery,) suffered his feelings to lead 
Jaim astray. 

In person, he was remarkable for a strong, vigorous, com- 
pact frame. He was five feet ten inches high; his head was 
a fine one; his hair receded on each side, leaving a high, in- 
tellectual forehead fully developed; his hair was thin, soft and 
silky, and perfectly black in his manhood; in age it was sprin- 
kled with gray, still, however, leaving the black predominant. 
His eyes were blue, his nose long and Roman, his mouth was 
full and well formed. He died Wednesday, 18th October, 1848, 
about 2 P. M., having lived two months and eight days beyond 
eighty-oae. He left surviving him his wife Anne, who on Fri- 
day, the 5th October, 1850, at ten minutes after 10 A. M., fol- 
lowed him to the silent house, having lived two months, want- 
ing seven days, beyond eighty-three. His son and two daugh- 
ters still remain. 

Reader, my work is ended. The annals, historical, biograph- 
ical and anecdotical, of Newberry, are closed. They have been 
to me both labor and pleasure. May they be the means of 
honor and o-ood to mv native district. 



A dail: December day recalls the past, and tempts the soli- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 291 

tary to give the remembrances which stir within him, to his 
younger countrymen. 

In the progress of the war of 1812 everything became ex- 
ceedingly high. When I use the word '"high," I would not 
have you suppose that I use it in the sense of "tall," but in 
the meaning of "dear," or "costly." 

Flour was a scarce article, selling readily at ten dollars to 
twelve dollars per baixel. The ladies at *hat time made cakes 
thin, and rather a holiday affair. Such a thing as using a whole 
barrel of flour in pound-cakes would have been regarded then 
as an astounding act of extravagance. I remember well, in 
1816, hearing an old lady, who was seated at a table soon to 
be graced by a bridal party, as she was treated to a bit of 
pound-cake, say to the lady of the house, "It is mighty good, 
but mighty costly, though." 

Near forty years of peace and prosperity have seen what 
was then a straggling village become a town, along whose west- 
ern limbs daily speeds the iron horse, fed upon wood and fire, 
and drinking nauglit hut cold ivater, bearing by his superhu- 
man strength the trade and travel of our backwoods, and out- 
stripping the wind in his flight from point to point, and have 
made us forget the use and wholesome economy of our ances- 
tral homes. 

As illustrative of the past, I recall an incident which occa- 
sioned much meiTiment when it occurred. 

It will be remembered by those who know anything of the 
history of South Carolina, (though I confess there are few who 
can penetrate the dark veil of the lack of information which 
hangs over her history,) that General Joseph Alston was the 
Governor from December, 1812, to December, 1814, two dark 
years of the war. 

In that time it frequently became necessary for orders to 
be borne to the militia. The post, now commonly called the 
mail, came then slowly dragging itself along on horseback. 
The great AVestern mail passed then once a week on horseback, 
under the riding of the late Mr. Waddell, of Greenville. The 
orders of the Commander-in-Chief could not be allowed thus 
tardily to travel. He sometimes sent an aid. The person who 
acted on the occasion to which I am about to allude was a 
Dominie Sampson sort of man, though not at all of his size. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



nor of his ungainly deportment. He was, or rather had been, 
however, a schoolmaster, private tutor — tutor ji7'o tempore ia 
college, and thus his fitness for private secretary and aid, or 
anything else in the shape of man of Inisiness for the Governor 
is shown. 

General Samuel Mays, of Edgefield, then commanded the 
first brigade. 'For some cause (perhaps in the absence of the 
Major General, Butler,) he was waited upon by the gentleman 
whom I have described. The General was not at home when 
he called. His kind, excellent lady invited him to stay until 
he returned. In the mean time, (as the family dinner had 
passed,) a dinner was provided for the traveler. Flour had of 
course to be put ia requisition for the Governor's aid, but, guided 
by the precious character of the article, the cook made the bis- 
cuits small, very small. Dinner was announced. The hungry 
guest was paying his respects to the real good Carolina dinner, 
over which the General's lady, with hospitable intent, presided. 
A little black boy waited; his was the duty to hand the bis- 
cuits. The famished aid devoured a biscuit at a mouthful, and 
called to the waiter: "Biscuit, boy !'' The little negro could 
not bear such wholesale destruction of his mistress' good things, 
and addressed himself at once to her. "La, Misses," said he, 
"he has had six already; shall I give him another?" 



THE LAST QUAKER MEETING. 

The cold, gray sunshine of an October Sabbath morning, pre- 
ceding the bright gorgeousness of the Indian summer, seemed 
appropriate to the invitation I received to accompany a dear 
lady friend to the last meeting which has been held by her 
sect at the Quaker church at Bush river, Newberry district. 
South Carolina. Two Friends, an aged lady and gentleman, 
had come from a distant land on a visit to the few who remained 
of their persuasion, and. to look upon the graves of all who had 
so peacefully departed to the blessed home of rest. The ven- 
erable Hugh O'Neall, whose striking biography appeared last 
week in the local district newspaper, and his aged companion 
and youngest living daughter, were all who remained of that 
people who once, with the olive branch of peace and industry 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 293 

in their hands, made the rich lands of that section of the dis- 
trict smile with their examples of thrift and economy. As we 
rode gently along, I had ample leisure to reflect upon the many 
social mutations which have already swept over our land in her 
brief period of national infancy. We overtook the good old 
Father O'Neall a short distance from the church, mounted on 
hif^ drab-colored pony, and looking like Old Mortality striving 
to defy time — that silently moving power which carries eveiy- 
thing into nothing. "Whosoever looked on that good man, in 
the over ripe maturity of a virtuous old age, loved him. With 
a cheerful word and a heart illumining smile for all, he was 
the practical example of purity and elevated virtue. Rest there, 
old fathers, in thy quiet graves. The roaring winds of this 
wintry storm disturb not thy slumbers to-night, for thou wast 
with peace, beloved by God and by man. 

The plain Quaker carriage of the visiting friends stood be- 
fore the churchyard, and they were walking in silent medita- 
tion amongst the carefully heaped-up mounds which pious de- 
votion had preserved from common disorder and neglect. It 
was a picture which, since then, has dwelt with me, and one 
which I have often thought I would pen-paint, that others 
might receive the satisfaction which the touching spectacle af- 
forded. I was a boy then — ambitious of the future — with the 
world spi-ead out before me; and since, its trials, its disap- 
pointments, its vexing cares have beset my path. But that day, 
and its impressions, have dwelt in the chambers of memory — 
pure as a strain of music floating over distant waters. The 
gray old church, with its plain exterior, the singular garb of 
the pious Friends, the neatness of all the mounds — even those 
of nearly a hundred years — the bright colors of the dying 
leaves, already tinted by the autumnal frosts, were grouped into 
the picture, whilst the now mellow sunshine, reflected from 
the blue sky, draped it with beauty beyond the achievement 
of the pencil of art. The glory of that day's sunshine was 
God's smile upon the remnant of his children of peace. Si- 
lently, and one by one, as messengers from another land, they 
entered the church, and I felt at first that my presence might 
be an intrusion, where all was love and holiness; but the you.ng- 
est, my lady friend, quietly bade me enter. We sat long and 
in meditation. Patience and meekness and long-serving and 



294 ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. 

humility were thus silentl}- taught to the hundreds who lay 
around in the peaceful slumbers of death; and the reflections 
which arose from the shrines of the past told the history of 
bygone years more eloquently than living words could have 
done. A cardinal red bird came and twittered among the del- 
icate boughs of a red- fruited tree which grew over a grave, 
and its scarlet garb and shrill electric notes frequently, and 
for a long time repeated, were strangely contrasted with the 
quiet scene around. 

Note after note he poured forth from his full-throated 
beak, whilst his swelling crest, and gay out-stretched wing, 
and voice of song, plainly told that he too was praising 
God in the bird recitative of nature's music. The aged 
mother arose, and the prose-voice of song in the mellow 
cadences, uttered in unison with the feelings of her heart, 
spoke of those who had passed away to light and peaceful 
glory in heaven. Whilst her words of love were poui-ed 
out to the living and the dead, I fancied that one from 
another world, and from a long past age, was speaking. 
The old gentleman, with a clear, singing, mellow tone, 
then asked the empty seats and silent walls where those 
were who once peopled them. He bewailed the desolation 
in Israel, whose glory had departed, and whose land was 
peopled with strangers to the faith of their fathers. To 
me his words were as the lamentations of a second Jere- 
miah, saying: ^'Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our 
house to aliens.''' Again a brief silence: then the stillness 
is broken, and the voice of Hugh O'Neall, tremulous with 
emotion, tells the sad story of that faith by which he 
lived, and which, since then, made his dying bed a path- 
way of blessed ease, going home to God. The red mounds 
told the fates of many — over the blue mountains, beyond 
the broad Ohio — others had fixed their homes in the wil- 
derness, nearer to the setting sun. He and his alono re- 
mained — here he had lived, and here he would lay down 
to rest in the grave. He said, still the seed of the faith 
was alive, for '■'•Thou, O Lord, remainest forever; thy throne 
from generation to generation. Turn thou us unto thee, O 
Lord, and we shall he turned; reneiv our days as of old." 
I believe these words of eloquent lamentation from my 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 295 

aged friend were the last uttered in that silent house of 
God. Angels led out that little band of the true and 
faithful, and the sacred doors were closed forever. As we 
departed, the red-bird glanced through the tree-tops and 
chirped us a good-bye. 

Death has since claimed all of those beloved Quakers 
save one, and may she long be spared to reflect the virtues 
of her heart in that social sphere in which she is a blessed 
and blessing visitant. 



290 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



APPENDIX. 



GREENVILLE AND COLUMBIA RAILROAD. 

The damages sustained by this road from the late fiesbet, though 
very serious, are by no means as great as they were at tirst supposed 
to be. The principal injuries are below Alston. These have been 
carefully examined by competent agents of the company, and esti- 
mates have been made at the i^rlce of new work. None of the timbers 
have been washed away; it will only be necessary to replace them. 
The actual cost of the repairs will, therefore, fall below the estimates. 
An adequate for'„'e is now being organized, and the work of repair 
will be pushed forward to completion as rapidly as possible. P>()m 
Alston to the terminus at Cokesbury, the injuries are comparatively 
trifling. We are assured by Captain W. H. Griffin, the able first as- 
sistant engineer, that this portion of the road will be in running order 
in a week or, at most, ten days. Over one hundred hands, under a 
well qualified supervisor, are engaged on this section. As soon as 
the repairs below Broad river are finished, which will be done in four 
or five weeks, the connection between the two sections will be estab- 
lished by means of boats across the river, until the bridge is rebuilt, 
so that travel and transportation will be but little retarded, notwith- 
standing the exaggerated reports jnit into active circulation in a cer- 
tain quarter, and the bold, impotent attempt to depreciate the value 
of the company's stock by a sham sale. 

Columbia. September 4, 1S52. 
To the Stockholders of the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road Com- 

pamj : 

The late freshet of the 2Sth, ilOth and 30- 'i ultimo, has produced a 
heavy loss to the c< mpany ; but that is coiuparalively nothing to the 
loss which the company, the conmninity, and his family have suf- 
fered in the death of William Spencer Brown, chief engineer. 

In attempting, on the 30th, to descend the river from Alston, in 
company with McCollum, Jefferson, and the son of Mr. McCollum, 
in a small batteau, it \vas overturned, and he, with jNIr. McCollum's 
son, was drowned. 

This sad event has caused me more sufTering and sorrow than any- 
thing which has occurred. INIr. Brown was endeared to me by a long 
and intimate association, and felt to me more like a son than a mere 
subordinate officer. No purer man or better officer ever lived. No 
doubt, for wise, but inscrutable reasons, God has taken him to him- 
self ! It is our duty to submit ! 

The loss to the corapauj' is a heavy one, but not to be compared with 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 297 

what rumor has fixed. It is confidently believed that from thirty to 
fifty thousand dollars will cover the entire damage. This is the opin- 
ion of an experienced mechanic. 

The road from Crim's creek to Newberry, and thence to Little 
river, is uninjured. This is a distance of thirty-five miles. A slight 
injury to the trestle at Little river occurred. This will be remedied 
in a day or two. The Irestling along the valley of the Saluda is 
thrown down. It can be restored in two weeks. The Saluda bridge 
is very little injured. Thence to Barmore's, in Abbeville, thirty miles 
is in running order. The road is uninjured thence to Anderson, and 
to the north side of Saluda. Between Saluda and Greenville, three 
culverts have been blown up; the loss may be four thousand dollars. 

Beginning at Crim's creek, the serious injury commences. That 
bridge and the trestle are overturned. The carpenter on the road 
states that all the timber is there, and that he can replace everything 
in two weeks. Four spans of the Broad river bridge are gone. One 
pier is broke down to low water mark. The parts of the bridge car- 
ried off are entire in Bookman's and llieves' plantation, about ten or 
twelve miles below. They will be taken to pieces and brought back. 
Little loss of timber, it is apprehended, will take place. Had not 
Eichelberger's gin-house floated down against the bridge, it would 
have withstood the flood. It is proposed to raise the bridge three feet 
higher than at present. Raising and repairing it will hardly cost 
$7,000, and may not cost $5,000. From Alston to and inclusive of 
Smith's branch, within three miles of Columbia, the trestles are gen- 
erally damaged, and in some places down. In some instances the 
timber is washed away. The banks are generally uninjured. The 
track is misplaced in some instances. The work of restoration com- 
mences to-day, under the energetic supervision of H. T. Peake, aided 
by man^' experienced mechanics. 

The road from Columbia to Alston was carefully examined by 
Messrs. H. T. Peake and Z. Butler, and the following are their esti- 
mates of the sums necessary to repair tne damages of the flood : 

Smith's branch trestle and bank ■? 2,000 

Crane creek 250 

Trestle each side of P'rost's mill 1,300 

Slate Stone branch 200 

Through Bookter's 4,000 

Frost's upper plantation 1,450 

Fiom Frost's to Littleton 0,000 _ 

Littleton to trestle below Alston 1,000 

Trestle at Alston 1,500 

$17,700 

It is hoped that in six weeks we may be in full motion. It is in- 
tended to secure the track against all such accidents for the future. 



298 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

though such :i freshet will probably not occur again in the next half 
century. The Yazoo freshet occurred fifty -six years rgo. 

The mails will leave Newberry, daily, on and after Wednesday, at 
half-past 9 A. M., and reach Hope Station at 11; thence they will be 
carried in stages by Mr. Epting to Columbia, at 6 P. M. The mails 
will leave Columbia, daily, on and after Tliursday, at (j A. M., and 
reach Hope Station at 8 P. M. They will leave instantly, and ar- 
rive at New berry half-past 4 P. M. 

JOHN EELTON O'NEALL, 
President G. and C. Bail Road Co. 

THE DISASTERS OF THE FRESHET. 

ASHEVILLE, N. C, September 2. 

We find the following account of the flood in the Asbeville Neivn 
of the 21 instant: 

Never, in the memory of that wise individual, "the oldest inhab- 
itant," were these mountains so deluged with water as they were 
la.st week. F'riday of last week will long be remembered as the 
rainy day. From ten o'clock Thursday evening until some time 
Friday night, without one moment's cessation. As was anticipated, 
the streams were filled to overflowing. French Broad was higher on 
Saturday than it was in many years l)efore — exceeding largely the 
great flood two years ago. Even the sweet Swannanoa got "high," 
and played some wild pranks— among other things carrying off the 
bridge at Mrs. Patton's, two miles from here. All the bridges, so far 
as heard from, are gone: the bridge at Captain Wiley .Tones', Esquire 
Smith's, the one at Colonel Garmou's, Alexander's, Chunn's, Warm 
Springs, and all the smaller bridges in the country are either gone 
entire or greatly damaged. Mr. Smith, we are glad to see, is taking 
measures, with his usual promptness, to rebuild his bridge. The loss 
of this bridge will be a more serious inconvenience than any of the 
others, as it is on one of tlie most public roads in the country — the 
road leading to the M'estern counties. 

The crops in the bottoms along the rivers and creeks are considei" 
ably damaged. Many persons will be heavy sitlerers. No idea can 
be had of the extent of the injury, as mail operations are entirely 
closed, not having had, up to the time of writing this articie, (Tues- 
day morning,) a mail from any direction in foui or five days. No 
doubt the mills and bridges in every direction have been swept away 
or greatly injured. 

Greenville, September 2. 
There never was before, says the Southern Patriot of the 2d instant, 
since the settlement of the country, such a freshet as we had last 
week in Greenville district. The water courses were several feet 
higher than they were ever known to be before. All the bridges, 
and a great number of mills, have been swept away. The corn 



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Oil tlie low grounds is destroyed, or most seriously injured. In sev- 
eral places tlie etnbankiuents of our rail road have been destroyed, 
and several of the culverts carried off, or entirely demolished. The 
cotton factory and paper mill of Mr. McBee, and the paper mill ot 
the Greenville Manufacturing Company, liave been greatly damaged. 
We have not heard from the other factories in our district. All com- 
munication has been cut off with the surrounding country by the 
loss of bridges, and the difficulty of fording 'he creeks and rivers. 
The Reedy Falls, in the village of Greenville, were quite an object of 
attraction on Saturday. They were Niagara in miniature, and our 
citizens and the visitors, men, women and children, turned out en 
masne to witness the grand spectacle presented by the raging and 
foaming waters dashing over the falls and down the precipice. 

Every day the n)ost distressing accounts are brought to us of the 
injury done by the late flood of rains. Lester and Kilgore's wool 
factory, saw-mill, blackpmith shops, are all carr'ed oil', their office 
turr.ed uftside down, and in the cotton factory everything covered 
with mud. Their loss is estimated at $2,000. 

The factory of W. Bates & Co. very seriously injured. The factory 
of John Weaver, Esq., injured considerably. The Greenville Manu- 
facturing Company have sustained several thousand dollars damage. 
The njills throughout the country have been swept away. 

THE SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL ROAD. 

We are indebted, says the Carolinian, to Mr. Bollin, the agent at 
this place, for the following letter from the energetic president of the 
Souih Carolina Rail Road Company. Mr. B. also informs us that 
the letter mails will reach here this morning, and the newspaper 
mails to-night. The telegraphic line, it is thought, will be in opera- 
tion to Charleston to-day. 

We regret to learn that it is true that a portion of the trestle work 
of the Camden Branch is swept awa^', and therefore it is uncertain 
when communication will be re-established en that line. 

Road, September 2. 

The damage at the Congaree is pretty bad, but we are making the 
most and best of it. But for the draw, we could soon fix up a tem- 
porary means of conveying goods over. That will throw us back. 
We will make that, and the whole bridge at Charleston, while the 
piles are driving, and not one hour or a single effort lost or left 
untried to get the work done in the least time possible; but a good 
deal of delay, with all we can do, must occur. 

We will send passengers over on Monday. It would be unsafe to 
attempt it before. You will be particularly instructed before. 

I have no/V a full view of all the damage everywhere, and my 
plans and arrangements are all made to remedy them. 

There is nothing now but the work to be done, and that we will 
do. Yours, H. W. CONNER. 



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We flud the following informati'Mi touching what is doing on the 
Hamburg end of the road in the Cluirleston *S^r//idard of Thursday: 

The communication for passengers and mails with Augusta and 
beyond is now perfect. The trains from Hamburg arrived to-day, 
with the western mails, and a large number of passengers, at twenty- 
five minutes past one, being only thirty minutes behind the usual 
time. 

The rail road at Hamburg will be repaired, and ready for the 
engines and cars by to-morrow night, which will run on to the depot 
there, after to-morrow, as usual. 

It is expected, also, that by Monday next freight will be passed 
over to the Georgia Rail Road depot and to Augusta with prompti- 
tude and despatch. 

Hambukg, September 2. 

We are indebted to the Hamburg Republican for an extra dated 2d 
instant, from which we ma<e the following extracts: 

On Saturday morning it was discovered that the river was rapidly 
rising, which continued throughout the day. At sunset it was out 
of its banks and still rising. At this time the water from below had 
backed up into town. Soon after nightfall the avalanche from above 
came rushing down upon us with such fearful rapidity that, within 
less than an hour the whole town was completely inundated, and 
the water rising at the rate of at least three feet to the hour. By ten 
o'clock the floors of stores, shops and residences were from two to 
seven feet under water. 

The scene now presented beggars all description. The night was 
calm and clear, fortunately, and the moon shone equal to day. But 
for this fortunate circumstance the disastrous effects of the flood 
must have been much greater, and probably many lives lost. A 
number of small boats were immediately brought into requisition by 
the citizens, and those who manned them seemed to vie with each 
other in their zeal and activity to convey families in the more ex- 
posed part of the town ashore. The cries of women and children for 
help could be heard in all directions. JNIauy persons, we learn, were 
taken from the roofs of their houses. No means of escape were left 
but through the medium of the boats, which were continually run- 
ning and conveying persons ashore during the entire night, and 
throughout the day on Sunday. It was with great ditHculty and 
danger that many were rescued from a watery grave. Only one life 
was lost, that of Mr. Thomas Rossiter, a worthy young man, in the 
employ of Mr. George Robinson. 

About noon Sunday the water began slowly to recede, and by 
night had fallen some five or six inches, and by Monday morning 
about two feet, when it commenced running off very rapidly. 

As soon as the opinion became prevalent that we should have an 
overflow, our merchants commenced to remove their stocks of goods 
to places of security'. This was kept up so long as drays could run 



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the streets. Su';h goods as were not removed were placed upon the 
counters, shelves, &c., as was supposed, entirely out of danger. 
Ever^' one seemed to feel the utmost confidence in his entire 
security. 

It is impossible to give the losses sustained by each of our eitizeus. 
Of all our business houses, Messrs. Richardson & McDonald, and 
Wright, Nichols & Co. alone escaped. In some instances the floors 
of the second stories were torn up, and goods raised from the first 
story after the water became six feet deep. 

To give an idea to those familiar with the town, we will state, the 
only buildings that the water did not reach the first floor of, was the 
rail road (new) depot, Town Hall, Coleman's warehouse, Josiah Sib- 
ley's store, and the residences of J. W. Stokes ana H. A. Kenrick. 
Depth of water at the Bank of Hamburg, about twenty inches; 
Hodges & Smith's store, seven and one-half feet; John Usher's store, 
six feet; B. S. Dunbar's store, six feet; Charles Hammond's store, 
(unoccupied,) eight feet. 

A number of families suffered severely iti the loss of furniture, 
bedding, &c., some being compelled to leave without an effort to 
secure anything. The water coming with such rapidity forced the 
doors and windows, and everything floated out. Tliere is scarcely a 
citizen but what has lost out-houses, stal)les, garden fences, gardens, 
&c. We believe there were no dwellings or business houses washed 
away. 

Our island and river planters suffer severely. Their entire corn 
crop is gone, and they are heavy losers in stock, fencing, &c. 

From the ConsUtutionallst and Itepublic of Tuesday we copy the 
following further intelligence in relation to the late freshet at 
Augusta: 

Yesterday exhibited a busy scene on Broad street. Turn your eyes 
what direction you would, it looked lively, and, as far as the eye 
could reach, the box pump handle, with from two to four sturdy 
pumpers, was seen busily employed. To-day all the cellars in the 
city will, no doubt, be relieved of water, and in another day the de- 
posits will be removed. A number of cellars, we have no doubt, after 
the latter operation is gone through with, will be some foot or a half 
deeper than previous to the freshet. 

Now that the waters have subsided, we can form a more accurate 
judgment of the injuries sustained by the freshet. It Is nothing like 
as great as the loss sustained by the freshet of 1840. The city itself 
is the largest sufferer, and we have heard it estimated, by those who 
ought to know, that it will cost about $50,000 to repair damages. 
The streets are much cut up, but a large force has been engaged to 
put them in order, and when finished they will be in better condi- 
tion than previous to the freshet, for the deposit by this freshet has 
been principally sand and gravel, while by former freshets it was 
mostly alluvial. 

The loss of our merchants is comparatively trifling, as most of them 



302 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

had removed the principal part of their floods from their cellars, and 
but few stores were damaged above the first floor by water. 

At the rail road freiglit depot the water was about five feet deep, 
but did not reach the floor. The depot was filled with goods, which 
escaped injury. At the passenger station the water was about twelve 
feet deep, but did not reach the second floor. The road is washed up 
about half a mile, but the embankments are safe, and the road can 
be put in good traveling order in a few days. At the old depot, 
which is now used as a private store-house, the water was about five 
feet deep on the floors. 

The scene yesterday was distressing to behold. Look in what di- 
rection you would, you could see every one busily engaged in shovel- 
ing the mud from their stores; or washing such articles as were 
saved, not subject to damage by water. 

The Bridge. — Already has timber been engaged for the rebuild- 
ing of the lower bridge, and the services of a large force engaged, 
under a competent superintendent, f )r its reconstruction. A steam 
pile driver will be used, and as soon as the river falls sufficiently op- 
erations will be commenced. In the meantime transportation be- 
tween the two roads will be kept up by means of flats and drays. 

Laurens, September 3. 

We were congratulating ourselves last week on escaping from the 
August freshet, which, for two years past, did so mucn injury to the 
crops in this part of the country, but our paper had scarcely gone to 
press before the sky became darkened by black and lowering clouds, 
and the whole face of the earth covered with water. We have never 
seen such a rain. The earth was perfectly saturated with that which 
had fallen a few days previous, and as very little of it was absorbed, 
the creeks and rivers began instantly to rise, and at their maximum 
height they were far over the highest water mark that the "oldest 
inhabitant" can remember. In fact, we have heard of such aston- 
ishing rises in some of our streams that we And it difficult to give 
them implicit credit. 

Of course, the injury has been immense. There were some twenty- 
eight or thirty bridges in the di«tr*ict, and we have heard of but one 
which is now standing, and that is a small one across Bush River, in 
Maj. Eigleberger's plantation, in the lower part of the district. On 
Enoree river, from Chick's Springs, in Greenville, to the limits of 
this district, great injury has been done the many fine merchant 
mills and saw-mills erected on this notable stream. We learn from a 
gentleman who came down the river from Chick Springs, under the 
hope of crossing at Woodruff's, that all the houses about Lester's 
Factory, in Greenville, except his cotton mill, are washed away. At 
Van Patterson's Shoais, the dam and race are injured. Fleming's 
mills are entirely washed away. Woodruft^'s are but slightly injured. 
Park's saw-mill dam, and a substantial wall for a merchant mill, on 
Durbin's creek, near Enoree, are washed away, and his race very 



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303 



much injured. We learn [also that all the mills helow WDodruff's, 
except, perhaps, Yarborough's and Nesbit'a, at the Mountain Shoals, 
are seriously injured, and riiat)y of tiiern entirely gone. 

Campbell's grist and saw-mills are both gone. Dr. Bobo's mills, 
formerly Musgrove's, are both gone. The saw-mill washed away 
durmg the freshet, and the grist-mill was so moved that when the 
waters subsided it fell and was crushed to pieces. Lewis Jones' mills 
— the finest, perhaps, on the river — together with a gin-house, are all 
washed away. In the mill, we learn, there were about 100 barrels of 
flour ready for market. Hi" loss has been very serious. 

On Duncan's creek, Pitt & Craig's (formerly Sheldon's) grist, saw- 
mill and woollen factory, are both gone. The same has happened to 
the mills and factory of Pitts & Duval. 

On Little river, at Milton, we learn that the wat^er was nearly 
over the saw-mill, and high up in the grist-mill; but, with the excep- 
tion of some 40 barrels of flour, 120 bushels wheat, and 100 bushels 
corn, which were lost, the injury was but slight. The chain pump 
manufactory, however, of Robert Wilson, erected here, was entirely 
swept away. 

On Raibun's creek, we learn that Rodgers' grist and saw-mills are 
both gone. Studdard's saw-mill gone, and his grist-mill moved from 
its foundation. Bolt's saw-mill gone. Crumbie's saw-mill and grist- 
mill both gone. The loss which Captain Crumble has sustained is 
very serious. He had gone to gieat expense in their erection, and 
had just completed them. Mrs. Goodgion's and Joe Crews' saw-mill 
were both washed away, and Crews' grist mill moved from its foun- 
dation. Garlington's and Culberton's gin-houses were washed away 
and their dams much injured. 

On Reedy river, we learn that the saw-mill and gin-house at Tum- 
bling Shoals, and the grist-mill and saw-mill at Boyd's, are all gone. 

Many of the mills in the district we have not heard from, but pre- 
sume that all on the larger streams are more or less injured. 

The injury below us, we learn, is equally as serious. We have re- 
ceived but one mail below Newberry since Saturday last, in conse- 
quence of the loss of the fine bridge thrviwn across Broai river by the 
Greenville and Columbia Rail Road, and the washing away of a large 
portion of the embankment between that point and Columbia. We 
understand that the bridge was torn fron) its abutments by a large 
gin-house which came down against it from above. What other loss 
the company has sustained we have not heard. 

We are gratified to learn that no <lamage has been done to the 
Laurens road, but in consequence of the injury below, its completion 
will be very uuich delayed for the want of iron. 

The extent of the loss of the district, we are unable to comcnte, 
and from the number of mills wa^b^d away, (and no district <-an 
boast of finer ones); the large amount of grain and fiour which was 
in them at the time of the disaster; the number of biidges gon<'. :ind 
the great damage done to the corn crop, it is almost incalci: kiltie. 



304: ANNALS OF NEWBEEET. 

No such calamity has ever before befallen tlie district, and we 
humbly trust that none will ever occur again. 



Mobile, August 27. 

The Tribune of Friday morning says : 

The storm which we mentioned in our last continued to rage yes- 
terday until noon, when it began to subside. The wind blew all night 
and yesterday morning from the southeast. About midday it shifted 
farther south; then to the west, nud finally set in from the north, or 
a point in that direction. 

The flood began to decre se at noon, and towards night it fell back 
as far as front street, leaving a deposit of mud, boards and wood, and 
the debris of timber everywhere in the low streets. 

It is imposible to give at the present time any accurate idea of the 
extent of this great flood, or the damage which it produced. 

On St. Francis street, in the north part of the city, the waters came 
up to the office of St. John, Powers & Co., where v,e saw a large steam- 
beat barge moored. Further up, it reached St. Joseph street, to a 
depth sufticieut to float a boat. The railroad depot was completely 
surrounded by water, and the railroad for a distance of two miles, 
the only part examined, was covered to a depth of one or two feet. 

On Dauphin street the water came up as far as this printing office. 
On Conti street it reached about the same height. On Government 
street, near the lower part of the market-house, a small steamboat 
might have plied. In the southern part of the city the flood was still 
greater. At Spanish alley the houses almost floated, and men were 
called thither to rescue the inmates from drowning. 

Apprehensions are entertained that the foundations of some of the 
stores, particularly those in the course of erection, are so much injured 
as to require reconstruction; but this, we presume, is imaginary. The 
chief general injury is in the destruction of the wharves, and it is 
feared that unless extraordinary eflorts are made to clear the streets, 
sickness will inevitably follow. The flrst object should be to eflect 
this purpose. The floors of the submerged stores should also be im- 
mediately raised, and drained and lined. With such precautions a» 
these, we think there will be no danger. 

At Choctaw Point Light House a sad result of the storm occurred. 
The tenement which was occupied by the keeper, Mrs. Philbert, be- 
ing undermined by the flood, gave way, and Mrs. Philbert, her son- 
in-law, William E. Coglin, and his wife, with their two children, and 
Oscar Philbert, were forced to seek shelter as best they could. They 
attempted to save themselves by a rude raft; but Mrs. Philbert and 
her two grandchildren, after being driven about by the wind, and b^' 
the water, were washed from the'r frail bark and drowned. Mr. Cog- 
lin and his wife were rescued. Mr. Philbert and a negro are missing. 
Both, doubtless, were drowned. The body of Mrs. Philbert was 



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found terribly mutilated, aud has been interred to-day. The bodies 
of the children have not been recovered. 

Near Government street the bodies of a woman and child were 
found. They were the family of a gardener, commonly called Dutch 
Charley, who cultivated the marsh opposite the city. It s^ems that 
when the flood came their house was carried awaj*. The husband 
and father, by means of a log and imperfect raft, attempted to put 
his wife and child on a peach tree, but they were carried awa^' by the 
water, aud drowned before he could reach them. 

The houses on the island, and elsewhere opposite the city, were 
chiefly destroyed. One house was carried up the river, and but for 
the timely arrival of the steamboat Heroine, on its way to the city 
from Bladon Springs, and the humane exertions of Captain H. John- 
son, the inmates would, doubtless, have found a grave in the angry 
flood. Capt. J. rescued them all, five in number— one a mother with 
an infant only three months old. They had bfen exposed some 
twenty hours without food or shelter, and were nearly dead. They 
were taken on board the Heroine, and treated with extreme kind- 
ness; so that within a brief time they were completely restored. Sev- 
eral cattle were found at the distance of ten miles above the city, 
whither they had been driven from the island opposite the city. 

The Advertiser of Sunday contains the following : 
We learn by the captain of a fishing smack, who came up to the 
city last evening, that five smacks with their crews were lost between 
Dog river and Dauphin Island, during the late gale. The number of 
lives lost with them is supposed to be from fifteen to twenty. 

Taking it altogether, this has been the highest and most disastrous 
flood ever known to Mobile, and, doubtless, the destruction here is 
not greater than that on the coast. On the lower part of the eastern 
shore the land lies low, and there, we fear, there have been much dis- 
tress and loss among the residents. 

Georgetown, September 1. 
The Winyah Observer, speaking of the late freshet, says : 

The mighty rush of water must soon be upon our planters of the 
Santee. 

The news reached this place by the steamer from Charleston, on 
Monday, and we understand that the planters high upon the Santee 
commenced at once to harvest their crops, with the view of saving as 
much as possible before the water came down upon them. The rice 
crop on that river is all of it nearly ready for the hook, and the dam- 
age will be most grievous to such planters as reside within the range 
of this lamentable freshet. There is also quite a rise In Pee Dee, but 
the extent of it we do not know. 

The Evening News learns from a reliable source that the rise in the 
river at Cheraw was only fifteen feet, and it passed rapidly of?. Con- 
sequently, there is no danger to our Pee Dae friends. 

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306 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Marietta, Ga., August 31. 

The Marietta Advocate says : 

The incessant and heavy rains of last Thursday and Friday have 
done great damage. Bottom lands have heen to a great extent over- 
flowed, and the standing crops of corn, &c., have been greatly in- 
jured, if not ruined. We hear of bridges and /uill-datiis destroyed on 
almost all the water courses in this section. The Jloine Rail Road is 
so much injured as to preveut the ruuninj^ of the ears on yesterday. 

Ati^anta, August 31. 
The Atlanta Intelligencer has the following notice of it : 
AVe had the most violent storm of wind and rain on last Thursday 
night, and Friday, and part of Friday night, that we have witnessed 
for years. The rain fell in torrents. The creeks and rivers have all 
overflown their banks, and vast destruction to the corn and cotton 
crops must be the unavoidable result. The mills are nearly all car- 
ried away in this section of countr3^ We fearfully anticipate the re- 
port of the destruction of large amounts of property, besides the ruin 
of the maturing crops. 

Montgomery, Ala., August 31. 

The Montgomery Advertiser and Gazette says : 

The Alabama is "booming," though about on a stand. The pros- 
pect is, that we shall have a good river for the balance of the season. 
tSo those living South who have been spending their leisure time at 
the North, will meet with no hindrance here on their return trip. 
Plenty of boats will be in readiness for their transportation. 

The Tallapoosa River is very high. The stage from this city to 
Wetumpka has not crossed for three or four days, and our up-country 
people are cut off from communication with us. We presume the 
stage will be able to go to Wetumpka to-da^'. 

Memphis, Tenn., August 30. 

A telegraphic dispatch, dated at Memphis, says : 

Tiie recent rain storms have destroyed property to the amount of 
S20,000 in this vicinity. In the adjacent counties the corn and cotton 
crops are washed out of the ground. 

Union, September 3. 

The Journal says : 

It is painful to think, even, upon the sweeping destruction. Not 
less than ten thousand acres of bottom laud, in this district, have 
been submerged. The loss is incalculable, but may be safely put 
down at three hundred thousand dollars. Every bridge in the dis- 
trict, we believe, with perhaps one exception, has been swept away, 
while almost everj saw-mill, and several very valuable flour mills, 
have met with a similar fate. Thousands of bushels of wluat and 
hundreds of barrels of flour have been swept off' in the wreck. Yet, 
with all our losses, we have abundant reason to be thankful. The 
uplands ^ive promise of au abundance, and although cakes may not 



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be as plenty as bbckberries, we trust tliat old Union miy have 
enough, and some to spare. 

Spartanburg, September 2. 

Any attempt at description would be vain. Suffice it to say, that 
this has been the great'jst and most destructive flood with uliich this 
section of the country has ever been visited. Lawson's Fork river 
was ten feet higher than tver known l)efore; and we i)resume this 
was the case with the rivers and creeks generally. Thus, it may be 
seen at once that the loss of property and produce must necessarily be 
greater than on any former occasioo. Any attempt to estimate the 
value of property lost would be fruitless; but we feel warranted in 
saying, from the reports coming in from the country, that the 1<JS3 to 
our di.>?trict amounts to more than one hundred thousand dollars. 
Some intelligent gentlemen, however, estimate the loss at a much 
higher sum. 

Pickens, August 28. 

The last Pickens Courier says : 

For a week past we have had a flood of rain almost without cessa- 
tion. On yesterday tho rain fell in torrents, which Cv)ntinued with 
great violence for the space of eighteen hours, causing much destruc- 
tion to the growing corn in and about this place, and we fear in the 
adjoining districts. 

The rivers and creeks in this vicinity rose, on the 27th, loan unpre- 
cedented height, flooding the lowlands, and sweeping away every- 
thing which might impede their progress. 

As far as our knowledge, it is the general impression that not less 
than one-third of the corn crops will be destroyed. We hope, how- 
ever, that this may be an ever-estimate of what will be really de- 
stroyed. Keowee river is this morning twenty feet above low-waler 
mark. 



WILLIAM SPENCER BROWN, 
Chief Engineer Greenville and Columbia Rail Road. 

It is with feelings which can scarcely be restrained, after the lapse 
of a month, that a friend undertakes to speak of him whose name 
heads thia article, as one "who was, and is not!" Alas, how brief is 
time, and how uncertain are all its issues ! He who is now in the 
silent chambers of the dead, for years ha^ been the valued friend aud 
administrative officer of him who now writes, and who, by many 
years, was his senior, aud who, according to the <'our&e of nature, 
ought to have preceded him to the tomb. But God sees not as man. 
The younger has been taken from the trials and troubles of life; the 
elder has been left to encounter many of them single-handed, where 
the services of the younger would have been invaluable. But God 
gave, and God has taken a-.vay; blessed be His name forever aud 
ever ! 



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William Spencer Brown was the son of Major General Jacob Browu. 
Comaiauder-in-Cbief of the Army of the United States, and of his 
wife, Pamela. He was every way worthy of such an illustrious par- 
entage. He was born at Brownville, in the State of New York, 27th 
May, 1815. He graduated at West Point in 1835. He received a second 
lieutenant's commission in the army in the same year, but never 
joined his regiment. He resigned in 1836, and became assistant en- 
gineer on the enlargement of the Erie canal. In 1836 and 1837 he was 
employed on the Norristowu and Valley Rail Road. In 1837 he was 
married to Elizabeth D. Barnes, the daughter of Judge Joseph Barnes, 
of Philadelphia. This accomplished lady accompanied him, imme- 
diately after marriage, to the South, and encountered cheerfully all 
the privations of an engineer's life in an almost Indian country. No 
two people were ever more devoted to each other. Often has th^ 
writer had the opportunity to spe the perfect happiness which per- 
vaded the fatuiiy circle when the luisbaud and father, the idolized 
"Willie," was present. This, alas, is no more to be seen ! Still the 
lovely, mourning widow has much to live for in rearing up the inter- 
esting little ones, the pledges of their loves and the living monuments 
of their worthy father. 

In 1837 he was appointed assistant engineer on the Western and 
Atlantic Railroad, Georgia. He held this place to 1843. It seems, 
too, that in this time he became chief engineer on the Memphis 
Branch Rail Road, and so continued from 184U to 1847 ; and in the 
same time, beginning in 1846, he had charge of the Coosa and Ten- 
nessee Rail Road. 

The writer of this tribute to his memory has often heard him say 
he drove the first stake where Atlanta now is, and that he laid out 
and named "Gadsden," on the Mississippi river. In his services, in 
Georgia, he made the acquaintance of, and served under. General 
Brisbane. Here began a friendship, pure and worthy, which was 
only terminated by his death. 

In June, 1847, Mr. Brown, without the personal acquaintance of 
either the president or any of the directors, was elected second as- 
sistant engineer of the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road, with the 
small salary of $1,000. He made the acquaintance of the president 
in Augusta, Georgia, shortly after, and in his cotnpany visited Co- 
lumbia, and determined to accei)t the appomtment. It was, on this 
occasion, that he gave the memorable reply to an inquiry of the 
president whether a road could be constructed from Columbia to 
Greenville: "Give an engineer money and he can go any where." 

It seems that, in this year, Mr. |Brown was elected Professor of 
History and Ethics in the State Military Academy, but declined to 
accept. At what precise time this was the writer does not know, for 
he was never aware of the fact until very recently. 

Under that excellent, clear-headed, prudent officer, John McRae, 
chief engineer, in July, 1847, be organized the Brigade of Engineers 



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— consisting of himself, his [class-mate Wm. Henry Griffin, J. Y. 
Mills and George Walker — who ran the experimental line ot the 
Greenville and Columbia Rail Road, directly from Columbia to 
Greenville, one hundre'i and ten miles, in about fory days. On the 
terminafon of this sur /ey he became first assistant engineer, with a 
salary of $1,750. 

Subsequent consideration (after the surrey of a line from New- 
berry through Abbeville District to Anderson and Greenville, made 
by that able engineer and worthy gentleman. Major Horace Bliss,) 
induced the company to locate their road, in November, from Co- 
lumbia, for twenty-six miles on the eastern side of the Broad River 
to Alston; thence across the river, and up the valley of Priester's 
fork of Crim's creek to Newberry; thence to the Saluda valley, fol- 
lowing it to the mouth of Wilson's creek; thence across Saluda, and 
crossing Wilson's creek twice, and Ninety-Six creek once, to the 
Saluda ridge, and pursued it to Belton; it then turned to Anderson, 
and thence over a rough country, and again crossing Saluda to 
Greenville. This location was highly displeasing to many of the 
stockholders. 

Laurens, whose subscription was conditional that the road should 
be located within one mile of her town, was of course thrown out. 
The stockholders of Greenville District declared themselves unwilling 
to pay up their stock. The President, too, who felt that his word 
(which had been given in the presence and by the authority of the 
directors, that if the subscription of Laurens amounted to S14'.',000 
the road should be located by that town,) was disregarded, and, in- 
deed, repudiated, by the action of the stockholders, declared his pur- 
pose to resign. After reflection, and the belief that his resignation 
would be fatal to the enterprise, induced him to retain his post, and 
press the work. 

Mr. Brown located the road on the east bank of Broad River in the 
winter of 1847 and '48, and it was put under contract. The company 
devolved upon him, as a commissioner, the duty of obtaining relin- 
quishments of the right of way from Columbia to Saluda, and 
increased his salary to 3^2,000. This very delicate duty he performed 
admirably well. Few men possessed the same facility of persuading 
people to do what he desired, which he did. 

In 1848 the line to Anderson was located, and grading contracts 
offered to stockholders, who were entitled, under the charter, to 
work out half their stock. These contracts were generally accepted, 
and the work was begun with great activity. 

In December, 1848, the Legislature generously subscribed one-half 
of the bonds of the South Carolina Rail Road to the State, amount- 
ing to more than 1250,000. 

In February, 1849, Mr. McRae, to accept the post of chief engineer 
on the South Carolina Rail Road, resigned his place as chief engineer 
on the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road, and Mr. Brown was in- 
stantly advanced to his place, with a salary of $2,500. 



310 ANNALS OF NEWBEBBY. 

By the advice of Mr. Bidwii, in the spring of 1849, i\ contract was 
ruude willi the South Carolina Hail Road to take, at $45 per ton, de- 
livered in Colunihia, in payment of their bouds at par, st> much of 
their flange iron as would stand his inspection. It redulted, in 1851 
and '52, in the Company receiving a little over thirty miles. Many 
persons have been disposed to censure Mr. Blown for this. But 
unquestionably he was right; the bonds could not then have been 
sold for more than $90 in the lumdred; the iron, so far as received, is 
good, and capable of many years service. In the summer of that 
year a Ci)Utract was njade with CdI. Uadsden for the purchase and 
delivery in Charleston of about sixty miles of iron (chunk bar), the 
bonds of the South Carolina Rail Road to be received in payment at 
$90. In the summer of that year negotiations were opened with the 
recussaut stockholders of Greenville, which led to a reconaoisance by 
Mr. Brown from Greenville to Belton. He pronounced the route 
practicable; a survey was ordered, and, a very favorable report being 
made, the stockholders were assembled at Abbeville to consider the 
propriety <>f changing the location niide in 1847; and after a pro- 
tracted discussion, and on securing to Anderson the road from Beltou 
to Anderson, the location from Anderson to Greenville was aban- 
doned, and that from Belton to Greenville adopted. Thereupon the 
stockholders of Greenville (with a large accession of stock from Bun- 
combe and Hender-on, and an increase by one of the stockholders of 
Greenville, Vardry McBee, of his stock to $50,000,) assented to the 
conipromise; and at Greenville, in November, the terms of payment 
were arranged. At the meeting at Abbeville a branch from Cokes- 
bury to Abbeville was established, and additional stock for the same 
received. 

Id September, 1S49, the track began to be laid down to Columbia; 
and during the session of the Legislature of that year the engine 
Abbeville ran up a few miles on the road, very much to the gratili- 
cation of the members and the judges. In December, 1849, the 
Legi-<lature again very generously subscribed $75,000 in the South 
Carolina Rail Road stock— $25,000 to be paid on the grading being 
completed to Abbeville, and $50,000 on the same being done to 
Greenville, 

The year 1850 began with the most favorable auspices; everything 
promised a rapid completion of the road. But the spring rains of 
that year retarded the work most materially, especially the bridge 
across Broad River. In June or July the track was finished to the 
river. Previous to this the undertaker of the stone work had been 
dismissed, and Mr. Brown took upon himself the arduous dutj' of 
having this work done. He succeeded; but in July many of Mr. 
Deumead's hands engaged on the wooden superstructure were 
struck down with sickness and fled from the work. Here, again, ISIr. 
Brown's unconquerable energy was put in requisition. He, with the 
assistance of Mr. H. T. Peake, the superintendent of the road, and of 
Mr. Fry, of Columbia, took the whole construction on himself. He 



ANNALS OF NEWEEKEY. 311 

hired liauds, and by paHsinn; all down ever^' evening to Colunnbia 
secured their health. The work progressed iininterniptedly till the 
24th of August, when the rnereiorable freshet of that j'ear occurred. 
Three spans of the bridge were up, and the scaffolding for them and 
a fourth span were standing. The freshet swept away the scaffold- 
ing, but left the bridge and road uninjured. Mr. Brown, on that 
occasion, showed the fearless intrepidity which, at last, probably, 
consigned him to a watery grave. On Sunday and Monday, when 
the freshet was at its height, he ascended the road, and when, as he 
afterwards said to the writer of this memoir, "it looked like running 
right up Broad river, there being almost as much water apparently 
to the right as to the left of the road." 

From the abatement of the freshet to the 14th of October, when 
the bridge was finished and crossed, Mr. Brown might have been 
seen, day after day, standing on the flats and scaffolding in Broad 
river, urging on the work. Often did the writer, anxious as Mr. 
Brown about the work, caution him against the exposure and risk 
to which he was subjecting himself. In his usual, quiet way he said 
he was willing to encounter it, though be thought by sleeping everj' 
night in Columbia he would be safe, and so it turned out. 

In ]8o0 he became the cousuUiug engineer of the Laurens Rail 
Road Company, and put that road under way. 

The Greenville and Columbia Rail Road reached Newberry in 
March, 1851. Previous to this time a contract was made for a supply 
of the T iron, which began to be laid down at Little River, Newberry. 
The work was pressed with unceasing ardor — but the country from 
Newberry to Ninety-Six, in Abbeville, was one presenting great dif- 
ficulties. Bush River, Beaverdam creek, Saluda River, Wilson's and 
Ninety-Six creeks, all had to be cross-ed; so, too, the Saluda Valley, 
for miles, had to be ascended I To some of the stockholders living in 
Abbeville and Anderson the road seemed to move entirely too slow. 
The July meeting, IBol, of the stockholders at Newberry exhibited 
some discontent, and strange to say, the mover of the discontent had 
not finished his own grading contract at the nearest point to New- 
berry, where the road was delayed. 

In ISol Mr. Brown became the consulting engineer of the King's 
Mountain R:iil Road, and gave it its successful beginning, which has 
now carried it through. In the latter part of the year he ceased to 
be the consulting engineer of both it and the Laurens Rail Road— 
neither longer needing his important services. 

In March, 1852, the road reached Ninety-Six. Between this point 
and Greenwood, ten miles, a delay of more than two months was 
encountered, from the fact that the iron could not be forwarded by 
the South Carolina Rail Road. The first week in July the road 
reached Greenwood, and Cokesbury by the 1st of August, and Bar" 
more's in the next two weeks, having in six weeks made a distance 
of fourteen miles. The timber superstructure is upon the road to 
Saluda on the main line, and the Greenville extension. No doubt 



312 ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

was eutertaiaed that by the first of October the road would be coru- 
pleled to Belton, and to Auderson by the first of December. But 
God thought proper, no doubt, for wise purposes, to defeat all these 
expectations. 

On Tuesday, 24th of August, Mr. Brown left Columbia for a brief 
visit over the road, intending to return on Friday. To accomtnodate 
his friends of Laurens, he was induced on Thursday to visit that 
town to locate their depot. The rain of Thursday night and Friday 
detained him until Saturday morning, when, in company with Col. 
Irby, president of the Laurens Rail Road, on horseback he swam 
Little river at the upper fnrd, near thp town, aod reached the head 
of the Laurens Rail Road; thence he came to Helena, where he 
stopped the Greenville and Columbia passenger train; from which 
place his anxiety carried him as far up the Greenville and Columbia 
Rail Road as he could go; he made his way to Chappell's and saw 
the great flood in Saluda; he dined with his friend, Dr. Moon, on 
Sunday, and on that evening in a telegraph car, himself and A. C. 
Garlington, Esq., descended the road from Little river to Helena. 
On Monday morning, the 30th of August, he left in the train for 
Columbia; it was obliged to stop, on account of the injuries done to 
the road, before it reached Crim's creek; he ordered it back to 
Helena, telling the conductor that he would find some way of 
getting to Columbia. 

He got on the Broad River bridge, opposite Alston, and there he 
saw Broad River in a flood never surpassed and only approached by 
the Yazoo freshet of '96. There he saw Alston in ruins, and four 
spans of Broad river bridge swept away. There he met his friend, 
Col. A. G. Summer, and stated to him his plans for restoring the 
road and bridge; and on expressing his anxiety to reach Columbia, 
Col. Summer offered him liis pony, which he had concluded to 
accept, but seeing Mr. McCoHum on the other side of the river, he 
said: "There is McCollum, and he is fixing a boat to come over." 
In a brief time McCollum, his son and Jefferson committed them- 
selves, in a large batteau, to the angry waters, and, ascending three- 
fourths of a mile above the bridge, they struck across, apparently 
intending to strike Hampton's Island, but the force of the current 
carried them to the point of it, and thence shooting through between 
the piers of the bridge they landed below. On conferring with 
McCollum, and fearing that the Columbia bridge was gone, and 
understanding from McCollum that he had bought the batteau, he 
(Brown) determined on crossing and finding his way in it by 
water to Columbia. 

This rash conclusion Colonel Summer combated, in every way he 
could, but in vain; he then endeavored to prevail with them to leave 
McCollum's little son with him, telling them, as a prudent man, that 
"they were men, and if they chose to peril their lives, it was their 
own act, but that they had no right to jeopardize the life of the child." 
The child's anxiety to go, and the father's belief in his son's power of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 313 

swiiiitniug, prevailed over tliis prudent counsel. They crossed the 
river safely. Mr. Brown borrowed the money and paid for the bat- 
teau. His double purpose was to examihe the injury to the roadi 
and fo reach his family. They deceuded near the line of the railroad 
for nearly four miles; then Mr. Brown, observing that it was very la- 
borious to row in the still water, and that McCollum's hands were 
blistered, proposed to throw the batteau into the current and float 
to Columbia. To this McCoUum says he objected, as he did not know 
the river. Mr. Brown replied that there was no danger till they came 
near to Columbia. The batteau was thrown into the channel. In 
less than a mile, McCoUum states that he saw the danger ahead, and 
therefore took the steerage paddle from his little boy. In a few mo- 
ments they ran into a cross current in Freshley's falls. The batteau 
went under the water, overturned, and the party rose, JefTerson cling- 
ing to the bottom of the boat. Brown, McCoUum and his son swim- 
ming. Jeflerson maintained himself until the batteau, several miles 
below, struck against a tree, which he climbed, and was thence taken 
off next day. Mr. McCollum soon saw that his son could not keep 
pace with him; he, therefore, waited until he got him up alongside, 
told him to lay his hand on his shoulder, and swim all that he could 
to lighten him. This was done, and they and Brown, swimming 
near each other, swam, McCollum states, at least two miles, when a 
floating limb carried him and his son down. On rising, he found his 
child was gone, and could nowhere be found. Brown he saw swim 
ming near him, and said to him, "Colonel, I hope we shall get out 
yet !" Some reply was made; what it was he could not hear. He 
struck out for the laud, reached it, and was saved. Brown, after 
swimming still further down the river, below Littleton, was seen to 
rise and sink, by a man and his wife, who knew him not, but de- 
scribed j)art of his dress, so as to identify him. His body, after being 
three weeks in the sand, and under water, was found in a short dis- 
tance of the place described, where he was seen to sink. 

Thus, in his 38th year, perished William Spencer Brown, tie has 
left a widow and five interesting children, with the prospect of an- 
other soon to be added. His mother still survives. Sad upon her 
widowed ear fell the intelligence of the death of her son, who hur- 
dled far from her and the home of his nativity. 

In the providence of God he was permitted to visit her, and his re- 
lations generally, last .Tune. 

William Spencer Brown was ubout six feet high, of a rather slender 
frame, but capable of great endurance. His features were regular, 
and he more resembled his mother than his father. 

He was a man of great energy and indomitable perseverance. He 
was quicK in his perception of any matter; he was prompt in execu- 
tion. If he had a fault (and who is without them?) he was too im- 
petuous. 

He was quick to resent an insult, but equally quick to forgive. He 
was a warm, generous, devoted friend and relative. 



314 ANXALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

As a son, husband and fatlier, none who ever saw him in the pres- 
ence of liid mother, and at borne, could doubt that he was all which 
such relationships could dwnand. 

He was a rnra'al man. Never heard the writer of this sketch en 
oath from his lips; never was he intoxicated; indeeil, ardent spirits 
he never touched. His life, to the eye of his friend, whose memory 
clings to him with a tenacity never to be broken, seemed to be with- 
out fault. 

Much, he would have thought, was in store to crown him with 
honor and usefulness ; but it was not so ordered. He was cut down 
in a moment, and in the waste of waters, without an arm to help, a 
voice to say God have mercy, or an eye to drop a tear. His bod^' sank 
to rise no more until the general resurrection, and his spirit fled away 
to the bosom of his Father and God. 



THE GREENVILLE AND COLUMBL\ RAIL ROAD. 

The junior editor (as the representative of a large portion of the 
Greenville stock,) had the pleasure of attending the convention of the 
stockholders of this road, which met at Newberry on Wednesday 
last. A pleasant day's drive took us to Donaldsville, thirty-eight 
miles, being the present head of the road. On next morning, in com- 
pany with near two hundred passengers, we passed rapidly over our 
railroad, and arrived at Newberry just as the convention was ready 
for assenibling. The meeting was organized in a large room of the 
hotel lately kept by Mr. Bierfleld, but being found too small, there 
being near two hundred stockholders present, it was adjourned to the 
Newberry theatre, to hear the address of the President, setting forth 
the present condition of the affairs of the road and the propriety of 
calling on the stockholders for an assessment on their stock. He 
spoke for more than two hours, showing, in a clear, candid and elo- 
quent manner, the history of the road, its disasters, the progress of 
repair and construction, and its future prospects. We cannot describe 
it3 affairs better than by giving a synopsis of his speech. He gave « 
history of the road, its original organization, the location, the diffi- 
culties arising out of it, and took occasion, ivlth great emphasis, to say 
to them that they knew if there was a fault in the location that he 
was not responsible for it; that the present route of the road wa» 
forced upon him, and as soon as it was fixed he had thrown himself 
into the w'ork with all ihe zeal and energy which he possessed. 

He stated that the stock subscribed to build the road by the Stata 
and individuals did not exceed $1,231,120; that of that there was still 
remaining unpaid, or unaccounted for, the sum of $175,755.48; that a 
large proportion of this sum was covered, probably, by certificates of 
work not yet brought in, and which would, pro tanto, diminish the 
apparent debt of the company; that the cost of the road, when fin- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 315 

isbed, would be ;;2,C40,219.G0; tlmt tbis covered everylhiog— t^tockiug 
the road, vvorksliops, repairs, &e.; and it would still be the cheapest 
road ever built vvithiu bis knowledge, the cost being J;lll,o01 per mile, 
^1,499 per ujile less than the Charlotte and South Carolina Rail Road. 

He gave a rapid description of the road for one hundred and five 
miles completed, pointing the attention to the immense work done, 
not less than eight bridges being built, and a rolling, rich country 
penetrated. Had it not been for the great August freshet, said he, we 
would now have been at Anderson ! That freshet injured and swept 
down more than thirty miles of the road. The work of repair has 
been more tedious than was anticipated. But, said he, it is impossi- 
ble for men to labor against disease or to resist the elements. 

The work in the Saluda valley, comparatively slight when com- 
pared with that in the Broad River, was done within the titne ex- 
pected, by the self-sacrificing contractors, Messrs. Singleton & Hair, 
Messrs. Pennington & Burns, and Messrs. Miller, Henry & Miller, 
under Feaster and La-Salle, as directed by the energetic chief engi- 
neer, Mr. Griffin. 

In the Broad River valley, Mr. Pearce, the superintendent, aided by 
Mr. Chamberlaine, Butler, Duncan, Feaster, Pennington and Burns, 
have, in a succession of the worst weather, and amid disease, repaired 
and put in beautiful operation twenty-six miles of road; building, in 
the mean time, a beautiful and substantial bridge across Cedar creek. 
So, too, Mr. Owens, under Mr. Peake's direction, restored the trestle 
near Crim's creek. All these great works of repair have been done in 
less than four months, two of which, September and the latter part 
of November, and all December, have been storm and rain, with rare 
glimpses of sunshine. Notwithstanding, these faithful, devoted men 
have worked on and on, until all is finished except the Broad River 
bridge. That has been delayed going up, until the road could be fin- 
ished; first, on account of the difficulty of transporting stone seven 
miles by wagon to rebuild the piers; and, second, to bring back the 
spans of the bridge, washed twelve miles down the river. Two spans, 
it is hoped, will be brought back this week, and in the next six weeks, 
he said, he bad great liopes all might be repaired, and the engine pass 
continuously from Columbia to Donald's and above! For the pres- 
ent, ample arrangements were made and making to pass travelers and 
freight across Broad river. The repairs had been, and would be com- 
pleted at, probably, |6,G00 beyond the estimate submitted to the pub- 
fic. 

He stated that there was an actual necessity now for S-llG, 980.20. 
To meet this, independent of our outstanding stock, which will be 
considered equal to the contractors' demand and the finishing of the 
road, we have, said he, $bS7,978 in present available means ; and by 
the sale of the bonds it might be possible to reduce this further ($1S2,- 
000,) leaving only about $77,000 to be provided for. But, said he, we 
have contracts for iron and rolling stock to more than $100,000 which 
must soon be met. 



316 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

It is hoped Congress may put the duties, say ?35,565.21, on time, 
and allow them to be paid in mail service, and thus relieve the com" 
pany from paying out that much cash. 

So, too, he hoped, he said, the Bank of the State might take the 
company's bond on time, and give up $73,000 of hypothecated securi- 
ties, which could be turned into money, and thus further relieve the 
company. Still it was necessary there should be an assessment to 
provide means and to put the company above the suspicion of inter- 
ested men, who are constantly endeavoring to affect its credit. An 
assessment of one-fifth — 14 per share — to be called for in installments 
of$l per share every sixty days, making an aggregate of $246,188, 
was necessary. This sum, he hoped, would carry the road through 
all difficulties. The Treasurer, he recommended, should be directed 
to issue certificates for each installment, as paid, to be refunded out 
of the income, with 7 per cent, interest. 

He said that there was iron on hand, or coming in, to finish the 
whole road; that it was the opinion of the chief engineer that the 
whole road could be finished in four months, and certainly before 
next July. This opinion, he said, he thought was correct. The 
wooden superstructure was down on the Abbeville Branch, with the 
exception of three miles; that it was down to, or nearly to, Ander- 
son; that it was also down on the road to Saluda, within fourteen 
miles of Greenville. 

He said the iron was promised to be forwarded rapidly from 
Charleston, and would be as rapidly put forward by this road. 
Everything assured him, he said, that success, speedy success, was 
before him. We have been chastened sorely, but, said he, God does 
not punish always. He recommended that there should be a 
change, as soon as practicable, of the location of the road at Frost's, 
Bookter's, Chambers', Cedar creek and Turnipseed's. This being 
done, the road is out of all danger from water. He said, now he 
believed the road was perfectly safe. The entire road would now 
challenge comparison with any road in the State for its construction. 
He said to the stockholders, "You have this morning passed over 
the whole of \{—am I not righiV 

He said, in conclubion, that he hoped he might be permitted to 
say that no desire of power had caused him to linger at the head of 
this great work. He never was satisfied, he said, to leave a work 
unfinished, and he never was willing to abandon a ship in danger of 
stranding, nor to repudiate, when he could, h}i faith or loss, avoid it! 
The wreck, said lie, has been cleared, and the past is before you; and 
if, like Columbus' men, you will hold on and toil on a little longer, 
we will reach the long expected and desired laud. 

At the close of his address the convention adjourned to meet in 
the Baptist church at half-past 6 o'clock P. M. In the interim of 
the meeting the efFect of the president's address was visible upon 
every countenance, for whereas the stockholders had met in the 
morning under circumstances of doubt and gloom, and in some few 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 317' 

instances even of disaffection to the administration of the affairs of 
the company, own; all was confidence and cheerfulness, and a will- 
ingness to pay the assessments, and thus secure the benefits of their 
previous outlay. There was also manifested, with scarcely an ex- 
ception, a feeling that the interests of the company were safe in the 
hands of the president, and that no misfortune which had yet be- 
fallen it could equal that which it would sustain were he to with- 
draw from the administration of its affairs. It was evident that the 
storm was past, and sunshine and prosperity awaited us in the 
future. 

At the appointed hour the convention met in the Baptist Church, 
and without discussion the resolution for assessing the stock of the 
company 20 per cent, was passed almost unanimously. It was also 
resolved that the assessments should be called in by four instalments 
of $1 per share each, after notice on each instalment of GO days, and 
that the treasurer should issue receipts for each payment, binding 
the company to refund the amount, with 7 per cent, interest from 
the date of payment, out of the first income of the road. This mak^s 
the assessments amount to nothing more than a loan of money by 
the stockholders to the company, at legal interest, returnable at an 
early day— an arrangement that must give satisfaction to every 
stockholder who truly desires the success of the road. 

It was also resolved, as soon as practicable, to change the location 
of the road at all the exposed points between Alston and Columbia, 
and surveys for this purpose will shortly be made. But this ar- 
rangement, as well as every other, except the completion of the road, 
is to be delayed until the repayment of the assessments has been 
effected. 

After some little discussion in regard to a rumored abuse of the 
free ticket system on the road, which was properly placed in the 
hands of the directors, the convention adjourned; and the next 
morning the members sped swiftly and pleasantly to their respective 
homes. Hard after the passenger train up, followed the regular 
freight train, the first time of its running under the new arrange- 
ment. Freight, as well as iron for the road, is now brought up 
regularly, and the road is already regaining the heavy business 
which it did before the freshet in August. 

We were delighted to hear that our excellent friend. Col. Irby, 
Lieutenant-Governor of the h'tate and president of the Laurens Rail 
Road Company, (who was present at the convention,) subscribed 
$1,000 of stock of the company, as a pledge of his confidence in the 
enteri>rise and a token of his interest in the prosperity of the road. 



318 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

SENTENCE OF MOTLEY AND BLACKLEDGE. 

Thomas Motley ads. The State— Murder of a Slave. — Whitner, 
Judge. Motion for new tjial dismissed. 

Wlllia7n Blaekledge ads. The State— Murder of Slave. — Whitner, 
Judge. Motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial dismissed. 

His Honor, Judge O'Neall, pronounced on the prisoners the follow- 
ing eloquent, impressive and affecting sentence, worthy, in its gen- 
eral character, and especially honorable sensitiveness to true Southern 
character and sacred regard for the right of humanity, to take its 
place hy the side of that of Judge Wilde, many years ago, in the 
case of Slater, when the murder of a slave was punishable only with 
a pecuniary mulct: 

Thomas Motley — William Blaekledge. — Two mouths have parsed 
away since you stood before me, in the midst of the community 
where the awful tragedy, of which you have been convicted, was 
performed. I hope this time has been profitable to you, and that in 
the midnight watchings of your solitary cells you have turned back 
with shame and sorrow to the awful cruelties of which you were 
guilty on the 5th of July last. 

Notwithstanding the enormity of your oUence, you have no reason 
to complain that justice has been harshly administered. On the 
circuit and here you have had the aid of zealous, untiring counsel — 
every thing which man could do to turn away the sword of justice 
has been done; but in vain. Guilt, such as yours, cannot escape the 
sanctions of even earthly tribunals. 

My duty now is to pass between you and the State, and announce 
the law's awful doom! Before 1 do so, usage and propriety demand 
that I should endeavor to turn your thoughts to the certain results 
before you. Death here, a shameful death, awaits you! I hope it 
may be that you may escape the everlasting death of the soul. 

It may be profitable to you to recall the horrid deeds, which 3'ou 
jointly and severally committed, in the death of the poor, begging, 
unoflending slave. I will not repeat the disgustir.g details of the 
outrages committed; the public are already fully informed, and your 
own hearts, in every pulsation, repeat them to you. I may be per- 
mitted, however, to say to you, and to the people around you, and to 
the world, that hitherto South Carolina had never witnessed such 
atrocities; indeed, they exceed all that we are toldof savage barbarity- 
For the Indian, the moment his captive ceases to be a true warrior 
(in the sense of which he understands it) and pleads for mercy, no 
longer exteiids his sufferings — death, speedy death, follows. But 
you, for a night and part of the succeeding day, rioted in the suffer- 
ings and terrors of the poor negro, and at length your ferocious dogs, 
set on by j'ou, throttled and killed him, as they would a wild beast. 
Can't you hear his awful death cry, "Oh, Lord!'' If you cannot 
hear it, the Lord of Hosts heard and answered it. He demanded 
then, and noiu, from you, the fearful account of blood! 



ANNALS OF NEWEEREY. 319 

Y')u have met with the fearful cotisequences of the infamous busi- 
ness iu wliich you were engaged — hunting ricnai"a)/s u'ith dogs, equal- 
ly fierce and ferocious as the Spanish hloodh(>unds. With one of you 
(Motley) there could have been no excuse. Your father, young noan, 
is a man of wealth, reaped and gathered together tiy a life of toil and 
privation; that the son of such a man should be found more than a 
hundred miles from home, following a pack of dogs, in the chase of 
negro slaves, through the swamps of the lower country, under a 
summer's sun, shows either a love of cruelty, or of money, which is 
not easily satisfied. To the other prisoner, Blackledge, it may be 
that poverty aud former devotion to this sad business might have 
presented some excuses. 

The Scriptures, young men, with which, I fear, you have not been 
familiar, declare, as the law of God, "Thou shalt not kill." This 
divine statute, proclaimed to God's own prophet, amid the lightning 
and thunder of Sinai, was predicated of the law, previously given to 
Noah, after one race of men had perished. "Whoso sheddcth man's 
blood, by man shall his blood tie shed: for in the image of God made 
he man." In conformity to these divine commands, is the law of 
the State under which you have been condemned. No longer is the 
blood of the slave to be paid for with rjioney; no longer is the brutal 
murderer of the negro to go free! "Life for life" is demanded, and 
j'ou, poor, guilty creatures, have the forfeit to pay! A long expe- 
rience as a lawyer and a Judge, makes it my duty to say to you, and 
to the people all around you, never have Iknown the guilty murderer 
to go free! If judgment does not overtake him in the hall of justice, 
still the avenger of blood is in his pursuit: still the eye, which never 
slumbers nor sleeps, is upon him, until in some unexpected moment 
the command goes forth, "Cut him down," and the "place which 
knew him once shall know him no more forever." Since your trial, 
one of the witnesses, much censured for participation, in some sort, 
in your guilty deeds, has been suddenly cut off from life. 

I say to you young men, "You must die." Do not trust in hopes 
of executive clemency. It seems to me, however much the governor's 
heart may bleed to say "no" to your application, he will have to say 
it. Prepare yourselves, therefore, as reasonable, thinking, accounta- 
ble men, for your fate Search the Scriptures— obtain repentance by 
a godly sorrow for sin. Struggle night and day for pardon. Remem- 
ber, Christ the Saviour came to save sinners, the chief of sinners. 
Learn that you are such, nod he will then declare to you that, 
"though your sins be as scarlet, they nhall be white as snow; though 
they be red like crimson, they shall be us wool." 

The sentence of the law is, that you be taken to the place whence 
you last came, thence to the jai! of Colleton District; that you be 
closely and securely confined until V'ridy, the third day of March 
next, on which day, between th<> li^urs of ten in the forenoon -ujd 
two in the afternoon, you and each of you will be Lakcu, by the s ler- 
ifTof Colleton District, to the place of public execution, and thtie be 



320 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

hanged bj* the neck till yiur boriies be dead, and may God have mercy 
on your soul. 



TillBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF EX-GOVERNOR JOHNSON. 

A meeting of the bar was held in the chamber of the Ecjuity Court 
of Appeals, at half past 9 o'clock A. M., yesterday, to pay a tribute of 
respect and regard to the memory of the late ex-Governor Johnson. 

On motion of J. L. Petigru, Esq., Isaac W. Hayne, Esq., Attorney 
General, was called to the chair, and Thomas J. Gautt, Esq., (Clerk 
of the Court of Appeals and the Court of P^rrors, on the nomination 
of the deceased,) was appointed Secretary. 

The Chairman stated the object of the meeting in a few appropriate 
remarks. 

The Hon. Mitchell King then rose, and introduced tlie following 
preamble and resolution : 

The State of South Carolina is again called to mourn the death of one of 
ber most distinguished citizens. On the 7th day of this month, at his res- 
idence at Limestone Springs, the venerable and venerated David John" 
sou paid the debt of nature, and his ashes repose in Union District, near 
the place where he first saw the hght. The sympathies and aiTection of the 
community gather around his tomb. Every man feels that be has lost an 
enlightened friend. But the Judiciary, of whom he was long the presid- 
ing officer — who were so long associated with him in their high duties, and 
who were bound to him by the strongest ties of mutual kindness and con- 
fidence — and the bar, who sustained before him the toils of their laborious 
and anxious profession, have the deepest cause of sorrow. 

"We shall leave to the biographer the duty of commemorating the domes" 
tic and private virtues of our departed friend; and well, in them, will be 
deserve a faithful chronicler, for no kinder and more generous man, accord- 
ing to the full measure of his ability, ever lived. In every relation of life 
he strove to i^erform his duty. His heart overflowed with the best feel- 
ings, and was governed and guarded by his enlightened intellect. To speak 
of him as a lawyer and a judge is the special privilege of the bar ; and if 
the voice of friendship mingle in our commemoration, it is because we 
cannot well separate our love for him as a friend, from our admiration of 
him as a jurist. 

David Johnson was indeed one of nature's noblemen. He was no less 
remarkable for his presence than for his virtues. His frame was large, 
well proportioned and athletic ; his countenance grave, thoughtful and 
benevolent; his whole beariu.;- and deportment conciliated esteem and 
commanded respect; bis form was a fitting abode for bis. masculine and 
powerful intellect. 

He studied law under the direction of the learned and upright Abraham 
Nott. After some years' successful practice at the bar, be was in 181.5 
raised to the bench, and from that time until in 1846 the spontaneous voice 
of the people, expressed by the votes of every member of both branches of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 321 

our Legislature, called him to the gubernatorial chair, he continued ps a 
Judge at law, a Judge of the Court of Appeals, or as a Chancellor in 
Equity, to perform hiB judicial functions in the highest tribunals of the 
State. To the execution of these functions he brought a mind well stored 
with legal lore— unwearied industry — invincible patience and persever- 
ance — great natural abilities and stainless integrity. No man was freer 
from prejudice — none firmer in his opinions, or maintained them with 
more urbanity and consideration for the opmions of others. Truth was 
his object, and he never, against his convictions, or to show his intellectual 
strength, contended merely for victory. The most inexperienced member 
of the bar, in addressing him, was sure of an encouraging hearing and a 
fair, impartial consideration of his arguments, while he enforced the rules 
and maintained the decorum and dignity of the court. His manner was 
so mild, and his firmness so gentle, that the most sensitive feelings were 
not wounded — the most irritable could not take offence. The examination 
of witnesses before him was always conducted with a due regard to the 
cause of truth and justice. The modest, the diffident, and the candid 
were protected— the reluctant, or equivocating, subjected to the full rigor 
of a searching scrutiny. Nothing could exceed the impartiality with 
which, as a Judge at law, he laid the evidence in a cause before a jury, or 
the candor with which, as a Chancellor, he determined on it for himself. 
In all ordinary business of the court he was prompt and decisive. In cases 
of complexity or difficulty, he was patient and slow in coming to his con- 
clusions, but when they were once formed he adhered to them with great 
firmness. This, however, was the firmness of a clear and self-relying mind, 
devoted to the right; and, in any matter that he had adjudicated, brought 
again on appeal before him, no Judge ever lent a more willing ear to the 
arguments urged against his own opinion, and if, on full reconsideration, 
he was satisfied he had been in error, no man was ever more magnanimous 
in acknowledging that error, and in giving his reasons for changing his 
opinion, and agreeing to the reversal of his previous judgment. He was 
seldom wrong, but he claimed no patent of infallibility, and was not only 
willing, but glad to correct a mistake. When, after tasking all the ener- 
gies of his mind, he remained satisfied that he was right, no power on 
earth could have induced him to let go his integrity. He was tried, well 
tried, in times of the deepest excitement, when many of his nearest and 
dearest friends, who held opinions different from his own, and with whom 
he might have been happy to agree, pressed their views earnestly and 
zealously upon him, he had formed his opinion on the clearest dictates of 
his own conscience, and to these dictates he unostentatiously and inflexi- 
bly adhered. He knew that, before his country, when excitement had 
passed away, and finally before his God, he must be tried on the truth 
and purity of his own correctness; and he has reaped his reward. The 
respect of the good and the wise clustered around him. His country 
spontaneovisly crowned him with her highest honoi-s; and when advancing 
age caused him to withdraw from public life, followed him to his retreat 
with her cordial well-doue and best wishes. 
He has been taken from us, and has gone to receive the recompense of 

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322 ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. 

all his labors. We shall no more, in this world, see that manly form, or 
listen to the accents of that paternal voice. But though dead he still 
speaketh in his high example — in his recorded judgments— in his wisdom; 
embalmed in the records of our courts. As lawyers or as judges, let us 
strive to imitate him in all his noble qualities — let us strive to guard from 
every profane touch the hallowed flame that burns on the altar of justice, 
and to transmit the sacred principles to which he devoted himself, unim- 
paired to our latest posterity. 

Mesolved, That the bar of South Carolina, attendant on the Court of 
Errors, and on the Courts of Appeal, now in session, deeply deplore the 
death of the Honorable David Johnson. While he remained with us he 
was an honor and an ornament to the profession. We looked to him and 
to the dignities which he had achieved and worn so nobly, as the just re- 
ward of indefatigable industry, high talents and unsullied integrity. We 
pointed to him as an encouragement to the studious advocate, and as a 
model of judicial excellence. We admired and loved him while he lived, 
we mourn for him now he is dead; we will cherish and revere his memory. 

2. That we very respectfully tender our sincere condolence to the be- 
reaved members of his family, and beg leave to assure them of our sincere 
sympathy. 

3. That these proceedings be presented to the Judges of the Court of 
Errors, with the request that the same be entered on their records. 

The preamble and the resolutions were seconded by James L. 
Petigru, Esq., with the remark that, although the eulogy they em- 
bodied was high, the consciences of all present would testify that it 
was well deserved. 

The preamble and resolutions were then unanimously adopted. 

At the opening of the Court of Errors, composed of all the Law 
and Equity Judges, at 10 o'clock A. M., the Attorney-General, in 
conformity with the third resolution, after a few touching remarks, 
presented the preamble and resolutions to the Court. 

On receiving the preamble and resolutions, the Hon. John B. 
O'Neall, President of the Court of Errors, as the organ of the Court, 
responded as follows: 

Gentlemen: — The inteiligeuce of the death of the great and good 
man of whom you have just spoken, has been to me, as well as to the 
other members of the court, no ordinary cause of grief. From me, as 
his friend and associate of many years, it may well be expected that 
I should testify of his great, his excelling worth. Before I do, may I 
be permitted to say, that to me, personally, David Johnson was more 
than a friend; had it not been for the difference of many years in our 
ages and services, I should have called him brother, with even more 
than a brother's love. I am sure I felt for him all that love, respect 
and reverence that I did for my own father. When I presented 
myself in May, 1814, to the Constitutional Court for examination as 
a student of law, he was the solicitor appointed on the course of ex- 
amination. From that time our friendship has been continued and 
unbroken. It is, therefore, with almost filial feelings I stand up to 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 323 

answer you, and to say of him, that full of years and glory, he has 
"finished his course." In his seventy-second j'ear, or having cona- 
pleted it by a few months, "like the ripe grain," he has been gath- 
ered into the garner of his Master. 

His life, OS «'e a?Z A"??o?<', was one eminent for usefulness. He was 
a native of Virginia. In Spartanburg District, South Carolina, where 
he resided after his removal from Virginia, lie the renjains of his 
father, Christopher Johnson, a Baptist preacher. His education was 
as good as an academy then furnished, but he niainly made himself 
the plain but forcible writer for which he was so remarkable. Look- 
ing at his portly person, his capacious head, his beautiful hand- 
writing, and his clear and forcible written opinions, I have often said 
to myself how much, in many respects, he is like George Wash- 
ington. 

He studied law with Judge Nott, then a lawyer, living in Union 
District, for four years, the period of study ihen prescribed for a law 
student not a graduate of a college; he read and reread tlie scanty 
legal libraries then in possession of even the most eminent. He has 
told me that a portion of his preparation was the reading carefully of 
the whole of Bacon's Abridgement. 

He was admitted to the bar in, I presume, 1805, or 1806. He was 
for several years the Ordinary of Union District, and resigned it to 
qualify himself to receive a fee of $100 to settle, as the lawyer of the 
administrator of the estate of John McCall, deceased. 

He was returned to the Legislature in 1812; and in the same ses- 
sion elected Solicitor of the Middle Circuit, in the place of David R. 
Evans, Esq., who had long filled the office, and who then resigned. 

He was then little known; his practice was not extensive. The 
case of Tucker and Stevens, 4 Eq. Rep., 532, he has told me was the 
only bill in equity which he ever filed. 

In December, 1815, at the age of thirty-three, he and Richard Gantt 
were elected Judges of the Law Court over the late Benj. C. Yance.y 
and Robert Starke, Esqs. 

By labor, continuous and untiring, he made himself one of the 
most accomplished Circuit Judges before whom I ever practiced. 
His opinions in the Constitutional Court were prepared with won- 
derful care, often written over three times. They thus became 
models of judicial arguments. 

He was one of the majority who declared at this place the Act of 
December, 1816, requiring the Judges to clear the dockets, uncon- 
stitutional, because it was passed wiih the amendment of the Consti- 
tution, No decision ever created such an excitement. An extra 
session of the Legislature in April, 1817, was convened to remedy the 
matter, and another law was passed to the same effect by it. Judge 
Johnson's mild and temperate opinion saved him from a loss of pop- 
ularity. His eminent friend and legal instructor, Judge Nott, received 
the largest measure of the displeasure of the Legislature. For, in the 
succeeding December, when the Judges resigned to be re-elect id 



324 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

under the increased salary, Judge Nntt was elected l)y a very slim 
majority, while his young associate and former pupil was almost 
unanimously chosen. 

In 1824, he, with Judges Nott and Colcock, was placed on the Ap- 
peal Bench, and performed its herculean labors until that Court wn 
abolished in I800. Having, with the late Judge Harper, gone upou 
that bench, in the places of Judges Nott and Colcock, in 1S30, I may 
be permitted to say, as the only survivor, that the terms of '30, '31, 
'32, '83, '34 and '35 demanded and received labor, attention and care 
far beyond anything which I have since experienced. In them, 
Judge Johnson performed a full part of the work, and as the Presi- 
dent of the Court war, as everywhere, fully equal to his duty. In 
December, 1835, he was placed, as I well know, much against his 
wish, on the Equity or Chancery Bench. He distrusted himself 
from his early want of training for that department of judicial labor, 
yet he performed the duties of a Chancellor admirably well. No 
Chancellor with whom I have been acquainted, better sustained 
himself, or more dignified or adorned his otRce. 

In 1846 he was elected and assumed the duties of Governor and 
Commander-in-Chief of the State; he desired this office as the crown- 
ing reward of his labors! It was unanimously conferred upon him. 
Its mauj' worrying duties he calmly and patiently performed. He 
was emphatically a civil magistrate; he had no military tact, yet he 
organized the brave Palmetto Regiment, with almost paternal care — 
acconipanied them to the border of the tState, and standing on the 
Augusta bridge, with streaming eyes, bade them farewell! He wel- 
comed Shields and Quitman as the leaders in battle of the sons of 
South Carolina, on their journey through this State, and made them 
feel that South Carolina and lier Chief Magistrate were worthy of 
their homage. He saw return the wasted but gallant remnant of 
those with whom he had parted as the hope of the State, and gave 
them a father's welcome. 

Since 1S48 he has been in retrement, and has suffered more from 
disease and accident than has fallen to the lot of most men. All 
these he bore with that noble, uncomplaining, patient fortitude, for 
which he was always so remarkable. But successive attacks of 
disease and injuries bowed his giant frame and subdued his iron will, 
and on Sunday, the 7th of January, he quietly, and in the full hope 
of peace — everlasting peace — passed from earth. His remains, on 
Monday, the 8th of January, were, in the grave yard at Unionville, 
placed by the side of his wife, in the presence of his numerous and 
devoted friends and children, and earth received and cuvered all that 
was mortal of David Johnson. 

Gone, forever gone, from us of earth, is the pure patriot, the just 
judge, the loved friend and the n\i\n ivho had not an enemi/ .' Take 
him all in all, we may well say of him. South Carolina will vainly 
seek his equal. He is the last of the judges of law a'ul e(]uity who 
were on the bench when I came upon it in 182S. All, all, are in the 



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325 



preseuce of the King of kings. His iniud was eminently judicial. 
His charges to the juries were plain, clear und short. He went 
upon the hench with the notion that the jury was to decide all 
questions of fact; but he soon learned that he must share with 
them the responsibilit3', and he never afterwards hesitated to place 
his opinion, both of the law and also of the facts, plainly before 
them. 

His opinions on the Constitutional Court, the Court of Appeals and 
the Court of Appeals in Equity', will speak for themselves, and who- 
ever reads them carefully will say that they will compare most favor- 
ably with those of the most eminent Judges of our great and grow- 
ing country. 

He was slow, and even reluctant, to begin a course of laborious rea- 
soning; but, when aroused, lie overthrew all opposing obstacles, and 
most clearly reached his conclusions. 

He bad no pride of opinion, no passion to gratify, no prejudice to 
turn him aside. Truth and justice were alike his objects. He freely 
surrendered his opinions whenever error was presented to his mind. 
If he had a fault, it was that he yielded his opinions too readily. 

His very nature was kindness and benevolence; he never wilfully 
injured a human being. As a friend, he was sincere and unchang- 
ing. As a husband and father, no man was more kind and just. His 
letters to me, after the burning, in a house, of twenty of his negro 
children, was a most touchingly eloquent expression of a master's 
grief for the poor little ones thus destroyed. 

As citizen, officer and neighbor, he fulfilled every duty and met 
every expectation. Wherever he lived, wherever he was known or 
seen, he was loved. In his grave, he will be remembered; and you, 
brethren, as you run your eyes over his recorded labors, will drop 
many a tear upon the pages, and rise from them to reverence and 
perpetuate, in your hearts, the memory of the great and good David 
Johnson. 

Your motion is granted. The clerk will spread your preamble and 
resolutions on the records of the Court of Errors, and furnish copies 
to the children of the deceased, and also for publication, and for the 
State Reporter. 

The court will adjourn until to-morrow at 10 o'clock, so that, in 
silent sadness, we may reflect upon the death of our friend and 
brother. 

In further testimonial of respect to the deceased, the court then ad- 
journed until 10 o'clock, A. M. this day. 

Beaufort, So. Ca., \ 
17th January, 1855. j 
My Dear Sir : 

I this moment closed your noble and eloquent reply to the resolu- 
tions of the bar of Charleston on the death of the late venerable David 
Johnson. Your remarks seem to have come so direct, warm and 



326 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

glowiug from your heart that I trust you will excuse me for saying 
that they have found their way direct to mine; and I cannot refrain 
from addressing you a line expressing the sympathy I feel in every 
word that you have so feelingly and so eloquently said upon the sol- 
emu occasion referred to. As a younger member of the bar, 1 feel 
that one to whom we have been accustomed to look up to and regard 
as one of the fathers of the law has been called away from us forever. 
I uever had the honor nor pleasure to practice before the late ("Chan- 
cellor Johnson, nor even to make a motion before him; but I knew 
him as well as the difTerences of our ages and the distance of our res- 
idences would allow, and he impressed me with a degree of respect 
and regard that 1 delight to acknowledge. Just before I was admit- 
ted to the bar I chanced to spend a month or more in the same house 
with the venerated deceased, and was permitted to enjoy such de- 
lightful intercourse with him that I feel it has been of advantage to 
me ever since. He was so kind and fatherly in his manner towards 
me, he was so full of information on most subjects, and so willing to 
impart it to me, that he completely carried my aflfections along with 
him when we parted, and from that time to this he has held them- 
Whenever we met afterwards I felt his kindness, and learned more 
and more to appreciate his many substantial virtues. 

I trust, my dear sir, you will excuse me for the liberty I have taken 
in expressing my private feelings to you, as I have done; but from 
"the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh," and I only wish I had 
it in my power to throw upon his grave a chaplet worthy of the vir- 
tues, the learning, the gooodness, the public and private worth of 
David Johnson. 

"With considerations of the highest respect for you personally, per- 
mit me to subscribe myself, 

Very respectfully and sincerely yours, 

JOS. DAN'L POPE. 
Hia Honor Judge O'Neall, Charleston. 




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THE 



Annals of Newberry, 

HISTORICAL, BIOGRAPHICAL AND ANECDOTICAL ; 

ALSO 

RELIGIOUS. MEDICAL AND LITERARY: 

PART SECOND, 



BY 



JOHN A. CHAPMAN, A. M. 



NEWBERRY, S- C: 

AuLL & HousEAL, Publishers. 

1892. 



THE FRIENDS AND THEIR MIGRATION TO OHIO. 

The readers of the Annals of Newberry will be glad to 
find, I think, the followiug supplementary chapter to Judge 
O'NealFs work, contributed by Mr. David Jones, of Ohio, 
a relative of Lambert J. Jones, Esq., of Newberry. The 
chapter is strictly supplementary and not a continuation in 
time of the former work: 

"I have read one very interesting narrative or history of 
Newberry District written, as I have been informed, by the 
late John Belton O'Neall, a resident of said district, from 
birth until death, embracing a period of more than sixty 
years, during a long portion of which he held the oflfice 
of Supreme Judge of the State. Having learned that an- 
other history of said district is in preparation by Mr. John 
A. Chapman, I will furnish, at his request, some account 
of the most prominent families who left there near the 
beginning of this century, and contributed to the peopling 
of three counties, namely, Miami, Warren and Clinton, in the 
State of Ohio. 

"I feel interested in the task because my parents and ma- 
ternal grandparents came from there, bringing those grand traits 
of the pioneer, namely, industrj^, enterprise, fortitude and in- 
domitable courage. I know that the present inhabitants of 
Newberry District will not feel dishonored when they learn 
something of what has been wrought by her emigrant cit- 
izens and their descendants. 

"In O'Neall's history we are told in part of the Friends, 
or Quakers, who resided in the district, the exodus of whom 
and others between the years 1800 and 1810, reflexively 
decimated the district. He says, also, that they held a 
large quarterly meeting on Bush River, where he had often 
seen more than five hundred Friends assembled. 

"There must have been some great moving cause or causes 
that induced such an exit in so short a period. O'Neall 
ascribes it to their repugnance to the 'peculiar institution' 
of the South, together with frightful predictions of war 
and carnage made by an itinerant minister of this church. 



330 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

named Zachiiry Dicks. During tbo yoar 1808 tbi.-^ minister 
miulo a visit to ^Vrightsborough monthly meeting, in Georgia, 
an integral jnirt of Bush River tjuarterly meeting. He there 
told the Friends of a territic internecine war not far ia 
the fiiture. during which many Tiien like tho-<e in the 
Apocalypse would liee to the mountains and call on those 
mountains to hide them. With reference to the time of 
fulfilment, he said the child was then bora that would see 
it; thus intimating the time, not as immediate, bnt not very 
far off. He also advised them to leave there, which they 
did. Forty-eight years after came the predicted war. I 
heard this account more than forty years ago from a man 
who was at the meeting. From Wrightsborough. Z. Dicks 
went to Bush Biver meeting, held in a well made house 
erected only live years before with the full calculation of a 
long continued occupancy. I give his iirst words there as 
related by a dear aunt of mine who was present, and was 
just blooming into womanhood: 'O, Bush River! Bush River! 
How hath thy beauty faded away, and gloomy darkness 
eclipsed thy day!' Going into particulars, he depicted the 
silence and loneliness that would attend that house after its 
abandonment by those who had erected it; that herbage would 
ere long grow in its now well beaten paths. I did not 
understand that he advised removal here as at "Wrights- 
borough, but only foretold it. Indeed, it did not suffer 
during the war like the other place, for I have learned 
no hostile troops came near it. 

'"Friend Dicks must have been at this time rather elderly, 
for I am informed that not long before the Revolutioa he 
had been at Guilford, North Carolina, jmd foretold that 
war. Pointing to the walls of the meeting house he said 
its floors and walls would be stained with human blood. 
This was literally fulfilled, for, after the bloody battle of 
Guilford, the Friends carried the wounded soldiers, both 
British and American, into the house and performed for 
them the part of the good Samaritan; the stains of whose 
blood, though faded, were on its walls many years after- 
wards. To those who are skeptical as to Z. Dicks' pro- 
phetical attainments, I will only say that he was at least a 
'good guesser.' Whatever effect his (Dicks) visit may have 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 331 

had in causing the Friends' removal, other causes co- 
operated. Those living east of the Alleghanies had looked 
upon them as a barrier against savage invasion, and also 
as one against removing to an unexplored and unknown 
savage wilderness. Such had been the view until the ar 
rival of tlie time thus described by the poet, when, 

'' 'Booue had -with bold adventurous tread, 

Beyond the mountain barriers prest; 
And saw a richer landscape spread 

In the broad valley of the West. 
Fiction had lent her magic hand 
To paint that second Fairy land; 
For it was drawn a clime as fair 

As youthful fancy's brightest dream; 

And all who heard might jnstly deem 
Another Eden blooming there.' 

"Allowing much for exaggeration, the description was still 
tempting enough, with the first-named cause, to produce the 
exodus which began soon after Dicks' visit. I must reuaark, 
however, that this exodus was far from being confined to 
the Friends. The Barretts, Elmores, Halls, Dennys, Camp- 
bells, Laytons and others, who removed during that period, 
were not members of the Friends' Church, and many of 
them were not of any. The first removal, as well as I 
can find, took place some months after Dicks' visit there. 
This was John Jay, the only Jay mentioned in the Annals, 
though with him came seven sons and three daughters. 
They came to Miami County, I think, during the autumn 
of 1803. They found Friends from Guilford, North Caro- 
lina, who had come the year before, and as all belonged 
to the same yearly meeting, namely, Guilford, North Caro- 
lina, the matter of removal seems to have been well un- 
derstood between them. The same may be said of Wrights- 
borough Friends in Georgia, for they came in great num- 
bers, leaving the parent meeting in the same condition as 
that of Bush River. 

"I will now give an account of some of the most prom- 
inent persons who came from Newberry and settled in the 
three counties previously mentioned. Many of those emigrants 
being unknown or forgotten by the author of the Annals of 
Newberry, are not mentioned by him, and we need not 



333 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

wonder, for lio was a boy at tho time of their emigration. 
The traits of some, however, are given with almost sur- 
prising accuracy; and could he have known their subsequent 
lives it would no doubt have given him much satisfaction, 
and would have been a supplement to the Annals. 

"The tirst I'll mention is Thomas Pearson, 'Little Old 
Tommy,' who lived to the greatest age of any who came 
from Newberry, besides being the oldest emigrant to his 
township and, as near as I can learn, county. Born in 1728, 
lie was older than the Father of his Country, a fact which 
seemed to attach additional importance to him. In early life 
he lived in Philadeljihia, following the trade of saddler and 
harness- maker. Years before, and during the Revolution, he 
and his family resided in Newberry District and bad their 
full share of its honors. Once, when a captive, his ene- 
mies required his service in saddlery and harness work, re- 
gardless of his lack of tools. He answered them by saying 
that 'Neither wise men nor fools can work without tools,' 
the piquancy of which caused them to laugh and excuse 
him. He appears to have occupied the first seat m the 
'Common Meetings' of Friers ds. A granddaughter of his 
told me that once during the solemn quiet of a meeting a 
partially insane woman came in with fruit in her apron 
and going up to him said, 'Here, Mr. Pearson, I'll give you 
the apples if you will preach to-day.' Being a harmless 
person they got rid of her in a quiet way, but whether 
or not they regarded her interruption as a rebuke upon 
their silent worship I was not iniormed. I think it was in 
1805 or 180G, that Father Pearson left Newberry with a 
numerous retinue of children, grandchildren and one great- 
grandchild. Coming directly to Miami County they pitched 
their teots in proximity to the Jays and Jenkinses, who had 
preceded them. It was not ma^y years before his many 
descendants were settled comfortably around him and he 
saw teeming fields, in place of dark, tangled forests. His 
wife died, and, though in advanced age, he took another. 
A few years more and his walk became tremulous, his eyes 
grew dim, and his hearing blunted. The writer saw him 
in 1820, when he had Old Dodson's Three Warnings: — 'he 
was lame, and deaf, and blind.' He coi'ld walk only with 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 832 

support on both sides, could hear only by loud speaking 
in his ear, both day and night were alike to him. In this 
lamentable condition we may well suppose time hung heavy 
on his hands. Upon asking what time it was, if answered 
ten o'clock, he would say and repeat, 'Ten o'clock, ten 
o'clock,' striving, but in vain, to impress it upon his mem 
ory, for it would not be long before he repeated the ques- 
tion. The author, child as he was, pitied him whose lamp 
of life, so nearly gone out, seemed to be leaving him rather 
impatient. At this time the great human butcher, but now a 
captive of Europe, whose 

" 'Evil deeds were writ in gore, 
Nor written thus in vain; 
Whose triumphs told of fame no more, 
Or deepened every stain;' 

was languishing like Prometheus upon his sea-girt rock, say 
ing sorrowfully to his followers: 'I. once dictated to four or 
five secretaries at once; I was then Napoleon; I am now no 
longer anything; my senses, my faculties, forsake me; I no 
longer live, I only exist.' How much the weight of blood 
upon his soul distressed Napoleon, we cannot know; but we 
do know he had his sight and hearing, which old Thomas 
Pearson had not. In natural ability they bear no comparison, 
neither did they in ambition. The first died in the calmness 
and quiet of Christian resignation; the second a few months 
after with his spirit deliriously engaged in the strife of battle 
and the rage of tempests around him. 

"A short time after the above-described sight of Old Thomas, 
the author heard a grandson of his announce his death and 
burial, which elicited but little remark, seeming to be acqui- 
esced in because of his relief from his lamentable condition. 
Of some of his relatives I will write hereafter, but will now 
take up the names seriatim of persons, of whom I know some- 
thing, mentioned in the Annals of Newberry, on pages 31, 32 
and 33,* who emigrated to Ohio. 

"David Jenkins and family came to Miami County, Ohio> 
in ISOo. He had married Martha Evans a few years after 
the Revolution and brought several children with him. He 
made a good selection of land which he cultivated to advan- 

* Part I., 28, 29 and 30. 



334 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY, 

tage. He built a hewed log house of good size, which is 
considered the oldest one in his (Monroe) Township. He reared 
two sons and four daughters, not one of whom, I think, was 
born in Ohio. They all did well except one son, who became 
intemperate. A very quiet and unassuming little man, he per- 
formed his part well and died in good old age about the year 
1842. 

"Benjamin Pearson, a relative of Old Thomas', emigrated 
about the same time as David Jenkins, being nearly his age. 
He was the father of seven sons and two daughters, but few 
of whom were born in Ohio. They all married to good ad- 
vantage; all prospered and lived to good age, but none of 
them are now living. 

"Of William Pearson but very little is now known, and his 
descendants do not appear to have belonged to the Friends. 

"Robert Evans, at least one of that name, went with his 
family to Tennessee. His brother Joseph, not mentioned in 
the Annals, came with his family to this county. Being of 
an enterprising turn, he purchased land on the west fork of 
Stillwater River, located a village. West Milton, there in 
1807. This site was a good selection, being seventy-five feet 
above low water mark; in proximity to several perennial 
springs that poured over precipices nearly, or quite, fifty feet 
perpendicular, affording ample power for the propulsion of 
machinery. Evans built, I think, the second mill on Still- 
water, the first being by Frederick Yount, from North Caro- 
lina. The scenery here was grand and almost inspiring. 
The towering, umbrageous forests; the magnificent cascades; 
the slopes and grassy banks of Stillwater, might make it seem 
to the imaginative beholder as the place where the queen 
Yiolenta led her fairy troupes in their mazy moonlight 
dances. On the first sale of lots the buyers were few and the 
prices low. Two boys rode two steers to the sale, which would 
have seemed singular at Newberry. Evans started the first 
store and postoflfice on the place and continued them until 
after the war of 1812, when he went to Cincinnati to engage 
in greater business. About 1828 he returned to Milton; 
opened a store which he continued a number of years, dying 
of abdominal dropsy in 1837; having, a number of years before, 
lost his risrht amonsf Friends. Father Evans' four daughters 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



335 



and sou were, as near as I can learn, born on Bush River. 
They were well educated and highly accomplished, but, like 
their father, left the Friends. The eldest daughter was such 
an admirer of Paradise Lost that, 'tis said, it induced her 
father to name his village after its illustrious author. Evans 
was a man of more than ordinary ability, who, it was said, 
could see as far into a trade as any man. He was a full- 
handed man in Cincinnati, but the shrinkage of currency and 
of values after the war of 1812, so reduced him as to cause 
his return to Milton. His family was for years what might 
be called 'Quaker Aristocrats,' when disowned. He possessed 
much courage, decision and fortitude. Whilst sitting at his 
bedside one night during his last sickness, at his request I 
read a newspaper article on the machinery propelling powers 
of animal magnetism. When done he said, 'Young people will 
live to see wonderful things in mechanical and physical science, 
which I have not seen.' A prediction fully realized. Not one 
of his descendants now lives in this county, but a grandson 
is a millionaire in St. Louis, Missouri. 

"John, Joseph and William Wright, next mentioned in the 
Annals, settled and died, I think, (except John, who died in 
Newberry,) in Clinton County, Ohio, in Indiana and Illinois. 
Two other brothers not mentioned, namely, Thomas and Isaac 
Wright, came West also, where, in 1834, the author saw 
Isaac, his great uncle. He was then a little, old, dingy man 
and said to be intemperate. 

"James Brooks must have died in early times, but two sons 
who came with him, Nimrod and John, were practical farmers, 
both rearing many children and living to good age. 

"Joseph Thompson came with a number of children, some 
of whom were married, and settled in the region called Lud- 
low's Creek, a tributary of the Stillwater. He did not, how- 
ever, live long at his new home, but his children did. One of 
his sons was a preacher, though never recommended, awhile 
among the Friends, and next among the New Lights, or 
Christian Church. But few of them belong now to the 
Friends. 

"James Patty must have been the father of James, David 
and Charles Patty, who came also from Newberry, as did 
three married sisters. The author well knew the last three 



33G 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEBY. 



Pattys, but not the iirst; so be must bave died not many 
years after arriviog. James Patty bad a bu-ge portiou of 
'suacifer iti iiiodo,'' and perliaps mucb 'forfitcr in /r.' Sncli 
were bis pleasantness and equanimity tbat 

'■ 'Aloiijx tho oool, sequestered vale of Ufe 
He kept the noiseless tenor of his way.' 

"His marriage with Anna Brown at Bush River not lonsr 
before their removal is said to have been partly caused by 
the jocular recommendation of some, or one of the young 
folks. James was not acquainted with her, but had seen her 
at church and noticed that she limped a little in her walk. 
After liearing her fitness for him described he answered with 
characteristic gravity: 'Who is this Anna Brown? Is she the 
girl that when she walks goes one 2'o«»(f fenf After mar- 
riage he found that she would ^Stomi lifce March, but not icoep 
like April." It seemed through their whole marital life that 
he was as proper a mate for her as Socrates was for Xantippe. 
On one occasion I heard of when she and her husband went 
to a magistrate's office to sign a deed of land conveyance; sha 
was asked in private by the magistrate, as the law required, 
if she did this signing under her own will, or under fear of 
her husband. 'No,' said she, almost indignant, 'I ain't afraid 
of Jimps.' 'That's one time,' said Squire T.. laughing, 'that 
I know she told the truth.' 

"She, however, like others had good qualities. She brought 
him four sons and five daughters, only two of whom are now 
living. The sons were of more than ordinary ability, and 
three of them followed professions, all showing that they had 
not received bad maternal training. One anecdote of James 
Patty is similar to that of John Wright told in the Annals. 
For many years he rode a mule to West Branch, whose hybrid 
neighings or brayings often broke upon the stillness of the 
meeting. Forgetting the mule once he walked liome and 
when told of it was taken aVack; but whether he said 'Dads 
me, Anna!' or 'O pshaw!' I am not informed. In conclusion, 
his whole life was economical, quiet and peaceful. He died in 
1833 and his widow about the year 1840. 

"Gabriel McCoole, with his live sons and two daughters, 
came here, I think, in 1800. His wife dying some years after. 



ANNALS OF XEWBEBRY. 



he spent his last days among his children and grandchildren. 
He was a highly conscientious and good old man, but his sons 
partook far more of the ways of the world. One of them, 
Thomas, who was married to a daughter of old 'Tanner 
Thompson,' [see Annals] in Newberry District, had a hankering 
as well as an aptitude for office. He served for many years 
as Squire, in what was called the 'Creek Nation,' composed 
mainly of NewVjerry people and their descendants. If he did 
not exhibit the wisdom and legal acumen of a Hale he tried 
to the digriity of a Mansfield. Many of the suits which he 
decided were unique in their character; two of which I will 
briefly relate. One F. Jones, not a Newberry but Georgia 
Jones, the laziest man 'in all creation,' had rented a small 
farm to W. Friend, reserving a small house in which he lived, 
and a favorite apple tree. Their residences were near to- 
gfther and for a time things went well. After awhile Jones, 
who, though too lazy to work, was not too lazy to get mad, 
became offended at something, and as Friend's geese had eaten 
a few of his reserved apples lying under the tree, he sought 
satisfaction by suing him. Friend, for damages. Spectators, 
as well as witnesses, attended the trial, which, being managed 
by the parties, was rather devoid of declarations, replications 
and argued technicalities, resting entirely upon its proved 
merits. When the one-sided and almost infinitesimal testimony 
was ended, Squire McCoole put on his dignity and slowly 
patting the floor with his foot to keep time, thus gave his 
decision: 'I hardly know how to apply law to this case, so I 
will just strike at Jusfas. I decide that W. Friend pay F. Jones 
six and one-fourth cents damage, and each party pay his own 
costs.' The guffaws of the spectators can be better imagined 
than described. The defendant was well pleased. He, having 
made little or no cost, had little or none to pay, while the 
plaintiff had several dollars. He, the plaintiff, was the only 
one there that could see nothing to laugh at. Could any one 
have decided that case better thaii did old Squire McCoole? 

"The other case was between a German and a Tennessean. 
It was hard to tell which of them was most tricky. Lawyers 
managed the case, and, of course, there was much wordy 
warring. One of them being more prolix than pointed, the 
magistrate's patience gave out and he stopped him short with, 
2 A 



338 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

'Well, Samuel, I guess you've spoke about long enough; I 
guess I'll have to give judgment against you.' 'Why,' said 
Samuel in much affected surprise, 'haven't I proved thus and 
so?' 'Yes,' answered the Squire, 'you've proved it, but I don't 
believe your witnesses.' The discomfited attorney felt about 
small enough to crawl into an auger hole. Squire McCoole's 
decisions were believed to be generally correct and were but 
seldom reversed through a long official course. His chirogra- 
phy was almost unreadable and may have resembled Senator 
Ohoate's, whose writing was said to look like the marks made 
by a spider, after crawling out of an inkstand. 

"Squire McCoole reached good old age and died in Iowa 
but a few years ago. I may mention that Gabriel, his father, 
died on Stillwater not far from the year 1828. None of his 
•other sons merit being mentioned. 

"John Coate is next mentioned ia the Annals, but I think 
''John' is a mistake. Marmaduke Coate, with six sons, came 
here among the earlier emigrants. His sons, Moses, Henry 
and Samuel, having married at Newberry. His other sons, 
John, James and Jesse, married here. They all became pros- 
perous farmers, reared numerous families, some dying at ad- 
vanced age; all dying in membership with Friends. Henry 
Coate became a most useful and efficient blacksmith, making 
sickles for many years, supplying that desideratum to the 
farmers of Stillwater Valley. He amassed a handsome estate 
and left it to his children. Old Marmaduke, the father, did not 
live many years after coming here; so, little is known about 
him, but of his numerous descendants it may be said: They 
are an honor to Miami County and do no discredit to Newberry 
District. 

"Big Isaac Hollingsworth comes next, who is so graphically, 
though briefly, described on pages 32 and 33* of the Annals. 
He possessed great physical strength and unbounded courage 
During the Revolution when a British officer approached his 
corn crib he was forbidden entrance. The officer drew his 
sword and threatened. Big Isaac went to him, took the sword 
from him, saying: 'Thus far shalt thou go, but no farther.' 
The officer succumbed. Once, when he was about starting to 
meeting, a poor Irishman accosted him desiring employment. 

* Part I., 29, 30. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 339 

Isaac having nothing else for him to df) set him to moving a 
pile of stones. On returning from meeting and finding th-i 
job done he had him to move the stones back. After which 
he paid him. While on the road to Ohio he was one day- 
sitting upon a log while his horses were eating. A man came 
along and asked him where he was moving. 'I am not mov- 
ing,' said Isaac, 'I am sitting still.' 'Well, where are you 
bound then?' 'I am not bound at all,' said he, 'I am a free 
man.' The discomfited ma'n passed on. When reprimanded 
by his daughter for his uncourteous answers he naively an- 
swered that he did not know that it was any of that man's 
business where he was going. Five daughters and three sons, 
six of whom were married, accompanied him, making quite a 
company. All of them, except two daughters and with hus- 
bands, settled near him in Miami County. There amongst 
wolves, deer and other wild animals, they built their rude 
cabins in the 

" 'Dark, mephitic tangled woods.' 

"Those woods or forests they began to level; to build cabins 
for shelter and clear the lands for cultivation. Log rollings, 
which I need not describe, became common. The practice of 
wearing suspenders, vulgarly called gallowes, was then coming 
into vogue among the young men. Big Isaac looked upon 
this innovation as savoring of pride, and as he possessed ^forti- 
ter in re' without ^suaviter in modo,' when he met the young men 
at log rollings or stable raisings, with suspenders unprotected 
by coat or jacket, he would, when opportunity offered, thrust 
his forefinger under one of them and giving a jerk the button 
had to fly. It was useless for the boys to get angry on 
such occasions, so their plan was to watch and avoid him. 
Yet with all his exterior rudeness he had a good and tender 
heart; more internal than external piety. This I have learned 
from his children. He used to say that his crops never grew 
better than when Susie, his wife, (mentioned on pages 33 and 
34* of the Annals) was away from home preaching. By which 
it seems he gave her all necessary assistance. He died of 
pleurisy in 1809, aged about 61; and though having enjoyed 
but three years residence, the opening in the forest, the 
buildings and fences long remained as the work of his hands. 

* Part I., 31, 32. 



340 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

"His second son Joel merits a place in NewbeiTy history. 
Born in that district in 1778 he married there and came to 
Ohio with two children. Possessing the size, strength and 
courage of his father, he had more suaviter in his deport- 
ment, making himself agreeable to every one. Of his five 
stalwart sons, none were quite equal to him, and the man was 
not known who could break him down at the handspike. The 
forest soon showed his power and industry, for it melted away, 
succeeded by teeming fields of grain and grass. Being of an 
adventurous spirit he made frequent voyages to New Orleans 
on flat-bottomed boats loaded with pork and flour, for himself 
and neighbors. These enterprises were attended with much 
hardship and danger, yet Joel appeared to delight in them. 
During the year 1830 he, with his wife, returned on a visit 
to Newberry and hunted up their friends and relatives yet 
living. Boating and clearing having measurably ceased, Joel's 
rather restless spirit induced him to move again and settle in 
the Indiana forests. There he cleared another farm and lived 
until near his 80th year, when one day being engaged in 
butchering and rendering lard, he fell upon the floor and died, 
perhaps of heart disease. I believe he is the only Newberry 
man emigrant that met with instantaneous death. His elder 
brother William and younger brother John had left Ohio 
long before he did and the deaths of the three occurred 
within three months of each other, the news of w hich was 
received by their only surviving sister all in one day. 

"Of Isaac Hollingsworth's daughters, namely, Eachel, Ruth, 
Keziah, Sarah and Susanna, the four first were married at 
Bush River, and the last, Susanna, in Ohio. She married 
Elisha Jones, a twin brother of Elijah Jones mentioned on 
page 115 of the Annals. As Elisha moved to Ohio in 180-3, 
Susanna the following year, and they married soon after, it 
looks as if they might have made the marital agreement in 
Newberry District. They settled on land joining their father's, 
and being young, courageous and industrious, a farm was 
opened and plenty was smiling around them. Nearly eleven 
years of married life had passed and they had become the 
parents of five children, when a terrible event occurred, which 
no human prescience could discern, nor human power avert. 
They each had a saddle which hung together against the wall. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 341 

One night they awoke and saw a bright spot on Susanna's sad- 
dle. They first thought a hunter was passing with a torch ; 
but the bright spot did not move and a visit to the window 
disclosed no torch. What could this mean? they wondered. 
Not long afterwards, about 10 o'clock in the morning, a small 
cloud was passing southeastward. Its ominous rumblings were 
heard while passing and it went over the house. Susanna had 
stepped to the open door with something in her hand, when a 
tremendous peal was heard, not only there, but far over the 
country, and she fell lifeless on the floor. 

" 'The fiery bolt from upper air, 

Attendant of the rain, 
Which oft assumes the Ash to tear 

And Oak to rive iu twain; — 
Descending from its lofty height, 

To kill instead of save, 
With speed of thoiight and matchless might, 

Had hurled her to the grave.' 

"This occurred in 3817, not far from the time of her brother- 
in-law, Elijah Jones' death. On the GOth anniversary of Susan- 
na's funeral, two surviving children, too young to have retained 
her image, went to her grave to droj^ their tears there and 
etch anew the moss-grown inscription on her tombstone. I 
may further add that she was the youngest daughter of Su- 
sanna Hollingswoi'th mentioned in the Annals, and that I, the 
author, am her youngest child. Further, I may mention tho 
remarkable fact that the brother, Joel, and the sister, Susanna^ 
met instantaneous deaths. Newberry, I believe; furnishes no 
more such examples. 

"Before Isaac Hollingsworth's family is dismissed I must give 
a short after-biography of his wife, my most revered maternal 
grandmother. Left a widow, as before stated, in 1809, at the 
age of o4, she lived among her children the remainder of her 
life. She made religious visits after her husband's death, one 
of which was, I think, to Newberry, others to the East. Pos- 
sessing an excellent memory and having long experience, she 
was an excellent conversationalist. With great interest have I 
heard her tell the fearful tales of the Revolution in Newberry 
District; of Hal Foster, the desperate Tory and criminal, who, 
refusing to heed the warning her father had given, was shot 



342 ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 

through the head after peace was made. Her piety, equanim- 
ity and kindliness, particularly towards her grandchildren, were 
such that they loved her with the most ardent affection, be- 
lieving that no grandmother could be better. One Sunday 
evening in July, 1830, she went on horseback from her daugh- 
ter's residence to that of her son-in-law, his wife being dead. 
On the way she said to her accompanying young grandson : 'I 
am going to thy father's just to die.' This was said with as much 
calmness of feeling as though she had said I am going there 
to live. The next day she was taken ill. To her son Joel M'ho 
visited her she said 'I am going, but not as speedily as I could 
wish.' Death came to her as a friend. Near the close of the 
week she died and was buried on the following Sunday. Her 
sister, Charity Cook, mentioned in the Annals, traveled exten- 
sively in the ministry. She once crossed the Atlantic, visiting 
the Friends' churches in England and Ireland. In the last 
country she had an interview with the Irish giant, Patrick 
O'Brien, who respectfully received her testimony. She died in 
1820, but the particulars thereof are unknown. Another sis- 
ter, Kirial Hanks, not mentioned in the Annals, a widow, came 
hero with three sons and two daughters. Her second son, James, 
became a school teacher and most efficient surveyor. Her eldest 
daughter, Mary, possessed more than ordinary ability, was use- 
ful in the church, but was the only one of the children not 
disowned. 

"Judge O'Neall appears to have forgotten Big Isaac Hollings- 
worth's brothers, namely, James, George and Nathan, who went 
also to Ohio; the two first bringing faciilies. Their descend- 
ants were strong, hardy and adventurous, spreading themselves 
over portions of Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. Of all the Newberry 
emigrants none were equal to the Hollingsworths in physical 
strength and none excelled them in courage. Being of peace- 
able natures they sought no quarrels, and being of superior 
prowess, quarrels were not sotight with them. I do not know 
of any criminal record that has the name of a Hollingsworth 
upon its pages; which is honorable to them, though many are 
not now members of the Friends' Church. 

"William O'Neall, whose name in the Annals follows that of 
Isaac Hollingsworth, was a Quaker minister somewhat advanced 
in years when he left Newberry. He seems to have dro2:>ped 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 343 

the O' from his name, for, in Ohio, he and his decendants have 
Neall as their surname. Two sons, James and Mahlon, came 
with him and James became a preacher at an early awe, livincy 
and dying a very humble and j)ious man. William was em- 
ployed to teach some of the earliest schools; but reallv was 
better qualified to preach the gospel than to teach the sciences, 
as the following anecdote will show: A young full p-rown man 
took a sum in long division to him which he had worked out, 
desiring to know if it was done correctly. After examining it 
the teacher handed it back, saying with serious candor : 'Well, 
Jonathan, it looks, very pretty, but I really don't know whether 
it is done right or not.' His school government was not, like 
that of Richard Clegg, of Newberry, sustained by the birch, but 
by pleasantness and kindness, by which he generally succeeded. 
It indeed took a hard-featured boy to violate the rules of so old 
and good a teacher. Once, however, they trespassed so far upon 
his forbearance that he told them 'if they did not behave he 
would bring Granny tomorrow.' This seems to have had the 
desired effect, for one of the offenders said many years after- 
wards, 'I thought if Granny had to come and see my misbe- 
havior I'd quit right off.' This good old man, it was said, was 
once accosted by a presumptuous skeptic who said: 'Mr. Neall, 
I am an unbeliever in the Bible, but can deliver as good a dis- 
course as you, and if you do not believe me just listen and I'll 
convince you.' The old man assenting, he took his place and 
spoke his piece. Asking what he thought of it, the answer 
was: 'What thee has said is good enough, but it has come 
through a very dirty channel.' He died at an advanced age 
more than sixty years ago. 

"In following the Annals I mention only those with whom 
I've had personal or second-hand knowledge, and whose life 
here was worthy of a brief notice. 

"Samuel, David and William Miles, relatives, were worthy, 
industrious and prosperous farmers, who lived to good age, 
leaving behind them a numerous and enterprising posterity, 
many of whom are living in other and newer States. 

"Samuel Brown was a rather elderly man when he left New- 
berry. He was a man of more than ordinary ability, but rather 
too much governed by strong impulses that sometimes caused 
him trouble. He left, when removing, a son, Joshua, who de- 



344 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

parting from Quaker habits and teachings, went to Charleston 
and became quite rich by privateering during the last war with 
England. Being elated with riches, he treated his venerable 
father, who in after years returned to Newberry and then went 
to see him, with such coldness and neglect that it greatly 
wounded the old man's heart. Returning to Ohio, he was said 
to have spoken condemnatorily of the manner by which his son 
had obtained his wealth ; uttering the trite but rather vulgar 
expression 'that what comes in over the devil's back generally 
goes out under his belly.' In after life this was fulfilled, the 
sheriff selling even his bed to pay his creditors. He brought 
another son, Samuel, to Ohio, who also caused more sorrow 
than joy to him. He was the father of Anna Brown, mentioned 
before as the wife of James Patty. He died in 1S27 at an 
advanced age. 

''William Mills lived and died a plain farmer in Warren 
County, Ohio. Charles Mills, not mentioned in the Annals, was 
educated at Newberry by John B. Mtichell and Richard Clegg. 
Coming to Ohio, he made school teaching the principal busi- 
ness of his life for a period of forty years. He was a good 
penman or scribe, and was remarkable for bis success in school 
government, causing his scholars to both respect and fear him. 
Some of his scholars were children of parents who had gone 
with him to the Newberry schools, and who always showed 
willingness to employ hitn in teaching. In his latter days he 
used to speak with pleasure of the positions bis many pupils 
occupied in different communities. He died in Indiana some 
twenty years ago, remembered with tho kindest regards by his 
few living scholars, Avhose hair is now whitened by age. 

"James, John, Benjamin and Samuel Coppock emigrated 
from NewbeiTy, with u;any more of that name, and settled in 
Miami County. Many of them did not retain their Society 
rights, but were nevertheless good citizens. Moses, son of James, 
was a very solid and useful member of the Friends' c5hurch, 
dying at an advanced age a few years ago. 

"Abel and James lusco were brothers. Abel was son-inlaw 
of Thomas Pearson mentioned near the first of these memoirs. 
He was remarkable for stuttering, and doubtlessly caused many 
a laugh at Newberry, as he afterwards did in Ohio. I've heard 
it told that while livinof at Newberry he was at a corn-shuck- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



345 



ing where a man who had been caught stealing a turkey kicked 
his dog. Not liking it, he said to the man, 'I don't even allow 
thee to say, tut, tut, tut -turkey to my dog.' I was told that 
at another corn-shucking, or husking, a man who had offended 
him accused him of having: ffiven him a blow and threatened 
prosecution. To this Abel replied whenever accused : 'Sh sh- 
sh-show the wound.' The men who were carrying away the 
shucks in the dark were much amused, and as no one saw him 
strike and he wouldn't own it, the matter had to drop. Abel 
more than fifty years ago died childless, and James' children 
being all girls the name Insco is now possessed only by his 
grandson, Insco Yount, and which being his first name, will at 
his death become extinct. 

"The Annals mention Jesse Spray, which may be a mistake. 
I well knew old Samuel Spray, who lived in another county. 
He was a minister who lived in the time of the Revolution, 
and one whom I have heard preach. His daughter Dinah, who 
was born in the South, was rather eminent as a minister, and 
often traveled as such. Both father and daughter have for 
many years been dead. 

"Samuel Tongue was not originally a Quaker. He was reared 
near Black Jack, in Newberry District. Being a lad during 
the Revolution, he had escaped conscription by the Whigs, but 
was exposed to the cruelties of Tories. One daj they were 
seen approaching the house, when a puncheon was lifted and 
he was hidden under the floor. The Tories came in and by 
their terrible demonstrations so frightened his sick father that 
he I'ose from his bed and ran across the adjoining lot. The 
Tories shot him down, hacked him over with their swords and 
so stripped the house of everything in the clothing line that 
Samuel ha 1 to take the shirt from his back to bury his father 
in. Trvily, these were the times that tried men's souls. Sam- 
uel Teague, to avenge the murder of his father, to serve his 
couUtry, or both, afterwards enlisted in the service of the pa- 
triots, but to what extent I have never learned ; but presuma- 
bly until the end of the war. He married and lived at New- 
berry until the exodus, when with a considerable family he came 
to this (Miami) county. He purchased and cleared land suc- 
cessfully and became an efficient and useful citizen. He joined 
the Friends, I think, some time before leaving Newberry. He 



340 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

WHS H Quaker in tho strictest sense of the word, Lnrdly toler- 
ating singing. One day as he was busking corn under his 
crib-shed, assisted by two Newberry boys named -Tohn Turner 
and Elisha McCook, he was asked if McCook, who was a good 
singer, might not give them a song. Consenting rather reluc- 
tantly, McCook did his best, acquitting himself well. When 
finished and asked if that was not good singing, he rejilied, 
'Perhaps it was if there is such a thing as good singing.' It 
was said he could have obtained a pension in his latter days, 
but he w'ould not a[)ply for one. Ho was very useful in his 
church, lived to advanced age, leaving a numerous train of 
descendants, bis children all keeping their rights in the church, 
though none of them are now living. 

"Three Pemberton brothers, namely, Isaiah, Robert and John, 
came from Newberry to IMiami County, perhaps being sons of 
George, mentioned in tho Annals. They opened farms and 
reared families some of \\hom yet live. John in after life went 
into a state of 'melancholia.' Concluding he was useless to the 
world and had better leave it, he sent for James Hall, a once 
Newberry neighbor, but not a Quaker, and asked him if he did 
not think that he (John) had better commit suicide. Hall, 
who, though illiterate, had common sense, encouraged him in 
the project. Well, how had it better be done? Would not 
drowning in Ludlow Creek, which was near, be the best way 
of accomplishing it? 'Yes,' replied Hall, 'and I'll go down 
with you and if necessary help you do it.' Having arrived at 
tho creek, Pemberton stood hesitating upon the bank, when Hall 
shoved him in. He would not drown, however, but came out 
with a good wetting and, what was better, an entire cure of his 
suicidal desires. He lived many years afterwards, but in a state 
of semi-dementia, an object of pity to those who saw him. 

"The Inmans, several in number, settled near the above 
named creek and were plain, unpretentious farmers. 

"James Steddam must have settled in Warren County, and 
must have died long ago. His two sons, John and Samuel, 
not mentioned in the Annals, settled there and became two of 
the most prosperous farmers in the county. They lived to good 
age and left behind them numerous and worthy posterity. 
John Crumpton, or properly Campton, and Isaac Cook appear 
to have settled in tho adjoining county of Clinton, and, like 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 347 

the others, were industrious, prosperous and efficient church 
members. 

"John Jay merits special mention, the removal of whom and 
family was more loss to Newberry than that of any other. He 
was married during the Revolution, and his seven sons and 
throe daughters were born and, in part, married there. Cour- 
age, industry, enterprise and thrift were characteristics of the 
entire family. He and his sods were remarkable for rearing 
and training horses. No other seven brothers drove as many 
fair horse teams as they; could crack their whips as loud and 
haul as heavy loads. In those early days grain, flour, pork 
and merchandise were transported on wagons and often long 
trips had to be made. Their names were Je.sse, Samuel, Walt 
D. (always called Denny), Thomas, John, William and James. 
All lived to advanced age except Thoma'!, who died soon after 
the birth of his fourth child. Five of them lived on lands 
adjoining ai)d reared such families that they long had the 
name of the 'Jay Settlement,' a name that carried with it the 
idea of industry, enterprise, success and independent fortune, 
coupled with such honesty, probity and morality as made them 
a blessing to the country. John, the father, died in their 
midst in or about 1828, having lived to see his good example 
followed by both his sons and daughters, all retainmg their 
rights in church and some being pre-eminent in it. Walter 
Denny, the third son, was a most remarkable man. One who 
knew phrenology said he had a head much like that of Na- 
poleon Bonaparte, and in many traits he resembled him. In 
planning and carrying on difficult enterprises he showed large 
combination and concentration, qualities essential for a gen- 
eral. He also showed indomitable courage with prudence, 
hardly knowing what fear of men was. These, together with 
great activity and push, which made him succeed in his enter- 
prises, would have made him a formidaVjle leader of armies 
had ho turned his mind that way. Indeed, he was past mid- 
dle life before, as he himself said, he had been completely 
changed from a state of nature to one of grace. A part of 
his sons attained to eminence in the college and pulpit. He 
was the first man that refused to furnish whiskey at his log- 
rollings, having seen evil grow out of it. And when some of 
his invited neighbors told him that they would not help him 



348 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

without it, he replied, 'They mio^ht stay away, for he and his 
horses would try to do the rolling without them.' So they 
had to succumb. 

"In the year 1850, after an absence of forty-seven years from 
Newberry, he, together with this writer, returned to it. He 
sought out the few of his old acquaintance living. Amongst 
these was Judge O'Neall, who, though a number of years his 
junior, had gone to the same school taught by John B. Mit- 
chell and Richard Clegg. They had a long, pleasant talk over 
the scenes of their early days and other matters, during which 
Denny asked the Judge this question : 'Does thee remember 
when thee and my brother Sam spent nearly all an afternoon 
in trying to divide twelve by four, and then didn't get it done?' 
The Judge, who was then quite a boy, and who, like brother 
Sam, was a tyro in figures, did not remember it. O'Neall, like 
many others when divested of official robes, exhibited that vein 
of humor and facetiousness to his old schoolmates which runs 
through much of his writings. He told of two tom-cats that 
fought over the mouth of a poorly covered dry-well and both 
fell into it. The owner of the well descended to help them 
out; but the belligerent felines not only resented his proffered 
help, but ran repeatedly up its sides, falling back upon his 
neck and shoulders, scratching him severely. He quickly got 
out of the well, but how the cats escaped I did not learn. 
Another story he told, which, if comical, Avas almost tragicah 
A warlike family of many years back, perhaps the Jess Dorvis 
one, of which I've heard my father tell, often had family bat- 
tles, the father leading one side, the mother on the other 
and the children dividing. One day, after a set-to in which, as 
usual, they were only bruised and blood:Stained, the chivalrous 
husband proposed that they finish after the manner of 'the 
honorable code.' 'You take this gun,' said he, 'and I'll take 
that; you get behind this post; I will get behind that yonder, 
and we will shoot whenever one of us can see enough of the 
other.' The wife agreed; they took their places, and when she 
peeped around the post her husband fired and she fell. He 
and the boys promptly dug a grave, but when they went to 
take her to it they found she had risen and gone into the 
house. To ease their disappointment the father said, 'Never 
mind, boys; I'll fetch her sure next time.' She was wounded 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 849 

near the eye, but not fatally. The Judge told this with such 
an air of nonchalance that even old Quaker Denny was almost 
amused by it. Denny, while at Newberry, also made visits to 
his old church sisters, the widows Hawkins and Pugh, the lat- 
ter being seventy-five years old and eleven years his senior. 
These, with Nancy O'Neall, whom he also visited, were the 
only survivors who attended Bush River meetings when he 
did. He and myself were guests of L. J. Jones the most of 
the time when at Newberry, and perhaps L. J. Jones and his 
lady may remember how, to show his activity, he would skip 
upon their porch floor, letting himself clear down on one foot 
with the other thrust out; then, rising half way up, would 
reverse them and sink U2:)on the other, continuing the exercise 
until he had set them all to lau.ghing. This feat I have never 
seen performed by any other one. In Ohio those who saw it 
called it the Quaker dance. He could take a wagon whip, 
throw himself on his back, or spring astride of the ridge-pole 
of his wagon, and crack it round his head, following the tune 
of 'Yankee Doodle.' We may well suppose his horses knew 
what the cracking of his whip meant. It was said that he 
could come nearer hitting all four of them at once than any 
other teamster, and his team never failed to pull its best when 
he required it. Though his business brought him often in the 
company of rude and immoral men, his candor and courage 
preserved him from imposition. Once when a bullying fellow 
threatened to whip him he replied, it is said, 'Well, if thee 
will whip me thee must, but I'll keep the mosquitoes from 
thee while thee's at it.' That was enough; the man let him 
alone. He had been a most incessant laborer, and it might 
almost have been said of him, as the poet said of Charles XII. 
of Sweden : 

" 'A frame of adamant, a soul of fire ; 
No dangers fright him and no labors tire.' 

Not the fire of unhallowed ambition and war, but the baptis- 
mal fire of the Prince of Peace. Highly conscientious, he 
never swerved from walking in the path of apparent duty; he 
never departed from plain apparel or language; and whatever 
enterprise of a public nature received his sanction also received 
his support. His vigor at the time of his Newberry visit, 
though he was sixty four years old, was such that, though he 



350 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

walked all d.iy, ascending and dosoeuding the mountains, ho 
was not woary. He had j^ivon up labor shortly before that 
time and after his return to Ohio lived at his ease, ofton visit- 
ing other meetings until his death, which happened near 1870. 
Though he had more of Luther's lirmuess than Melancthon's 
mildness, he was well litted to aoooniplish what he did dur- 
ing a life of over eighty years. That lu» had faults, is true; 
and who has not? But they were nearly hidden by his vir- 
tues, and I feel warranted in saying that I would have trusted 
his word, his honesty, probity and reliability as far as those of 
any man I ever knew. I admire him as a man the like of whom 
1 never saw before and will never see again; not seeking 

" The boast of Loraldry, ami the pomp of power,' 

****** 

But 'down the sequestered vale of private life 
Pursuing the noiselees teuor of bis way.' 

Such was Walter Denny Jay, an honor to Newberry, his 
native county, and to Miami, his adopted one. Well might 
we inscribe upon his tombstone : 

" 'Requiescnt iu pace !' 

"Thomas and Isaac Hasket left Newberry during or about 
1800. They were carpenters, as Hugh O'Neall informed me, 
and built the Bush River meeting-house in 17US. Thomas, of 
whom I knew but little, went to Indiana, but Isaac to Ohio. 
He was born in 177S, married at Newberry, and took his wife, 
Rebecca Evans, and their lirst child to Miami County on horse- 
back. He was a large and strong man, but very modest and 
diffident. One anecdote of him shows that, though a serious 
young man, he could be jocular. One morning while at mill, 
perhaps Hugh O'Neall's, he was standing by an out-door lire, 
when David Jones, uncle to L. J. Jones, and myself, came also 
to the lire. In crossing the mill-pond he had fallen into it 
and was dripjiing wet. Wishing to be fxinny and nuike the 
best of it, he said to Isaac, 'Mr. Hasket, you see, I'm a Bap- 
tist; but I suppose you're a Quaker.' 'Yes,' said Isaac, 'I be- 
lieve in going to the lire this cool morning, but thee believes 
in going into the water.' Friend Hasket, young and sturdy, 
went to work with his axe, felled the forest, and soon had 
fields in cultivation. He helped to build the West Branch 
Quarterly meeting-house in 180S, just twenty years after build- 



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351 



ing the one at Bush Iliver. The West Branch houHC, built of 
brick, by the Newberry Friends mainly, fctill staocls, having 
b(^(!n lately reno\ate(i, while the parent one, I learn much to 
rny regret, has been demolished Friend Hasket prospered, 
and reared live stalwart sons, none of whom ever thought of 
being broken down at a handspike lif*. He was a very worthy 
and upright man, respected by all who knew him. He died 
in 1848. 

"Thomas Pearson, following Hasket, has alr(;ady been writ- 
ten aVxjut. The two Enoch Pearsons next mentiori'^^-d were born 
in 1700 and 1701. One was the son of Thomas, the other was 
his nephew. They brought, or came with, many children, not 
one of whom i.s living. Three other Enochs came, which, with 
one Vxjrn here, made six. They were designated thus: Preacher 
Enoch, Blacksmith Enoch, Lame Enoch, Pony Enoch, Nuck 
Enoch and Teent Enoch. All are now dead. Preacher Enoch 
was a man of high standing, both at Newberry and West 
Branch. He was a son of Thomas. He visited as minister 
once, if not more. North Carolina yearly meeting and the rem- 
nant of Bush liiver Friends. He traveled much. His sons, 
Kobert, Thomas and Isaac, were worthy and useful men. He 
died in 1850, and the Blacksmith in 1800. 

"Of the Thomases who emigrated, several arc not mentioned. 
They were Abel, Isaac, John, William and Nehemiah, They 
came with consid(;rable families and formed a settlement for 
a while called Thomastown. They were plain, mode.st, clever 
and moderately successful farmers, which about comprises their 
history. The same may be said of the Duncans, who came 
here with them, who died in early times, not leaving many 
children. 

"The elder David Jenkins, next mentioned, was the man to 
whom my father, Elisha Jones, an orphan nine years old, was 
apprenticed in 1705. Baal Butler, a Quaker of .^ome note, was 
the guardian who Vjound him until his eighteenth year. 

"Barclay Benharn and another Friend with two initials, B. 
D., in his name, seem to have escaped the author of the An- 
nals. Their descendants are in Indiana, Clinton County anl 
elsewhere, so I know but little about them. It was said tbiit 
David found a joint-snake at Newleny which, on being switched, 
flew to pieces, afterwards becoming united. The present inLab- 



352 ANNALS OF NEWBEBKY. 

itants ought to know if such an incredible thing ever happens 
there.* David removed to Ohio with Elisha Jones in 1805, 
who, though out of his apprenticeship, had continued with him 
and learned the chairmaker's trade. Settling with his family 
near the Great Miami, he cleared a farm, where he died nearly 
forty years afterwards. David Jenkins, Jr., went to Ohio a 
young man full of expectation and promise. He became school 
teacher and magistrate, holding the last position, I believe, 
until his death. He twice at least returned to Newberry, the 
last time during the winter of 1839. His long continuance in 
office made him about as good a judge of law as the Troy 
attorney, and his decisions were seldom reversed. He was so 
useful in his township that the people could hardly do without 
him. His death occurred many years ago, but at what time 
I have not learned. 

"Two Wallace Joneses, father and son, emigrated from New- 
berry about the year 1800. The son was born in 1773, but 
the time of the father's birth I cannot learn. The most that 
need be said of him is, that he reared a family and died in 
1823. Wallace, Jr., possessed much skill and courage. Not 
born a Friend, he was in early life not governed by their prin- 
ciples, and so at times violated one command of the Decalogue. 
One night when at a neighbor's where he should not have 
been, the wronged husband unexpectedly came itpon him. 
While the man was jerking down his gun the guilty one rushed 
into the yard, hurrying across it. The man fired, but, it being 
dark, missed him. Wallace, fearing nothing but the loaded 
gun, now empty, turned round and coolly said : 'You are a 

d d poor marksman when you can't hit a man ten steps 

off.' It is not reported that he stayed till the gun was 
reloaded, nor that he went there afterwards. He became a 
military officer, and continued such until he emigrated, when 
he took his uniform with him. His four sons and two daugh- 
ters were nearly all, if not quite, born in the district, which 
some of them remembered. Being a carpenter and mechanic 
in wood, his services were sought after and he did well at his 

* Note. — The compiler of these Annals when he was a boy often 
heard such stories told of the joint-snake, but the stories were never 
true. The joint-snake, poor fellow, is like other snakes. If he is ever 
broken up into two or more pieces, he never becomes whole again. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 353 

trade. His wife, the daughter of James Patty, was a mild, 
forbearing Quaker, and her influence, together with that of her 
neighbors, caused him to become seriously concerned for him- 
self, and he at length applied to the Friends for membership 
among them. They, according to custom, appointed a commit- 
tee to visit, learn the sincerity of his heart, and report accord- 
ingly. During their conference they asked him what he had 
done with his uniform. Forgetting himself, he answered, in 
his old strain, 'I've sold it to Sam Edwards (his Newberry 
nephew), and I reckon he thinks he'll play h — 1 with it.' 
Whether the committee smiled or frowned at this expression I 
am not informed; but they reported favorably. He was accepted 
as a member, becoming a very consistent and useful one. His 
brusqueness and comicality, however, never entirely left him. 
Once, after reading at West Branch church a marriage certif- 
icate which was to be signed only by the groom and bride, 
he forgot to read the one to be afterwards signed by the wit- 
nesses. Discovering his mistake, he exclaimed: 'I'll be whipped 
if I haint forgot the last of it !" and then read it amidst th-e 
tittering of the large congregation. After sitting down with 
the married couple, together with a large number of guests, to 
a sumptuous repast, and thinking there was useless delay in 
giving the signal to 'fall to,' he exclaimed: 'I wish somebody 
would tell us to go to eatin', for I am tired of settin' idle so 
long.' This provoked another titter, but every one knew what 
allowance to make for Uncle Wallace. We went back to his 
native Newberry, I think, in 1S3G, but found only few of his 
old neighbors and acquaintances living. Returning to Ohio, 
he lived until, I think, 1854, when he peacefully passed away, 
having, notwithstanding a few peculiarities, lived a very cor- 
rect, useful and conscientious life. His second son, John, born 
in 1798, became when young a minister of some note and trav- 
eled ia other lands. During 1831 he returned with an approv- 
ing mission to Newberry, where at Bush River meeting-house 
(where he had gone when quite a child) he preached to a large 
congregation of willing listeners. Judge O'Neall, who remem- 
bered him of old, I learned, attended his meeting, and after 
its close invited him to his house. Seeing John's timid hesi- 
tancy, the Judge became earnest and told him he would almost 
consider it an 'open affront' if he did not go home with him. 
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854 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

This expression caused compliance, and no doubt the visit was 
mutually satisfactory. John traveled considerably in the min- 
istry after that trip, removing to Missouri long afterwards, 
where a few years ago he died. A grandson of his elder 
brother, Philemon, is an active surveyor and lawyer, be'ng now 
prosecuting attorney of Miami County. 

"I must not omit to write of Samuel Reagan, called Black- 
smith Sammy by way of distinction from younger ones of that 
name. He came here, I think, in 1800, with five sons and one 
daughter. Four sons were bom in this county, in all nine, 
who grew up to respectability and married here. Only three 
and his daughter Rachel, who married Isaac Pearson of New- 
berry, retained their rights among the Friends. Samuel bought 
■and settled on good land, having a large spring, on which he 
cleared a large farm and raised an abundance of fruits, par- 
ticularly cherries. He was a most skillful and useful mechanic 
in both iron and wood, not ceasing work until compelled by 
age. Regular in attendance at meeting, he was almost as reg- 
ular in nodding, if not sleeping, when there, attributable, 
perhaps, to his almost ceaseless activity. The time of his 
death I know not, though it happened many years ago. 

"Tanner Thompson, the leather man, I think came here and 
died a great many years ago. I knew several of his sons, but 
their lives do not warrant particular notice. 

"I have given a short biography of those of whom I had 
personal knowledge, mentioned on pages 31 and 32 of the 
Annals, besides some not mentioned there. On page 33 first 
comes the name of Joseph Furnas. Perhaps he was the father 
of Robert and Thomas W. Furnas, whom I well knew and w^ho 
emigrated from Newberry with a considerable number of chil- 
dren. The old man must have died not long after his emigra- 
tion. He must have had other sons whom I never knew, for 
there is a long list of Furnases, all related. A granddaughter, 
Sarah, traveled in Egypt, Palestine, and about all the countries 
of note in the old and new worlds. A short time ago she 
published at West Milton her 'Ten Years' Travel,' as interesting 
a work of its kind as I have ever read. Robert Furnas lived 
in Warren County, dying there many years ago a plain old 
Quaker; while his brother Thomas W. lost his right, became 
a politician, and was several times sheriff of Miami County. 



ANNALS . OF NEWBERRY. 355 

He had a wonerfiilly active son, perhaps the most fleet-footed 
man in the country. His son Robert, I have heard, went to 
California* and became its governor. 

"John Furnas, born at Newberry in 1798, became wealthy, 
reared a numerous family, did much public business, besides 
going to the Legislature. A man of irreproachable life, and 
member of the Christian Church, he was in the fullness of 
his years not very long ago gathered in the garner of the 
great hereafter as a shock of corn fully ripe. The few Fur- 
nases of whom I have written may serve as specimens of the 
race; a race of whom the present inhabitants of Newberry 
need never feel ashamed. The Kellys and Kirks, I think, 
settled in other counties, and little is known about them. 

"Samuel Gauntt never came here. James Brooks I think 
I mentioned before. Of the O'Nealls I have seen John and 
Henry many years ago living among my Newberry relatives 
in Green County, Indiana. John was a plain old Quaker 
professor, Init Henry seemed to be more of a politician than 
churchman. Thomas taught school in Miami County nearly 
seventy years ago. His wife, the daughter of old Thomas 
Pearson heretofore mentioned, died about that time, which 
caused the breaking up of his family. When and where he 
died I know not. 

"Of the women who emigrated to Ohio mentioned in the 
Annals on pages 33 and 34 I have already written. One 
sister of Charity Cook and Susannah Hollmgsworth, named 
Kesiah and not mentioned, deserves to be. She was born in 
1763 and married a man named Hanks. After becoming the 
mother of three sons and two daughters her husband died 
leaving to her the support of their minor children. She 
brought them to Ohio with her relatives, among whom they 
were divided until maturity. The eldest daughter, Mary, 
became a woman of uncommon sense and ability. Coming to 
the wilderness at the age of fourteen she soon accustomed 
herself to all its conditions, making the best of whatever hap- 
pened to her. While living with her uncle, Big Isaac Hol- 
lingsworth, she learned the art of making corn mush, which 
I think needs no describing. It was said that when her u.ncle 
found a lump of dry meal in his mush encrusted m a covering 
of enough, he would take it in his spoon and dash it across 

* Nebraska, instead of California. — [J. A. C] 



356 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

the table at her, which, if it hit her on the face, was not 
pleasant. Remonstrance she knew was useless, as the old man 
was immovable in his way of thinking and doing. So her 
only remedy was to stir the mush better in the future. In 
after life she was a very useful member in the female part of 
the Friends Church, who, as my readers may not know, had a 
department to themselves. She died in Iowa a few years ago. 
Her brother, James, was born in 1790, and was about ten 
years old at the time of their removal. He had uncommon 
mental ability, easily became a scholar and school teacher. 
He learned trigonometry and became one of the most efficient 
surveyors in Miami County. Liking the employment he fol- 
lowed it until age rendered its abandonment necessary. His 
conversation v/as always moral, instructive and entertaining. 
He possessed the philosophy of contentment and was satisfied 
with the realization of Agars prayer, 'Give me neither pov- 
erty nor riches,' etc. If he had possessed the energy and 
push of some of the Newberry emigrants he would have made 
his mark in the world. But these he had not, and made 
what the world calls a failure; but perhaps stands as high in 
the estimation of his Maker as though he had filled great 
earthly positions. He died several years ago in Iowa. His 
brothers and other sister need no particular notice. 

"There were many Halls and Penny s went from Newberry; 
also Barrets, Elmores, Laytons, Campbells and others, of whom 
some were very worthy, but need not further notice. 

"The school teachers who taught the Ohio emigrants must 

next be noticed. They were Richard Clegg, John B. Mitchell 

and James Howe. I have often heard my father speak of 

going to Richard Clegg's school in Newberry District" From his 

description and that of others I infer that he in part answered 

the description given of one in Goldsmith's Deserted Village: 

" *A mau severe he was and stern to view. 
* * * * ♦ * 

Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace 

The day's disasters in his morning face' 

An Englishman with native domineering spirit, to which in- 
temperance was added, one could hardly have expected him 
to be much different from what he was. The previous history 
of this man is given in a book called The Permanent Docu- 
ments, pages 128, 129 and 130. It is the seventh chapter of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 357 

the 'Drunkard's Looking Glass' written by Judge O'Neall, who 
kindly gave me the volume when at his home. He, Richard 
Clegg, reached Ohio, I think, not far from 1819, though I've 
no certain account. He resumed his old practice of school 
teaching and continued it till age compelled its abandonment. 
One remarkable thing is, that he taught in Ohio some of the 
children whose parents he had taiight in South Carolina. 
Not one remembers him with reverence. Stern and irritable 
they feared but loved him not. It is said that he once when 
old fell asleep in his chair when a coal of fire was laid upon 
his head. When wakened by its burning not a scholar 
would toll who did it and Poor Richard had to bear it. It does 
not appear that he drank much liquor here, perhaps because 
hard to get, or perhaps because forbidden by his employers. 
He died in poverty more than fifty years ago, and his silly 
wife. Creese or Creesy, went t® the poor house where in 
blindness she died. Richard is represented as having married 
this silly woman while he was silly from the effects of liquor, 
and however much he regretted it he could not undo it when 
sober. Their children partook somewhat of their mother's 
silliness and their father's improvidence, though not of his 
intemperance, and never amounted to much. Such are some 
of the fruits of intemperance. Richard has wealthy and 
respectable relatives ia Dayton who avoided the rock on 
which he split. 

"John B. Mitchell also taught many of the Newberry people 
who came to Ohio. I remember in my youth seeing a long 
well written manuscript, which my father told me was written 
by Mitchell for him. It was called the 'Advantages and the 
Disadvantages of the Married State.' I did not learn that 
Mitchell was its author. It was an Allegory, the scenes of 
which were laid ia ancient days, old Babylon being mentioned 
in it. His concluding advice, beginning with 'From thy old 
friend John B. Mitchell,' showed him to be a man of fine 
thoughts and profound religious convictions, which, with his 
learning, made him a proper instructor for young people. 

"It appears that James Howe taught a school or two here 
as far back as 1808 or 1809. I have seen a birth record, of 
my parents married here in 1800 and their eldest child born 
here in 1807, of incomparable beauty of penmanship. I was 



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told this writing was done by James Howe, and as the next 
birth of 1809 was not his writing it would seem that he soon 
returned to Newberry where he died. 

"In closing these brief memoirs of the emigrants from 
Newberry, far the most of whom I knew personally, besides 
a great many more not mentioned, I must say with sorrow 
that but one of those early emigrants is living. This one is 
Benjamin Pearson, born in 1805 and brought here in 1808. 
He is bowed with age, and only remembers crossing the Ohio 
on the way here. Those heroic adventurers left the balmy 
South, the land of the chestnut, the cedar and the pine; 
crossed the Alleghanies and entered the 'dark mephitic, 
tangled woods' of the far-off Northwest, whose giant oak, 
towering hickory, majestic walnut, spreading beech and lofty 
poplar, &c., frowned upon them and seemed to forbid their 
ingress. But with heads to plan and hands to execute, the 
forests disappeared, the wild beasts lied, waving fields of grain 
arose, dwelling houses, churches, villages and towns were built, 
all by the courage, industry, skill and labor of the brave people 
of the South. Should the question be asked, what county or 
district in the United States has furnished the most men, 
women and children to people the great Northwest? the 
answer must come from all the knowing ones that to New- 
berry District, South Carolina, belongs this great honor. 

"DAVID JONES. 

"West Milton, Ohio, August, 1889." 

I well remember the John B. Mitchell mentioned by Mr. Jones 
in the foregoing. He moved into Edgefield County, where he 
lived to be quite an old man. He was a Methodist and a local 
preacher, and I used to see him at Zoar church at love feasts 
and class meetings, for in my boyhood the class meeting was a 
regular institution of the church, and should be yet, I think. 
The last time I remember to have seen Mr. Mitchell was at a 
Baptist camp meeting at Mount Enon, where he preached and 
related some remarkable experiences he had then recently had. 
In a dream or a vision he thought he had passed into the other 
world, where he saw many of his old friends and neighbors ; 
some in the good world and some in the other, and some in 
neither, but midway between the two, seemingly hesitating as 
to which they should at last gravitate. 



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This camp meeting was held some time betweea 1835 and 
1840, but in what year I do not remember. But I very well 
remember seeing a young man, who had been at school at 
Mount Enon with me in 1835 and 1836, but was then in the 
South Carolina College, parade the camp ground, dressed in 
old style, with knee-breeches, silk stockings, with buckles in his 
shoes and ribbons and buckles at his knees, and coat and vest 
of the antique Revolutionary cut. His father was a staid, well- 
to-do farmer who lived near by, a member of the church, and 
you can well imagine how supremely disgusted he was at the 
exhibition. 

Mr. Mitchell died not a great while afterwards, probably in 
that same year. He was then very feeble, both in mind and 
body. After a long and useful life he quietly fell asleep. His 
remains lie buried, I think, but I am not sure, at Zoar church. 
He has descendants, great-great-grandchildren, now living in 
that neighborhood, in Edgefield, and others in Georgia, mostly 
Methodists. 

In regard to the O'Neall family I am able to give the 
following additional information which I learn from a letter 
received from G. T. O'Neall, of Waynesville, Ohio, written 
October 2, 1889. 

Henry O'Neall, a native of Newberry, was the father of 
fourteen children, twelve of whom lived to rear families. 
One of his daughters, Rhoda, married Lewis Chapman, 
youngest son of Rev. Giles Chapman, and was living in Mis- 
souri in the year 1884, in her 82nd year. Elizabeth married 
John Bays, and was living in Warren County, Illinois, in her 
72nd year; and Rebecca, who married Jno. T. B— — , was 
living at the same time near Newberry, Indiana, in her 64th 
year. The>e are all the children of Henry O'Neall who were 
living at the above date. 

The Hon. John H. O'Neall is the son of Henry Miles 
O'Neall, and the grandson of Henry, and was born near 
Newberry, S. C. He and his sisters were left orphans at an 
early age, and he became the ward of Judge John Belton 
O'Neall. About 1846 his grandfather Henry removed both 
him and his sisters to Southern Indiana, Davis County, where 
he has since remained. He is a lawyer and politician of 
prominence, was a member of the last Congress, and was, I 
thinlf, re-elected last fall. 



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II. 

According to promise given to some friends it devolves 
upon me to continue the Annals of Newberry from the time 
Judge O'Neall closed his labors down to the present. 

His work was begun in 1850 and takes up the story from 
the earliest settlement of the county and records the principal 
events occurring down to the year 1858, or thereabouts, closing 
his labors with that year. He also traces the career of many 
families in the county, telling whence they came, &c. He 
closes with sad forebodings for the future, disapproving as he 
did entirely, the agitation then going on looking to secession 
and the dissolution of the Union. He had always been a 
consistent Union man and had suffered obloquy and reproach 
for his staunch adherence to his principles. He lived to see 
his country divided into two great sections arrayed in deadly 
conflict against each other, and to know that many very dear 
to him had gone to their eternal rest, slain upon the battle 
field. He lived long enough to know that the South was 
beaten and would soon be at the mercy of the stronger sec- 
tion. But he was spared so far as to be kept from witnessing 
the humiliation and the trampling under foot of his beloved 
State by men who cared naught for her save to drain her of 
all her resources. Had he lived, it may be that he could have 
been of use in helping his people in their time of trial. But 
he was taken away, perhaps in mercy to him. 

It is with great diffidence that the present writer undertakes 
the task to which he has pledged himself, and he is conscious 
that the work cannot be otherwise than very imperfectly done. 
To gather up the loose material for history that lies scattered 
about and weave it into a connected whole, fair to the sio-ht 
and memory, requires, I fear, a greater degree of patient in- 
dustry than is his. But his word is given and \yith him this 
labor is a labor of love. 



JOHN BELTON o'nEALL. 



Perhaps I cannot better begin this work than with a sketch 
of John Belton O'Neall. Possibly no truer narrative of his 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 361 

life could be found than one prepared by himself and pub- 
lished in 1859 in his "Bench and Bar of South Carolina." 
I quote from it: 

"He is the son of Hugh O'Neall and Anne Kelly, his wife, 
both of whom were members of the Society of Friends, on 
Bush River, Newberry District, South Carolina, and conse- 
quently he was, by his birth-right, a member. The society 
there has, for nearly half a century, been, from the diminu- 
tion of its members, incapable of transacting business; and 
he is, therefore, still one of them, although he knows per- 
fectly well, from his habits, pursuits and mode of life, that 
he has forfeited his right to be called "a Friend''^ ; yet, he 
confesses to a great partiality for Friends, when indeed and 
in truth they are such. 

"His ancestry on both sides were Irish, his paternal great- 
grandfather belonging to the ancient house of O'Neall of 
Shane's Castle, Antrim, Ireland. His maternal grandfather, 
Samuel Kelly, was of King's County, and his grandmother, 
Hannah Belton, was of Queen's County, Ireland; so that he 
may rank as a full-blooded Irish-American. 

"He was born on Wednesday, 10th of April, 1793, about 
half a mile below Bobo's Mills, on Bush River. At his earliest 
recollection his father removed to the mills, and tJiere his 
boyhood was spent. 

"He began to go to school when he was five years old. A 
young man, the Fon of a friend of his father's, boarded at 
his house and went to 'Master Howe,' (as the teacher, James 
Howe, was familiarly called,) about one mile and a half 
distant. He took the child-like pupil with him, day by day, 
carrying him across the branches on his back. The first 
shock of death which he ever experienced, was in the decease 
of this young gentleman, Capt. Abraham Parkins, in October, 
1802. He (young O'Neall) learned rapidly, but his subsequent 
life satisfies him that he went to school at least two years too 
soon. His nerves were unstrung by an attack of what was 
then called nervous fever, when he was about three years old, 
and which had the effect to render his hand so unsteady 
as to make him incapable of writing a good hand, although 
taught by the best teachers of penmanship with whom he was 
acquainted. 



362 ANNALS OF IfEWBERBy. 

"The other children of his father were girls. They were all 
remarkable for talents. His eldest sister, Abigail, went to 
school with him, and learned more rapidly than he did. She 
is still alive, and is the widow of John Caldwell, Esq. His 
two next sisters, Rebecca and Hannah, have long been tenants 
of the '.silent house.' His youngest sister, Sarah Ford O'Neall, 
is still alive, and is a member of the Society of Friends. 

"In 1804, a library society was organized at Newberry, of 
which bis father was a member. The books were selected 
and bought in the city of Boston, by Elijah Hammond, the 
father of Senator Hammond. This afforded to young O'Neall 
the opportunity of reading, a taste for which he had acquired 
by Mr. Howe having permitted him to read, under his direc- 
tion, his books, of which he had a pretty good selection. He 
recollects to this day with what avidity he read the first book 
placed in his hands — the 'Pilgrim's Progress.' 

"He continued to go to English schools, with slight inter- 
ruptions, until 1808. Occasionally he was employed as a clerk 
in his father's store, where he learned to abhor the liquor 
traific. At the schools to which he went for the first thirteen 
years of his school life, ho learned to spell and read well, and 
to write an indifferent hand, and came to understand arith- 
metic perfectly. 

"He acquired great facility in memorizing promptly what- 
ever was put in his hands. He committed to memory, in an 
hour, the 9th chapter of II. Kings. In May, 1808, he became 
a pupil of the Newberry Academy, then under the care of 
the Rev. John Foster. He pushed his young pupil forward 
much too rapidly. By January he had him reading Virgil, 
without at all understanding it as he should have done. In 
January, 1809, Charles Strong, of the class of 1808, South 
Carolina College, became the preceptor in that year and the 
next. Young O'Neall became a thorough Latin scholar, and 
was sufficiently instructed in Greek and all the branches of 
English to prepare him for the Junior Class of the South 
Carolina College. During this time he acquired the habit of 
extemporaneous speaking, by practicing to speak every night, 
after he had got his lesson for the next day, before his uncle 
and grandmother, with whom he boarded at Springfield. 

"In the year 1810, his father was deprived of his reason, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 363 

and this kept him homo from school for several months, to 
endeavor to close up satisfactorily his deranged mercantile 
affairs. But all was in vain. Bankruptcy came down upon 
him, and his creditors nearly crushed every hope by suing 
him in his unfortunate, insane condition, and forcing his 
property to a sale at an immense sacrifico. Thus his family 
were turned out of doors, and had it not been for the kinduess 
of his father's bachelor brother, must have been left without 
even a shelter for their heads. 

"In February, 1811, young O'Neall was allowed to enter the 
Junior Class of the South Carolina College. In December, 
1812, he graduated with the second honor of that institution. 
His diploma bears date 7th December, 1812, and is signed 
by Jonathan Mascy, S. T. D., Prseses. ; Thos. Park, Ling. 
Prof.; B. R. Montgomery, D. D., Mor. Phil, and Log. Prof.; 
Georgius Blackburn, A. M., Matt, and Astron. Prof.; and by 
Henry Middleton, Governor and President of the Board, and 
twenty two Trustees, only one of whom, John J. Chappell, is 
alive. 

"The expenses of his collegiate education were paid in part 
by himself, and the balance out of his father's dilapidated 
estate by one of his committee-men, and which was not allowed 
in his accounts. His father (in 1813) recovered his reason, 
and, in gathering up the wrecks of his fortune, succeeded in 
being able to reimburse Mr. Caldwell such sums as he had 
expended on his son's education. 

"In 1813, for about six months, O'Neall taught in the 
Newberry Academy. At the end of that time he devoted 
himself to the study of the law, in the office of John Cald- 
well, Esq. At that time Anderson Crenshaw, Esq., afterwards 
Judge Crenshaw, of Alabama, lived in the village; he gave 
O'Neall free access to his library, and imparted to him much 
valuable instruction. 

"A debating society then existed at Newberry, to which the 
young men and many of the middle aged belonged. A meeting 
was held every Saturday, and subjects debated with much 
energy. O'Neall then improved his habit of extemporaneous 
speaking very much. 

"In August, 1813, O'Neall performed, at the muster of a 
demi-brigade, in Frost's old field, his first military duty, as a 



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member of the artillery company under the command of Capt. 
McCreless; the militia, under the orders of the Governor, were 
classified. The company to which he belonged was placed in 
the first class. That class was called into the State's service 
in March, 1814, and marched for Camp Alston, four miles 
"below Pocotaligo, in Beaufort District, where there was about 
as much necessity for troops as there would be, in time of 
war, at Chalk Hill, near Columbia. 

"The first class was mustered into service under the com- 
mand of Col. Starling Tucker, at Newberry, on the 1st, 2nd 
and 3d days of March, by Maj. Thomas Wright, Brigade 
Major of the then 2nd, now 10th, Brigade of Militia, and on 
the 4th commenced their march for Camp Alston. O'Noall 
was appointed Judge Advocate for the command, but was 
allowed to remain as part of the artilloiy company. The line 
of march was by the way of Lee's Ferry, Bord's, in Lexington, 
Pine Log, on Edisto, the White Pond, in Barnwell, Barnwell 
Court House, Buford's Bridge, across the Saltkehatchie, thence 
across many swamps to Pocotaligo and Camp Alston. The 
campaign was inglorious, and closed about the 1st of April. . . , 
"A few weeks after his return home (in May, 1814,) he was 
admitted to the practice of law and equity. . . . He imme- 
diately entered into partnership with John Caldwell, Esq., 
(who was Cashier of the Branch Bank of the State at Colum- 
bia, and had removed to Columbia). He opened his ofiice at 
Newberry, and from the commencement was honored with a 
large and lucrative practice. 

"In October of that year a volunteer company of artillery 
(in the place of that in which he had served at Camp Alston 
and which had been disbanded) was raised at Newberry, and 
he was elected Captain. To this point in his life he always 
refers as conferring more pleasure and pride than any other. 

"His first equity speech was made at Laurens, before Chan- 
cellor DeSaussure, at the June Term of 1814, for Washington 
Equity District. The Chancellor's approving smile was of 
great benefit to him theyi, and so was his friendship ever after. 
His first law speech was made at Union Court House, in Oc- 
tober, 1814, in a malicious prosecution case; notice of which 
was made in the sketch of James McKibben. When the case 
was going on. Judge Crenshaw, then a practicing lawyer, said 



ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 305 

to the defendant, James Duncan, son of Alexander Duncan, 
'You had better employ me; the young man who is about to 
speak against you is not known to you.' 'Never mind,' was 
the old man's reply; 'Cousin Josey (meaning Colonel Joseph 
Gist) will fix them.' But the old gentleman learned, in 'the 
sequel, by a verdict of two hundred dollars, that 'the race was 
not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.' His 
first law speech at Laurens was, in November, 1814, in defence 
of a poor fellow, for stealing a sheep, who was acquitted. 
These were voluntary speeches, and led the way to reputation 
and future employment. Young lawyers mistake much their 
duty to themselves in declining opportunities to speak without 
fee or reward. His early success at the Bar he always at- 
tributed more to the favor of the people, and the encouraging 
helping hand extended to him by the Bench and Bar, than 
any intrinsic merits which he possessed. For he knows now 
that his legal acquirements then were very slender. 

"Ill October, 1815, ho had the misfortune to be visited with 
an attack of fever ; he, however, kept pace with the business 
of his office, in the midst of successive and daily intermittent 
attacks. At Court, by the blessing of God, he was able to 
maintain his usual stand at the Bar. 

"At the October election of 1816, he was returned third, out 
of four members of the House of Representatives, from New- 
berry District. This gave him the opportunity of being more 
generally known, and probably furthered his views of ad- 
vancement ; but if he had the privilege to live his life over, 
ho would not seek such a position so early in life. On the 2d 
December, 1810, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred 
on him by the South Carolina College. On the 7th of August, 
in 1817, he was elected from the rank of Captain to that of 
Colonel of the Eighth and Thirt^'-ninth Regiments of Militia. 
He was enthusiastically fond of the military, and soon raised 
his regiment to a proud position as militia. The whole regi- 
ment were devotedly attached to their Colonel. Like many other 
young men, his vanity was played upon by professed friends, 
and he was presumptuous enough to offer for Major-General 
against his commander and friend, Brigadier-General Tucker. 
That he was defeated was exactly what he deserved. The offi- 
cers of his own regiment evinced their fidelity by giving him 



366 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 

an unanimous vote. This consoled their young Colonel in his 
defeat, and has ever since been gratefully referred to. 

"In the December Session of the General Assembly of that 
year he voted for the increase of the Judges' salaries. The 
■ consequence was, that at the elections of 1818 and 1820 he 
was left at home. This period of rest from political pursuits, 
he thinks, was of immense advantage to him; it made him a 
much better lawyer and increased his reputation and business. 

"In 1816 he was appointed by Governor Pickens one of his 
Aids, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. This appointment 
he resigned, in consequence of his election as Colonel. In De- 
cember, 1817, he was elected a Trustee of his Alma Mater, the 
South Carolina College, and he has tilled that office ever since, 
with the exception of a year, from December, 1821, to Decem- 
ber, 1822. Thus, for forty years, he has sedulously watched 
over the interests of that great institution. 

"On the 25th of June, 1818, he was married to Helen, eldest 
daughter of Captain Sampson Pope and Sarah Strother, his 
wife, of Edgefield. For forty-one years they have together 
toiled through life, enjoying much of happiness, and, in the 
death of all their children, drinking the cup of sorrow to its 
dregs. 

"In June, 1820, his grandmother, Hannah Kelly, died. By 
her will she devised to him 'Springfield.' Thither, in August 
of that year, he removed, and there he has resided ever since, 
adding to it many adjoining farms and the mills on Bush River, 
just above the forty-fifth line, railroad crossing. 

"In 1822 he was returned second to the House of Repre- 
sentatives in the General Assembly of South Carolina, and by 
successive biennial elections he was returned in 1821 and 1826. 
In 1824 and 1826 he was elected Speaker of the House of Rep- 
resentatives, without opposition. During the four years in which 
he held that great office there was only a single appeal from 
his decisions, and in that his decision was sustained. No Read- 
ing Clerk existed at his first term. The con.sequence was that 
he read all bills, reports and resolutions. He had a wonderful 
facility in this respect. His voice was clear, his enunciation 
distinct; he read with great ease and rapidity any writing pre- 
sented to him. His quick ?nd ready eye, and a prompt under- 
standing of the scope of the writer, constituted the whole secret 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



867 



of his art of reading. Being able to make out a word going 
before and another after an obscure writing, enabled him to read 

the sentence. 

******* 

'*In February, 1823, he was elected Brigadier-General of the 
Tenth Brigade, Fifth Division, of the South Carolina Militia, 
and on the 20th of August, 1825, he was elected and commis- 
sioned Major-General of the Fifth Division. In that and the 
previous election for Brigadier-General the officers of the Thir- 
ty-ninth Kegiment gave him an unanimous vote. In his election 
as Major-General he succeeded in rising over the head of a friend 
and relative — a much older officer and a most worthy man — 
Brigadier-General Dawkins, of Union. His commission as Major- 
General is signed by his much- valued friend, Governor Manning, 
and is therefore carefully preserved. 

"In 1827 the appropriation of ten thousand dollars, for the 
relief of Mr. Randolph, was made. The Speaker was known 
to be favorable to the measure, though he did not vote. In 
1828 the people of Newberry, who have always been remark- 
able for seizing upon matters of money appropriated as objec- 
tions to their members, did that which no other district could 
have been persuaded to do — refused to return the Speaker — 
and, of consequence, lost the honor of having that officer as 
one of their representatives. 

"On the 20th of December, 1828, John Belton O'Neall was 
elected and commissioned as an Associate Judge. He imme- 
diately accepted the great trust; qualified, and entered on its 
duties. He rode the Southern, Western and Middle Circuits, 
and commenced, in the fall of 1830, the Eastern, now the 
Northern Circuit; but, at Chesterfield, he was taken danger- 
ously sick. As soon as he could ride, his friend. Dr. Smith, 
insisted on his accompanying him to his residence, at Society 
Hill, which he did; this kind attention was rapidly restoring 
him, when intelligence reached him that two of his children 
were dead, and a third at the point of death. He returned 
rapidly home, and in a few days saw his eldest daughter die, 
a lovely child of ten years of age. He did not resume his 
circuit; his friend. Judge Johnson, of the Court of Appe Is, 
held the Courts from Marion to tie close. 

"On the first day of December, 1830, Judge O'Neall was 



308 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 

elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals, aud entered imme- 
diately upon its duties. "With Johnson and Harper, he ea- 
coimtored and performed the labors of the Court of Appeals — 
herculean as they were — until December, 1835. The extent 
of them may be judged from a reference to 2 Bailey, 1 aud '2 
Hill, Bailey's Equity, 3 Rich., 1 and 2 Hill's Chancery lie- 
ports, Richardson's Equity Cases. 

'•The decision,. The State ('.r parte McCrady vs. Hunt, 2 
Hill, so displeased the dominant i>arty that the Court of Ap- 
peals, which had done more to give symmetry to the law 
than had ever been knowQ before, was abolished, and Johnson 
and Harper assigned to Equity and O'Neall to the Law. He 
has ever since then given most of his attention and labors to 
the Courts. The fact is, he has neglected his own affairs, and 
much injured his own estate, to serve the people. In May, 
1850, on the death of Judge Richardson, ho became President 
of the Court of Law Appeals and of the Court of Errors. 
His recorded labors from December, 1835, are to be seen in 
3 Hill, Dudley, Rice, 1 and 2 McMullen, Cheves, 1 and 2 
Speer, 1st, 2nd, 3d, -Ith, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, lOth and 11th 
Richardson, and 1st, 2nd, 3d, 4th and 5lh Strobhart. 

"In 1840, the degree of LL. D. was conferred on him at 
Columbia College, District of Columbia, and was repeated a 
few years since at Wake Forest, North Carolina. 

"In May, 1847, he was elected President of the Greenville 
and Columbia Railroad. Aided by an unfaltering devotion, he 
succeeded in carrying the enterprise successfully forward to 
Anderson, and within eighteen miles of Greenville; Avhen, in 
May, 1853, he surrendered the work to other hands. After- 
wards, the work had to be carried forward by the individual 
credit of the president and his friend and endorser, Colonel 
Simeon Fair. At different times, himself and all the directors 
were bound for more than one hundred thousand dollars. 
When the great freshet of 1852 broke down mor*^ than thirty 
miles of the road, and V\'m. Spencer Bro^vn, the talented and 
energetic chief engineer, was drowned, there devolved upon 
the president a work requiring sleepless vigilance and deter- 
mined energy. That he was enabled to overcome all obstacles 
is cause of devout gratitude to God, which he has always 
acknowledged. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 309 

"On 81st December, 1832, to save a friend, he abandoned 
the use of spirituous liquors, and in June following gave up 
the use of tobacco. To these two causes he ascribes his health 
and ability to perform more labor than most men at his time 
of life can accomplish. He joined, soon after, the Head's 
Sj^ring Temperauco Society, Newberry District, where his 
membership now is, and of which he is president. He became 
a teetotaller; and, in December, 1841, he was appointed Pres- 
ident of the State Temperance Society, which office he still 
holds. In 1849, he joined the Sons of Temperance, Butler 
Divii^ion, No. 10, at Newberry. He was elected G. \V. P. of 
the Grand Divi.sion of South Carolina, October, 18o0; and in 
June, 18D2, at the city of Richmond, Virginia, he was elected 
and installed M. W. P. of the Sons of Temperance, of North 
America. He attended, in 1853 and 1854, the annual meetings 
at Chicago, Illinois, and St. John's, New Brunswick. Then he 
s.irrondered his office to his successor, Samuel L. Telby, of 
St. John's. 

"In the spring of 1834, the Judge and his wife lost, by the 
scarlet fever, two of their lovely little girls. 

"In 1837, he was elected President of the Newberry Baptist 
Bible Society. To this office he has annually been elected; 
much good has been accomplished by this society under his 
direction. He is now the President of the Bible Board of the 
Baptist State Convention — of which body (the Baptist State 
Convention) he was elected president in July, 1858, and again 
in 1859. 

"He was elected President of the Newberry Difjtrict Agri- 
cultural Society in 1839, and has been annually elected ever 
since. The good accomplished by that society is known by 
the fact that Newberry has reclaimed her wasted fields and 
made more and better injprovements in agriculture than any 
other district in the State. The society has, once or twice, 
been on the verge of dissolution; but the people of Newberry 
know too well its importance to permit it to perish. 

"On the 5th of August, 1857, the crowning sorrow of their 
lives occurred to the Judge and his wife. Then, their excel- 
lent daughter, Sarah Strother Harrington, the wife of Dr. 
Harrington, their only surviving child, was taken from them 
by death. They are consoled by the fact that she was a 
2 ' C 



370 ANNALS OF NEVTBEKKY. 

Christian, and that she has left sevea representative-, (four 
daughters and thres sons.) whom may God spare to comfort 
and assist their grandparents, and to become good and useful 
women and men.* 

"Judge O'Neall has written and labored much for his 
fellow-men. He has always believed where he could con- 
tribute even a mite to knowledge, education, temperance, 
religion and agriculture, it was his duty to make the effort. 
, . . . He is sensible that he has worked hard and en- 
deavored to do good. If he has succeeded, then every wish 
of his heart will be gratified; and, he will only add, may he 
be succeeded by others more, much more, useful than he has 
been." 

In 1859 the Legislature again established the Separate Court 
of Appeals, to consist of a Chief Justice and two Associate 
Justices. Judge O'Neall was elected Chief Justice at the same 
session of the Legislature, which position he held to the time 
of his death. 

The Temperance cause never had a more faithful and per- 
sistent advocate, and the work that he did is now bearing fruit. 

As stated by him, his parents were of the Society or Church 
of the Friends, but after the great exodus from Newberry in 
the early part of this centur}^, in consequence of the preaching 
and prophecies of Zachary Dicks and the consequent ruin of 
the church, he, with some others of the family, united with 
the Baptist Church, ia which communion he remained until 
death, a faithful and consistent member. 

I have heard many public speakex-s, at the bar, in the pulpit, 
and on the stump, but I am sure that the greatest natural 
orator I ever heard was Judge O'Neall. His manner was so 
animated and earnest, his voice so full and strong, and his 
words came so readily and with so much energy, that he gave 
great interest to whatever subject he might be speaking on. 

* Helen H, married Dr. S. Pope and is now living in Newberry; Moriat 
H. married Capt. J. W. Gary and died several years ago; Hattie H. 
married Col. T. J. Lipscomb and is living in Columbia, S. C; Hugh 
O'Neall is living in Texas; Young John was a promising lawyer at New- 
berry and died several years ago; John Belton O'Neall is a physician and 
is living in Mississippi; Sallio H. married Charles Kier and is also living 
in ^Mississippi. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 371 

Even though his position might be untenable, and he might 
be engaged in the advocacy of an erroneous cause, yet his very 
earnestness and eloquence would oftimes make his hearers feel 
that he was right. William C. Preston, McDufiSe, Clay, Cal- 
houn, Webster, all these great orators of a past generation, I 
never heard; but I feel sure that O'Neall would not have been 
insignificant even among these giants and great men. 

He died December 27th, 1808, at his home at Sprmgfield, 
near Newberry. 

Closing his Annals amid the niutterings and thunderings of 
the storm soon to burst upon the country, O'Neall says noth- 
ing of the Kansas trouble, nor of the gi^eat excitement here at 
the time, nor of those persons who left Newberry for the pur- 
pose of helping to make Kansas a slave State. Contrary to 
the wish and advice of some of the wisest and most thoughtful 
Southern men, the Missouri Compromise had been repealed. 
They thought that repeal full of danger, as it would tend to 
precipitate and intensify a conflict between the sections and 
parties, each one doing its utmost to till the Territory with 
settlers pro and anti slavery, according to its proclivities, as 
by that repeal the Territory was equally open to all, previous 
to that time slavery having been prohibited. 

The people of Newberry, in common with all the people of 
the State, anxious to make Kansas a slave State, hold public 
meetings and raised funds to send settlers to the Territory for 
that purpose. Among those who went from the District of 
Newberry I call to mind Milton Fair, a younger brother of Col. 
Simeon Fair, Stanraore B. Chappell and E. J. Goggans. Fair 
never returned, but died in Kansas. Jerry Goggans was a 
graceful and easy letter writer, and I remember reading with 
much pleasure some letters written by him descriptive of scenes 
and incidents in Kansas, and published in our Newberry papers 
at the time. He is now living in Edgefield County, but is 
scarcely as lively and jolly as he was thirty years ago. Stan- 
raore Chappell also moved to Edgefield after the war, but he 
is no longer livino;. 

There were others also who wont to Kansas at or about the 
same time, John Holly and family, from Holly's Ferry, on 
Saluda River, who settled on a place purchased by E. J. Gog- 
gans, remaining there some time, but finally moving to Mie- 



372 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

souri, where his children and grandchildren still live. Thomas 
DeWalt, who was then a young lawyer, or student of law at 
Newberry, afterwards went to Texas. James Mangum, son of 
John Mangum, killed in the war of Secession. His name ap- 
pears upon the monument in the Square, below the Court 
House. Simeon Harris, brother of James Y. Harris, married 
and settled in Kansas, and is still living. J. Milton Wilson, 
who was a merchant and died at Newberry in 18 — , was also 
one; and John B. Harrington, also known as French Harring- 
ton, cast in his lot with the Kansas emigrants, his mother, who 
was then at Newberry, following him in about a year. John 
B. Harrington and his mother afterwards returned to Newberry, 
but nothing is now known of them. 

The agitation grew more and more intense. The blood of the 
people of the whole South— -whatever it may have been North 
— was at fever heat. The struggle for the possession of Kan- 
sas and the invasion of Virginia by John Brown were the begin- 
nings of the great civil war between the States, as these events 
took place only a few^ years before the secession of South Caro- 
lina. On the election of Abraham Lincoln, the candidate of 
the Free Soil party in 18G0, as President of the United States, 
South Carolina withdrew from the Union. Other Southern 
States soon followed her example. Then came four years of 
bloody and disastrous war, the result of which was the con- 
quest of the seceding States and the reconstruction of the 
Union. 

It is not my purpose at this time to give a history of that 
war; but Newberry was a ^reat sufferer, not only in material 
wealth, but in the sacrifice of the lives of many of her best 
and bravest men, who died in what we all thought a noble and 
heroic cause. Every day we still meet in the streets of New- 
berry maimed and crippled men, some with ooly one leg, some 
with one arm, some with one eye, and others halting and lame 
who have all their limbs, victims, uncomplaining, of that sad 
and disastrous war. My pen will trace lovingly the names of 
these, and of others equally true and patriotic, whose lives have 
gone to make up the Annals of Newberry. 

In 1859 John Brown made his celebrated raid into Virginia. 
He was captured and hanged, which was a strictly legal pro- 
ceeding, as he had violated not only the laws of the State and 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 373 

of the United States m trying to incite servile insurrection, but 
the laws of the United States in taking possession by force of 
arms of the arsenal at Harper's Ferry. But his hanging was a 
great mistake, as I thought and said at the time, as his death 
only added fuel to the flame of hatred that was already burn- 
ing in the Northern heart against the South. 

In 1860 the Democratic party still had a considerable majority 
in the Union, and might have elected the President for the next 
term. But with a strange fatuity — madness, the ancients would 
have termed it, sent upon them by the gods for their destruction 
— instead of concentrating their strength upon one set of candi- 
dates, with a folly unsurpassed in the history of the party, they 
had three: Stephen A. Douglas for the Presidency, with Her- 
schel V. Johnson for the Vice-Presidency; John C. Breckenridge 
for the Presidency, with Gen. Joseph Lane for the Vice Pres- 
idency; and John Bell for the Presidency, with Edward Ever- 
ett for the Vice-Presidency. The consequence was that the 
Free Soil party elected their candidate without a majority of 
the popular vote, either by the States or of the people. Soon 
after the result was known, a sovereign convention of the peo- 
ple of South Carolina was called, and by that convention an 
Ordinance of Secession was unanimously passed on the 20th 
day of December, 1800. The act of the Legislature calling the 
convention was ratified on the 13th day of November, and the 
delegates from the several election districts of the State assem- 
bied in the Baptist church, in the town of aColumbia, at 12 
o'clock on the 17th day of December, I860. Of that conven- 
tion D. F. Jamison, of Barnwell, was elected President. The 
delegates from Newberry were: John P. Kinard, Robert Moor- 
man, Joseph Caldwell and Simeon Fair. Of these delegates 
not one is living at this date, February, 1892. It is perhaps 
worthy of note that at the election of delegates to this conven- 
tion the majority of those entitled to suffrage in the District 
of Newberry did not vote. Nor was the Ordinance of Seces- 
sion passed by the convention referred back to the people for 
their approval. It seems to have been a foregone conclusion 
with the people of this State that upon the dominance of the 
Free Soil party and the election of a Republican President the 
Union was virtually dissolved, inasmuch as there would be no 
longer any safety for their institutions and property in the 
Union. 



374 AXNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Here follows the Oidinance of Secession, which I lake from 
a copy of the Journal of the Convention, printed \-j R. W. 
Gibbs, State Printer in LSC'2, now lying before me : 

AN ORDINANCE 

To dissolve the Union between the State of South ("arolina and other 
States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of 
the United States of America." 

We (he People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention, assem- 
bled, do declare and ordain, and tt in hereb;/ declared and ordained. 

That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third 
day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and 
eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America 
was ratified, and also all Acts, and parts of Acts, of the General Assembly 
of this State, ratifying amendments to the said Constitution, are hereby 
repealed; and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and 
other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby 
dissolved. 

Such was the brief, though plain, direct and positive Ordi- 
nance by which the momentous act of Secession was consum- 
mated. There was not a single dissenting voice. When the 
Ordinance was engrossed the members from Newberry, with all 
the other members of the Convention, affixed their signatures. 

The young people of this time, when everything is so calm 
and quiet, and when all the excitement attending the Presi- 
dential election and others is a mere ripple upon the surface 
of the political* sea, and is a subject of mirth rather than of 
apprehension, are little able to realize the intense feeling of 
anxiety that prevailed for years before Secession was an accom- 
plished fact, and filled the minds of many persons with an awful 
sense of some impending and dreadful evil. As an instance, 
it is well to give here a brief notice of a public meeting held 
at Beth Eden on the 31st of October, 1860, of which Dr. Glenn 
was President and John P. Kinard Secretary. The object of 
the meeting was explained by the president, which was to form 
an association for the purpose of assisting our fellow-citizens 
throughoirt the State, and of giving additional security to the 
county against the incendiary attempts of the Abolitionists. 
He referred to the present state of affairs; the designs of the 
Black Republican party — their threats — and showed the neces- 
sity of union among all classes and parties of men at the 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 375 

South. The nrces.'^ity of vigilance, caution and prudence. 
Suitable resolutions were passed, all looking to the preserva- 
tion of quiet and good order. The following named gentlemen 
were elected officers of the Association : Dr. George W. Glenn, 
President; James Caldwell, P. W. Gilliam, Jo?. Y. Hunter, 
James Spence, H. H. Folk, Vice-Presidents; John P. Kinard, 
Secretary. 

It is well, I think, to insert here, before proceeding further, 
a brief sketch of those worthy and good men and good citi- 
zens, signers of the Ordinance of Secession, all of whom have 
passed away — Simeon Fair, Eobert Moorman, Joseph Cald- 
well and John P. Kinard. I knew them all personally, and 
they were all good men and true. Two of them were near 
neighbors for a number of years before their exit from this 
life — Simeon Fair and Eobert Moorman. 

Simeon Fair was the son of William Fair, and was born in 
Newberry County, five or six miles southeast of the Court 
House, in or near a section of country known as the "Stoney 
Hills," on the 17th day of November, 1801. He was a descend- 
ant of the Scotch-Irish, his father being of one of the families 
that came from Ireland about the year 1770. Colonel Fair was 
married on the 28d of December, 1840, to Miss Mary Butler 
Pearson, of Newberry. She was an excellent woman, loved for 
her many good traits of character, and died on 31 st Decem- 
ber, 18G7. 

He read law and was admitted to practice in the year 1824. 
When quite a young man he was elected Colonel of the Thirty- 
ninth Regiment of Militia. In 1840-1841 he was a member of 
the Legislature, but failed to be returned at the next election 
on account of having supported a certain measure in the House 
which, though right and good in itself, yet did not please the 
people at the time. One of the Circuit Judges, Judge Gauntt, 
had become unable and incompetent to perform properly the 
duties incumbent upon him, on account of age and infirmity. 
As he could not be impeached it was thought good to make 
it worth his while to resign. Accordingly an act was passed 
giving him a year's salary extra after re.signation. Mr. Thomas 
H. Pope, who was a Representative from Newberry at the time, 
also voted for the measure, and he, too, was defeated at the 
next ensuing election. Colonel Fair was afterwards re-elected. 



376 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

During the Seminole war in Florida, when men were called 
for from this State to serve for three months, he volunteered 
and was elected Lieutenant in the company in which he had 
enlisted. This was in 1836. When James J. Caldwell, father 
of J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., author of a History of McGowan's 
Brigade — by the way, a very excellent book — was made one 
of the Equity Judges, for the Courts of Law and Equity were 
at that time separate and distinct. Colonel Fair was appointed 
Solicitor in his place, which position he held continuously from 
1846 up to and during the war of Secession. He was again 
made Solicitor in 1866, but our State government was then 
overthrown by act of Congress. Reconstruction and Radical 
rule followed, and Colonel Fair was, of course, displaced. He 
continued the practice of law at Newberry until his death. 
He died 15th July, 1873. 

I knew him well for many years. He had as few faults as 
most men — fewer than many. He v/as a good man, sociable 
in disposition, genial, kind and pleasant. Generous and for- 
bearing to young and inexperienced practitioners at law, he was 
not anxious to take advantage of their want of skill in pleading. 

His descendants are living here amongst us. One of them, 
John S., is a lawyer and has been Town Clerk for a num"^er of 
years, and still (1892) holds the position. The other sons, 
William Y. and James L, are farmers. His daughter married 
Col. W. Drayton Rutherford, a gallant ofScer, Colonel of the 
Third . Regiment S. C. V., who was killed at the battle of 
Strasburg, 13th October, 1864, leaving one daughter whom I, 
an old man, may be permitted to say that I love for her many 
good qualities and her courtesy to the aged. Ah, Katie, may 
you be happy with the man of your choice, airs. Rutherford 
is now the wife of Y. J. Pope, Esq., who was a brave and good 
soldier and officer during the war; lost an eye in the service, 
and is now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the 
State, having been elected in December, 1891. 

Colonel Robert Moorman was a native of Union County. His 
education was limited, as he was not a graduate of any col- 
lege. But being a man of strong good sense, pleasant man- 
ners, genial and sympathetic disposition, he became a successful 
farmer and merchant, and was at one time one of the most 
popular men in the county. During and after the war, until 



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377 



the close of bis life, I knew him intimately and well, as his 
home was then at Newberry, and I found him to be a man of 
strict integrity of character, a devoted Christian, zealous ia 
every good word and work and entirely free from Pharisaical 
bigotry and exclusiveness. Some years ago, a few years before 
his death, at the meetings of our Prayer Circle, which was an 
occasion for devotional exercises, frequently the tears might 
be seen rolling down his cheeks when moved by feelings of 
adoration and of love. At such times it was good to be with 
him. Being very social in his disposition and nature, in his 
youth he was fond of the dance, and he has told me that of 
an evening, after the business of the day was over, he would 
gladly ride a dozen miles in order to engage with young peo- 
ple in the dance, or other social amusements of the time. The 
same social disposition after his conversion made him love the 
house of God and the fellowship of religious people. 

He represented Newberry District in the Lower House three 
terms, two terms in the Senate — except one session — having 
resigned on account of ill health. Afterwards he was elected 
again and served four years. He was an ardent States Eights 
man, and when the dark days of trial came he was ready, and 
pledged all that he had in defence of what he thought was right. 
Without hesitation, without scruple, he signed the Ordinance 
of Secession with as firm and high a heart as the men of 1776 
signed the Declaration of Independence. 

Hs was twice married. Three children are still .living: 
Thomas S., son of his first wife, practicing law at Columbia, 
and also Librarian of the Suprem-3 Court; was Second Lieu- 
tenant Third Regiment S. C. V. during the war, serving with 
honr>r and doing his duty faithfully; and Robert, son of the 
second wife, and his sister, Mrs. Simkins, wife of Lewis W. 
Simkins, Esq., of Laurens C. H. There were other children, 
Elizabeth, known to me as Bettie, a lovely, frank-hearted girl 
whom I knew from her childhood. She became the wife of 
Captain Clark Wardlaw, and died too soon for those who loved 
her. She left one child, which did not long survive her. 
Captain Wardlaw has also passed away. Nancy (Nannie) died 
unmarried. 

I have never known a man for v/hom I had a warmer feeling 
or a more devoted attachment than I had for Colonel Robert 



378 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Moorman. He was warm-hearted and deeply religious, and I 
always found him a true man and a firm friend. The following 
lines, being the couclusion of a poem entitled "The Walk," 
and descriptive of a three days' pedestrian tour into the country 
and back, fitly express the feelings I had for him : 

THE DAY AFTER. 
I uiiss one friend who lately passed away 
From earth's dark clouds to heaven's eternal day; 
He was a man whose heart was free from guile, 
Who sought in life his God's approving smile; 
The poor, the weak, the sorrowful, distressed, 
On him with confidence could lean and rest. 
As man, as father, neighbor, husband, friend, 
In him the virtues all did sweetly blend. 
No more this side the grave I'll see his face, 
But if there be a heavenly dwelling place 
Where good men go, I hope to meet him there. 
And breathe with him that pure celestial air. 
Where death comes not, the weary are at rest. 
Nor throes of pain disturb the peaceful breast. 
Yes, Moorman, yes, in that immortal land, 
I'll meet thee, know thee, clasp thy true right hand. 

Joseph Caldwell died June 2oth, 1S88. His was a long and 
useful life, being about eighty years of age at the time of his 
death. He was a man of strong natural good sense, and though 
he was always a farmer, never having made law a study, yet 
T have heard it remarked of him by one who knew him well, 
that he was about as good a judge of law as any lawyer at 
Newberry. His sound judgment was relied upon in 1860 as 
of one into whose hands the interests of the State being com- 
mitted, they would receive no detriment. As we have seen, 
he signed without hesitation the Ordinance of Secession. Chil- 
dren and grandchildren were about him in his declining years 
to cheer him at the close of a long and worthy life. 

John P. Kinard, one of the signers of the Ordinance of Seces- 
sion, had the honor of representing his native county in the 
Legislature, in the House and also in the Senate; he has also 
been Sheriff of the County. He lost his wife, a devoted and 
good wife, November 1, 1882, aged sixty-three years. He was 
then left alone, the sole survivor of five sisters and four brothers. 
He died suddenly at the residence of Mr. H. O. Henson, 
at Kinards, September 3, 18U0, aged about eighty years, 




CHANCELLOR JOK JOHNSTONE. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. v?79 

and was buried at Beth Eden Lutheran Church graveyard. 
One grandson, son of Dr. W. M. Kinard, is a student in New- 
berry College. 

These four, Simeon Fair, Robert Moorman, Joseph Caldwell, 
and John P. Kinard, having been thought worthy to represent 
the District of Newberry in the Secession Convention, have 
acquired a conspicuous and eternal position in the history of 
the District of Newberry and the State. As a fitting conclusioQ 
to this chapter, it is well to give a brief sketch of two emi- 
nent citizens of Newberry', not actors in the civil war, who have 
passed away: Chancellor Job Johnstone and General H. H. 
Kinard. 

Chancellor Job Johnstone was born June G, 1793, and was the 
son of John Johnstone,* who carne to Newberry in 1K06, already 
a married man end the father of several children. It is thus 
seen that Job Johnstone was not a native of Newberry, being 
about thirteen years of age when his father moved here. He 
was born in Fairfield, near Winn's Bridge. Judge O'Neall in 
his Annals says that John Johnstone was poor when he started 
in life, but that by persevering industry and energy he became 
quite wealthy, and was al)le to educate his children liberally 
and to provide for them handsomely. 

Job Johnstone, after graduating in the South Carolina College 
in December, 1810 (being the youngest graduate who, up to that 
time, had received a diploma), in 1811 entered the law office of 
John Hooker, at York, where he remained one year. The next 
year he was in the office of Mr. Clark, of Winnsboro. Without 
completing his studies in the law, he quit and went home, where 
he spent about two years, devoting his time to general read- 
ing. In 1814 he concluded to take up the study of medicine; 
and began Tinder the direction of Dr. Davis, an eminent phy- 
sician in Columbia. He took a course of lectures in New York, 
and in 1817, having graduated, he returned to Newberry and 

* John Johnstone and four of his brothers (whose ancestors were Scot- 
tish) emigrated from Derry, Ireland, two of them previous to, and the 
others just after, the Revohitionary war. They spelled their names always 
with the t, but most of them dropped the final e. One of them wrote his 
name Johnstown. Chancellor Johnstone formerly wrote his name without 
the final e, and nearly all his equity decrees are so signed, but in later life 
he replaced the final e and spelled his name as it was originally written 
by his Scottish ancestors — E. H. A. 



380 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

practicod for but a short time, and in tho fall of 1817 he 
renewed the stndy of law in the office of Judge O'Neall at 
Newberry, and was admitted to practice in the winter of 1818, 
and entered into partnership with Judge O'Neall. Why he 
discontinued the practice of medicine, I am not able to say. 
I have heard several whimsical reasons given to account for it, 
but I am not disposed to credit any, as he was a man of too 
good sense and judgment to be moved by a mere whim. Doubt- 
less he deeply felt the insufficiency of medicine to remove dis- 
ease, and consequently his own helplessness in the presence of 
sickness and suffering. The successful practitioner, or the one 
who would be successful, must have no doubt whatever of his 
own skill and knowledge and of the virtue and efficiency of 
his medicine. 

He was a successful lawyer, and never entered the arena of 
politics. In 1820 he was elected Clerk of the Senate of South 
Carolina, which position he held until he was elected Chan- 
cellor, on the 'i\d of November, 1830. In 1836 he was made 
an Equity Jiidge, and in 1850, when the Separate Court of 
Appeals was established, he was elected Associate Justice of 
this Court, which position he held until death. 

In 1860 he was very doubtful of the expediency of Seces- 
sion, as he had always been opposed to every movement, Co- 
operation,* for instance, the tendency of which was towards the 

* This is probably a mistake. My iuformation from the members of 
his family is that he wa.s thoroughly States Uights. He believed that the 
States wore sovereign and that the Union of the States Avas a Union of 
Sovereignties, with only the powers and authorities, ancl no more, that 
were delegated by these Sovereignties to the Federal Goverument, and 
that his allegiance was due to the State. 

He was a C\)-oporatiouist iu 1852 and with Judge A- P. Butler, at a 
meeting of citizens at Silver Street at that time, carried the people 
against separate State action. 

He was a Nnllifier in 1832, and bemg a member of the Convention, 
framed the Ordinance of Nullification. 

He was iu favor of the Confederac}', and, just ;i day or two before his 
death, had issued an address to the people calling for private contribu- 
tions for the purpose of getting up a Confederate Navy — the scheme for 
which he had advised with Secretary Mallory. 

He was a Commissioner to the first General Assembly of the Soutliorn 
Presbyterian Church which met in Augusta, Ga., in 18(il. 

These are evidences of his full and entire sympathy with the Soutli and 
of his true and loyal devotion to the South and her cause. — E. H. A. 



AKNAL8 or XEWBEBBY. 381 

diHSolution or looHening the bonds of the Union between the 
Statf^s. Nullification he did not regard in that light, as that 
was simply open resistance to a law which the State deemed 
unconstitutional; and the trouble in that case might be, or 
might have been, amicably settled by compromise, or by an 
appeal to the courts. But Secession was a declaration of Inde- 
pendence, a complete severance of all ties of duty or oVjliga- 
tion to the Unions and the trouble, in that case, could only be 
settled by an appeal to arms, coercing the seceding State or 
States, so making a forced Union instead of a free one; or by 
letting them go, and so permitting the Union to dissolve and 
return, by disintegration, into its elementary and chaotic condi- 
tion. Both courses, to the wise philosopher and statesman, were 
full of grave and appalling dangers. With his clear and far- 
.seeing mind, he shrank from the prospect. He thought that the 
Government at AVashington would not permit any State to leave 
the Union in peace. Indeed, he felt that it could not. He was 
not one of those sanguine souls willing to drink all the blood 
that might be shed during the war that would follow Seces- 
sion. But after the State seceded, after the die was cast and 
the SoutJK.'rn Confederacy formed, he was as true to the caase 
of the South as any citizen in the State. It was as a judge 
of law, and in his profound knowledge of that science, that he 
was pre-eminent. He never formed an opinion or came to any 
conclusion hastily; but patiently investigated every question 
and weighed every difficulty that might present itself. He 
wanted the truth in every cau.se, and having the sense of jus- 
tice woven into every fibre of his being, his supreme desire was 
that every decision rendered by him should be clear, decisive 
and right. He was a ju.st Judge, and being just in all his 
private dealings with his fellow men, he wanted justice from 
all. But he was not hard. I have had money transactions 
with him ; I have worked for him ; and I alw^ays found him 
gentle and true and kind. He was a gentleman, modest and 
unassuming in his manners, making all, even the unlettered, 
feel at ease in his company. He was twice married, having 
sons and daughter.s by Vjoth unions. Paul I remember as one 
of the gentlest of men. And notwithstanding his long-contin- 
ued ill health (he died early), he was overflowing with a genial 
and kindly humor. Silas was for a number of years Commis- 



882 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

sioner in Equity. He is now Master. George is a lawyer and 
a successful practitioner, has recently represented his county 
in tlie Legislature, and is now a Member of Congress, having 
been elected in 1890. J. Malcolm was elected to the Legisla- 
ture in 1888. He and Allen are both farmers, and good ones. 

Chancellor Johnstone died April 8th, 18(32, long before the 
conclusion of the great civil war. He saw dark days ahead, 
and was not sanguine, as he never had been, of the success 
of the South. 

Gen. H. H. Kinard was certainly for many years one of 
the most influential men of Newberry County. He was born in 
the Dutch Fork of Newberry on 29th March, ISOC). When Judge 
O'Neall was wxiting his Annals Gen. Kinard was serving his 
second term as Sheriff. Thus being placed alongside of Mr. 
John S. Carwile as worthy, in the judgment of the people, of 
being twice Sheriff of Newberry. He was afterwards elected 
for the third term. For twelve years he filled the responsible 
office of Sheriff, a greater number of years than any other 
person has ever held the office in Newberry. 

Gen. Kinard was twice married. Only three children, a son 
and two daughters, survive him. There are, however, several 
grandchildren. He left a widow who became in due time the 
wife of my long time friend. Dr. O. B. Mayer. His eldest 
daughter married first. Col. W. B. D'Oyley. Being left a widow 
she married Kev. J. "W. Humbert of the Methodist Church. 
Mrs. Humbert is the Secretary of the "Woman's Missionary 
Society" of the Methodist Church of this State. A sketch of 
the history of this Society will be given elsewhere. His 
youngest daughter is happily married to Rev. A. Coke Smith 
D. D., of the Methodist Conference of South Carolina. His 
grand-daughter, Alice, who is also the grand -daughter of my 
old friend, Dr. P. B. Ruff, married Mr. E. H. Aull, of New- 
berry. Of her father, Capt. J. M. Kinard, who was killed 
during the war, I shall have more to say at the proper time. 
His grandson, John M. Kinard, is Clerk of the Court by ap- 
pointment and by election (1888). His son Henry is now liv- 
ing in Newberry. His other grandson, brother to John M., is a 
graduate of the Citadel Academy and was a Professor or teacher 
in that Institution, but is now a student of Johns Hopkins 
University, Baltimore. Gen. Kinard had one son whom I never 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 383 

knew, who was said to have been a young man of great 
promise. He died in Paris while attending a course of med- 
ical lectures in that city in the year 1850 or 1857. I write 
from memory. His remains were brought home and buried 
here. 

Gen. Kinard was a native of Newberry County, born in the 
Dutch Fork. Having been elected Sheriff he removed to the 
County Seat about the year 1840 where he passed the re- 
mainder of his life. He lived some years after the war, dying 
on the 17th of June, 1809. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 



III. 

As part of the Annals of Newberry, as well as the Annals 
of the whole State, I think it well to insert here the address 
of D. F. Jamison, President of the Secession Convention. When 
called to the chair Mr. Jamison said: 

^^ Gentlemen: We have met here under circumstances more solemn 
than any of us have ever been placed in before. No one, it seems to me, 
is duly impressed -with the magnitude of the work before him, who does 
not, at the same time, feel that he is about to enter upon the gravest and 
most solemn act which has fallen to the lot of this generation to accom- 
plish. It is no less than our fixed determination to tbrovi^ otf a govern- 
ment to which we have been accustomed, and to provide new safeguards 
for our future security. If any thing has been decided by the elections 
which sent us here, it is, that South Carolina miist dissolve her connection 
with the Confederacy as speedily as possible. 

"In the progress of this movement we have two great dangers to fear- 
overtures from without, and precipitation within. I trust that the door is 
now forever closed to all further connection with our Northern coufed-> 
erates; for what guarantees more strictly guarded, or under higher sane 
tions, than the present written compact between us? And did that sacred 
instrument protect us from the jealousy and aggressions of the North, 
commenced forty years ago, which resulted in the Missouri Compromise? 
Did the Constitution protect us from the cuxjidity of the Northern people^ 
who, for thirty-five years, have imposed the burden of supporting the 
^ General Government chiefly on the industry of the South? Did it save 
us from Abolition petitions, designed to annoy and insult us, in the very 
halls of our Federal Congress? Did it enable lis to obtain a single foot 
of the soil acquired in the war with JNIexico, where the South furnished 
three-fourths of the money, two-thirds of the men, and four-fifths of the 
graves? Did it oppose any obstacle to the erection of California into a 
free-soil State without any previous territorial existence, without any 
defined boundaries, or any census of her population? Did it throw any 
protection around ttie Southern settlers of Kansas, when the soil of that 
territory was invaded by the emissaries of Emigrant Aid Societies, in a 
crusade preached from Northern pulpits, Avhen churchmen and women 
contributed Sharp's rifles and Colt's revolvers, to swell the butchery of 
Southern men? And has not that Constitution been trodden under foot 
by almost every Northern State, in their ordinances nullifying all laws 
made for the recovery of fugitive slaves, by which untold millions of 
property have been lost to the South? 

"Let us be no longer duped by paper securities. Written constitutions 
are worthless, unless they are written, at the same time, in the hearts, and 




Robert Moonnan. 
John 1'. Kinard. 



Simeon Fair. 
Joseph Caldwell. 



SIGNERS OF THK ORDINANCF: OF SECESSION. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 385 

founded on the interests of a people; and as there is no common bond of 
sympathy or interest between the North and the South, all efforts to 
preserve this union will not only be fruitless, but fatal to the less nu- 
merous section. The other danger to which I referred, may arise from 
too great impatience on the part of our people to precipitate the issue, in 
not waiting until they can strike with the authority of law. 

"At the moment of inaugurating a great movement like the present, I 
trust that we will go forward, and not be diverted from our purpose by 
influences from without. In the outset of this movement I can offer you 
no better motto than Dan ton's at the commencement of the French Revo- 
lution: 'To dare! and again to dare! and without end to dare!' " 

This was on the 17th of December. 1860. Three days 
thereafter, December 20th, the Ordinance of Secession was 
passed by the Convention without a dissenting voice. 

Secession was an accomplished fact; the long talked of dis- 
solution of the Union had taken place. 

South Carolina having seceded, six other Southern States 
soon followed her example and passed similar Ordinances, viz: 
Mississippi, on the 9th of January, 1861; Florida, on the 10th; 
Alabama, on the 11th; Georgia, on the 19th; Louisiana, on the 
26th; and Texas, on the 1st of February. These States met 
by delegations at Montgomery, Alabama, on the fourth of 
February, 1861, and immediately formed a Provisional Gov- 
ernment for one year, with JefPerson Davis as President and 
Alexander H. Stephens as Vice-President, for that time. The 
Constitution of the new Union was almost identical with that 
of the United States, but the name of the new Union was 
that of the Confederate States of America. Commissioners 
were immediately sent to Washington for the purpose, if it 
were possible, of making a peaceful and amicable adjustment 
of all matters pertaining to the common property and public 
debt. These Commissioners, Mr. Buchanan, whose term of 
office as President had not yet expired, refused to receive in 
any public capacity. In the meantime the seceded States had, 
before this, taken possession of all Federal forts and arsenals 
within their limits respectively, except Fort Sumter, near 
Charleston; Fort Pickens, of Pensacola, and The Keys on the 
Southern Coast of Florida, aad had granted jurisdiction over 
them to the Confederate States. Mr. Buchanan's term of office 
being about to expire, he made no efforts to adjust the existing 
difficulties and none to coerce the seceded States. 

2 D 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



On the 4th of March, 1861, Mr. Lincoln was inaugurated 
President of the United States, and the Confederate States 
Commissioners, who were still at Washington, made every effort 
possible to bring about a peaceful settlement of troubles be- 
tween the sections, so that a parting might be effected on 
friendly terms. Evasive replies were always made to all over- 
tures. In the meantime preparations for war were made, but 
not very energetically made, on both sides. It was very de- 
sirable that the evacuation of Fort Sumter should be brought 
•about without a resort to force. Efforts to this end were 
made by the Confederate Government and by the authorities 
of South Carolina; but in vain. All efforts to this end having 
failed, and it being well known that the Government at Wash- 
ington was intending to re-enforce Fort Sumter as speedily as 
possible, all talk and promises to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Gen. Beauregard, who was then in command at Charleston 
with about six thousand Confederate troops, was ordered to 
open fire upon the Fort. Firing commenced at half-past four 
on the morning of April 12th, 1861. After a bombardment of 
thirty-two hours the Fort surrendered. On the Sunday morn- 
ing following the writer of this was at the depot at Newberry 
waiting for the train to come in. A great crowd was present 
waiting to hear the news. There was no telegraph here in 
those days. As the train rolled in at eleven o'clock Major J. 
M. Baxter, standing on the platform of the passenger car, 
waved his hat and with a strong, sonorous voice cried out: 
"Fort Sumter is ours." With eyes moist with tears I then 
hastened to church. 



THE FIRST VOLUNTEER FROM NEWBERRY. 

In the Newberry News, Volume III., a Friend thus writes 
of the First Volunteer from Newberry: 

"South Carolina had seceded. A call was made for men to support 
her action and defend her against the horde of fanatics that every think- 
ing man knew must needs come. This call reached Newberry. Imme- 
diately one says, 'Enroll my name for the war or until death.' A brother 
who has since gone to that bourne whence no traveler returns, said, 'I'll 
go with you,' but the first, with his usual far-seeing eye and generous 
heart, turned upon iiim with womanly love and prophetic vision. 'No, 
you shall not; your health, family, business connections, all say no. But 
I'm in for the war, though I know at its close we will be a poverty 



ANNALS OF NEWBERHT. 387 

stricken people, the niggers will be free, and grass will grow in now pub 
lie, frequented highways.' 

"By the energy of.a few noble men soon a company was reported for 
duty. And a gallant one it ivas; its deeds alone would give to any State 
a glorious histori/. It was assigned to Col. Gregg's Regiment, First 
South Carolina Volunteers. This first volunteer patiently bore the mo- 
notonous life on Morris Island, the marches and labors incident to camp 
life in Virginia, with its advances and retreats, until came the hard fought 
battle of Cold Harbor. By this time he had become the pride of the 
company, the confidential counselor and friend to all. Standing erect, 
above ix feet high, weighing 180 pounds, a model man in physique, old 
army officers would remark that he was a born soldier. With sword 
drawn, pressing the enemy in his very trenches, he was struck by a ball 
between the second and third ribs, which passed entirely through his 
body, leaving his shoulder blade shattered. Over 100 pieces of bone were 
afterwards taken, from time to time, from the wound. He was laid with 
the dying and the dead, all believing that death in a few hours at furthest 
would relieve him of his sufferings; but he said 'not yet,' and alone by 
superiority of will he lived, though in continual pain, with no use of his 
left arm, until paralysis set in on his left side and gradually continued to 
increase till a collapse of the bronchial tubes closed the sufferings of his 
life. 

"Thus ended the life of Capt. Basil Manly Blease on the 2nd of Janu- 
ary, 1877, in his fifty-first year, having been born at Edgefield Court House 
on the 11th day of December, 1826." 

To the foregoing notice of Captain Blease the compiler of 
these Annals feels constrained to add: I was frequently with 
him when he was lying at home with his shoulder shattered, 
helpless and suffering. And I always found him as patient 
and uncomplaining, it seemed to me, as it was possible for any 
one to be suffering so greatly. He was far more patient than 
I was myself, when afterwards I passed through a similar ex- 
perience, as I lay in hospital for ten weeks, suffering from a 
gunshot wound through ray right leg. The smaller bone was 
broken and torn to pieces by the ball. I had no patience; 
the pain was too acute. But Captain Blease murmured as 
little as it was possible for man to do. 

Again I was with him when he came to die. When he felt 
his last hour approaching he sent for me— I had visited him 
frequently before during his illness — and he asked me to read 
the Scriptures and to pray with him. I did so, and it seemed 
to me that he was at peace, such peace as only those know, 
or can know, whose hopes are stayed on the eternal God. 
And so he died. 



388 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



The company thus formed in Newberry, the first company, 
became part of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volun- 
teers, which Regiment, says Lieutenant J. F.* J. Caldwell in 
his history of McGowan's Brigade, was of various origin; some 
of them being volunteer militia companies of long standing; 
some of them being raised by officers commissioned by Gov- 
ernor Pickens for that purpose. It formed part of the six 
thousand men under Beauregard a* the reduction of Fort 
Sumter. And thus Newberry was represented by brave and 
gallant men at the very beginning of the war, even as she 
was at the close. In another place will be found the roll of 
this company with the list of casualties during the war. 

There is now lying before me the roll of Company B, Third 
Regiment South Carolina Volunteers. The whole number of 
names on the roll is 141. Number living May 1st, 1888, is 
41. Some few in this company were not from Newberry, but 
as they were assigned to a Newberry comjiany, I record their 
names here v.'ith the others of the company. 



Company "B.'" Third Regiment. 

Here follows the list in full: Samuel N. Davidson, Captain; 
Thomas W. Gary, Captain; Thompson Connor, Captain; Wil- 
liam P. Hunter, Lieutenant; Thomas J. Lipscomb, Lieutenant; 
Milton P. Buzhardt, Lieutenant; Charles S. Davenport, Lieu- 
tenant; Samuel W. Pullig, Lieutenant; Martin B. Summer, 
1st Sergeant; James R. C. Reeder, Ist Sergeant; R. Drayton 
Maffett, 2nd Sergeant; J. Frank Clark, 4th Sergeant; Leland 
M. Speers, 1st Sergeant; J. xinderson Copeland, 3d Sergeant; 
Warren G. Peterson, 4th Sergeant; Andrew J. Livingston, 
4th Sergeant; Elijah P. Bradley, 2nd Sergeant; Andrew K. 
Tribble, 2nd Sergeant; Thomas M. Davis, 1st Corporal; John 
D. Smith, 2nd Corporal; John C. Gary, 3d Corporal; Julius 
Dean, 4th; Dennis Lark, 5th; Joseph H. Chalmers, 6th; M. 
Frank Anderson, 2nd; William W. Wallace, 6th; Andrew S. 
Speers, 6th; Henry S. Perkins, 3d; Benjamin W. Gibson, 4th; 
Robert Workman. 6th; Pickens J. Stevens, 6th; Middleton 
Suber, 1st. 

Privates— Elijah A. Brooks, Kay Burton, J. Calvin Butler, Wil- 
liam Bishop, John Bishop, A. W. Bailey (Spartanburg), David 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBRT. 389 

Brown (Spartanburg), John A. Brown (Spartanburg), Ephraim A. 
Butler, I. Newton Butler, Bluford R. Butler, Daniel M. Butler, 
Isaac P. Cannon, Lewis F. Crooks, John A. B. Crooks. Ebenezer 
P. Chalmers, Daniel F. Craddock, Theodore Craddock, Joseph G. 
Chupp, John Cole, John B. Campbell, Jesse P. Cleland, Gilbert 
E. Clark, Robert Cannon. David L. Clamp, James B. Chappell, 
Harrison Davenport, Ephraim W. Davenport, W. Philip Daven- 
port, John Dalrymple, Asa P. Davis, Daniel P. Davis, Joshua T. 
Davis, James H. Dumas, J. C. Davenport, John S. Floyd, John 
N. Floyd, J. Wistar Gary, Martin H. Gary, Charles M. Gary, 
Jesse Gary, Sanders B. Griffin, "William B. Griffin, William 
Ac. Grimes, Thomas A. Grimes, Merideth Gibson, "William "W. 
Gibson, James "W. Golding, John Galloway, Thomas J. Gra- 
ham, Robert P. Green, John F. Golding, David Harp, Green 
T. Hopkins, "William C. Harmon, Hugh T. Harmon, John S. B. 
Jones, William Johnson CSpartanburg), "W. Ross Johnson, "Wil- 
liam A. James, "William H. King, Walter J. Keller, James M. 
Lark, Jesse E. Lyles, Henry Livingstone, Emanuel Livingston, 
Euclydus C. Longshore, Andrew J. Longshore, James "W. Mc- 
Kittrick, J. Henry "Middloton, Jeff L. Moates, Florida Moates, 
Daniel B. Montgomery, R. N. McElhenny, John M. Neel, 
Thomas M. Neel, James M. Pitts, "William Pitts, Joseph Pitts, 
David Pitts, A. Newton Pitts, Elam Richey, Alfred M. Reeder, 
Jr., Samuel J. Robinson C Spartanburg), "William W. Reid, "Wil- 
liam Reedier, John S. Spruel, William F. Spniel, John P. Stewart, 
David R. Senn, Richard S. Satterwhite, Graves R. Scurry, G. 
Pinckney Stirling, G. Wash. Sadler, George A. Suber, Andrew 
Suber, Calvin Thrift, George W. Thrift, R. W. Templeton, War- 
ren W. Willingham, John A. Workman, James M. Workman, 
Perry Workman, J. Christopher Whitman, George F. White, 
George F. Wells, Wilson W. Waldrop, Barnett Williams, Har- 
rison Workman. 

Of these Lieutenant W. P. Hunter and Privates Robert Work- 
man and William W. Gibson were killed at the battle of the 
Wilderness; Lieutenant M. P. Buzhardt at Gettysburg, Pa.; 
Lieutenant C. S. Davenport and Private Jesse Gary at Sharps- 
burg, Md. ; Privates E. A. Butler, Daniel P. Davis, Andrew J. 
Longshore and Samuel J. Robinson at Fredericksburg, Va. ; 
Privates Lewis T. Crooks at Chickamauga; John Galloway at 
Knoxville, Tenn. ; John S. Spruel at Savage Station. Total, 13 
killed during the war. 



390 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

The following (Jied of wounds leceived in battle, viz.: 1st 
Sergeant James E. C. Reeder, 8d Sergeant J. A.nderson 
Copeland, Privates Ephraim W. Davenport, Gibson Merideth, 
J. Henry Middleton, Chickamauga ; died at same place. James 
M. Pitts, Savage Station; died at Winchester, Va. William 
Pitts, Savage Station; died at Manchester, Va. William Spruel, 
Savage Station; died at same place. George A. Suber, Fred- 
ericksburg; died at Richmond, Va. Warren W. Willingham, 
not known where wounded; died at Columbia, S. C. Total, 10. 

The following died during the war from hardships and dis- 
eases incident thereto: Captain S. N. Davidson, Petersburg, Va. ; 
1st Sergeant Martin B. Summer, Gettysburg, Pa. ; 4th Sergeant 
J. Frank Clark (at home), Laurens, S. C. ; 1st Corporal Thomas 
M. Davis, at Manassas, Va. ; 3rd Corporal John C. Gary (at 
home), Newberry, S. C. ; Private W. Frank Anderson, at Rich- 
mond; Private Middleton Suber, at Culpeper, Va. ; Private 
William F. Bishop (at home), Newberry; Isaac P. Cannon and 
Theodore Craddock, at Richmond; Joseph G. Chupp, John Cole, 
place of death unknown. [It is probable that these two were 
special friends and comrades and that they died at some hum- 
ble house, tended by kind hands, together, as they could have 
wished.] Jesse P. Cleland died at his home in Newberry; E. 
Gilbert Clark, Richmond; William B. Griffin, Charlottesville, 
Va. ; James W. Golding, New Market, Tenn. ; David Harp, Cul- 
peper; William H. King, at his home in Newberry; James W. 
Lark, Manassas Junction; Jesse E. Lyles, Richmond; Henry 
Livingston, Staunton, Va. ; Jeff. L. Moates, Winchester; Alfred 
M. Reeder, Jr., at home, Newberry; Andrew Suber, Calvin Thrift, 
Culpeper. Total, 25. 

It is thus seen that in a company of 141 men the total number 
of deaths occurring during the war was 48, 10 of whom were 
killed in battle and 13 mortally wounded; and 25 died of dis- 
eases and hardships incident to the war. 

Many of those who survived were wounded in battle, some 
quite severely and some as many as four or five times. Thomp- 
son Connor was wounded four times. Savage Station, Strasburg, 
Gettysburg, Avery sboro; L. M. Speers five times. Savage Sta- 
tion, Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Wilderness, Strasburg; 
Warren G. Peterson four times. Savage Station, Fredericks- 
burg, Chickamauga, Wildei-ness, and being disabled was retired 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 391 

from service; Andrew J. Livingston twice, Savage Station and 
"Wilderness, leg amputated; John Drayton Smith twice, Get- 
tysburg and Wilderness. His arm was amputated and he was 
discharged. He is now well and hearty, and long may he live 
to do the State good service. Daniel M. Butler was wounded 
once, at Chancellorsville; Philip W. Dalrymple twice, at Sav- 
age Station and Knoxville; John Dalrymple, once, Knoxville; 
Asa P. Davis, twice. Wilderness and Savage Station; Joshua T. 
Davis, once, Fredericksburg; Martin H. Gary, once, Knoxville; 
Euclydus C. Longshore, twice, Fredericksburg and Knoxville; 
James W. McKittrick, twice, Fredericksburg and Wilderness; 
Joseph Pitts, G. W. Sadler, G. W. Thrift, once each. Savage 
Station. Total, 16 wounded who lived through the war. The 
others escaped unhurt. Some few were discharged, and some 
were transferred to other commands. 

The favors of fortune seem to be very unequally distributed. 
I remember talking with some soldiers after the war, who told 
me that they never lost a day from duty during the whole 
time, either from wounds or sickness; while some, whenever 
they went into battle, were almost sure to be hit. 

In The Century for May, 1S88, there is a very interesting 
paper on the "Chances of Being Hit in Battle," and the sta- 
tistics therein given agree very nearly with the casualties of 
the company whose fortunes we have been considering. This 
company at Marie's Heights had thirty-six men under fire dur- 
ing, or nearly, the whole day. The next morning there were 
only four able to answer to roll call. The other thirty-two 
were not ail killed nor mortally wounded, but were broken 
down and weary almost to death, so as to be temporarily dis- 
abled. 



Company "E," Third Regiment. 

The roll of Company E, Third Regiment, with the list of 
killed and wounded, here follows: James D. Nance, Captain; 
John K. G. Nance, Captain; Robert H. Wright, Captain; Ed- 
ward S. Bailey, 1st Lieutenant; John S. Hair, 2nd Lieutenant; 
B. S. James, 3d Lieutenant; D. Julius Hentz, 3d Lieutenant; 
Richard H. Haltiwanger, 2nd; Pickens B. Langford, 3d; Rob- 
ert L. Wier (Laurens), 3d; Thomas S. Moorman, 1st, 2nd; 



392 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

James N. Martin, 8d; Joseph E. Cofield, 2nd, 3d; Young J. 
Pope, 1st Sergeant; Calhoun F. Boyd, 1st Sergeant; W. Dray- 
ton Rutherford, 2nd; Thomas H. Lake, 1st; John S. RuflP, 1st; 
Thomas M. Paysinger, 2nd Corporal; William H. Thompson, 
2nd Corporal; Samuel R. Chapman, 2d Sergeant; Andrew J. 
Kilgore, 3d; Beauford S. Buzhardt, -Ith; H. Ba,chman Reid, 
4th; William Hood, 4th Sergeant; Thaddeus S. Duncan, 4th; 
Drayton W. Ramage, Corporal; Richard A. Leavell, Corporal; 
Thomas G. Sloan, Corporal; John Blats, Corporal; John R. 
Harris, Corporal. 

Privates — John K. Anderson, Jasper N. Abrams, Calvin B. 
Adams, Samuel L. Atchison, R. W .Adkins, Henry M. Assman 
(Lexington), Haman Brantley, Henry C. Bernhard (Lexing- 
ton), Willipm H. Blats, John F. Bell (Laurens), Jerome 
D. Bruce, William W. Boazman, Ed. Boazman, Grant Boaz- 
mau, A. W. Bramlett (Laurens), David C. Boozer, Erskine 
P. Boozer, William Pitts Boyd, Charlie H. Bridges, Thomas 
C. Brown, Jeff. E. Brown, James Blackburn (Laurens), Wil- 
liam A. Bailey (left the service 1S02), J. Calvin Butler, Archie 
B. Canedy, M. Pinckney Cline, J. Edward Caldwell, A. B. 
Collins, George Clamp, James S. Cameron, J. Presley Cam- 
eron, Samuel D. Cromer, Joseph H. Davis, John Davis, James 
Davis, S. S. Derrick, John G. Duckett, John P. Ducke(t, Joseph 
Duckett, Thomas Duckett, William Y. Fair, Robert Fair, George 
A. Fair, Michael Foot (irocured a substitute in 18(32), L New- 
ton Gary, Leonidas K. Glasgow, C. A. Graham, Henry Gallman, 
Monroe M. Harris, John R. Harris, Patrick H. Hargrove, Samuel 
J. Hiller, George E. Hiller, William Hatton, — . Hodge (received 
from cavalry in exchange for J. W. Miller in 1864), John A. 
Johnson, William Johnson (Georgia, received as a substitute 
for William Sultzbacher in 18G3), I. J. Kelly, George Koon, 
George Kerney (received as a substitute for M. Foot in 1862), 
J. Middleton Kibler, James Lindsay, B. H. Lovelace, Thomas 
M. Lake, Enoch G. Lake, William Lee (Laurens), William K. 
Lindsay (substituted for James Davis in 1863 and was killed 
at Chickamauga same year), Lawrence R. Marshall, John B. 
Mayes, Samuel T. McCoy, Samuel J. McCaughrin, William 
J. McMillan (Chester), William W. Miller, John W. Miller, 
John W. Mathis, Thomas Marshall, William Metts (Laurens), 
McDuffie Metts, W. Glenn Metts, Samuel W. Murtishaw, E. 



ANNAX,S OF NEWBERBT. 



393 



F. Neil (Laurens), Alfred E. Nance, William F. Norris (dis- 
charged in 1861 before entering service), J. Wirick Odell, Sim- 
eon Pratt, Simeon Price, Bert H. Pope, William Henry Pope, 
Thomas H. Pope, Harrington Pope, John M. Reid, William 
W. Keid, William W. Ruff, Thomas W. Sligh, Benjamin W. 
Schumpert (Georgia), O. L. Schumpert, Frank A. Sawyer, J. 
Ebenezer P. Sloan, John W. Wright, J. W. Wilson, B. Frank 
Summers, William Thompson, Hugh Renwick, Eeuben F. Kuff, 
Thomas P. Marshall, J. A. Tribble (Laurens), Caleb Wilson. 

J. H. Euff Tved through the war; J. M. H. Ruff, promoted 
to Assistant Surgeon; Peter Rodelsperger, discharged in 1861 
at expiration of term; Jacob Rice served through; John W. 
Riser served through; Wallace W. Riser, wounded at Chan- 
cellorsville, Gettysburg and Cedar Creek, lived through the 
war; George C. Riser served through; Moorman Ruff served 
through; George Sligh, discharged in 1861, physical disability 
W^illiam C. Sligh, wounded at Fredericksburg, served through 
Hillary W. Suber, wounded at Fredericksburg, served through 

G. Benjamin Suber, transferred to 5th Cavalry in 1862; Frank 
A. Souter, wounded at Sharpsburg, disabled and discharged; 
William Sultzbacher, substituted by William Johnson in 1862; 
D. V. Scurry enlisted for State service only; William T. Tar- 
rant, promoted to Lieutenant, assigned to another company, in 
1865; J. Owens Turnipseed served through the war; Daniel B. 
Wheeler, wounded at Savage Station, disabled and discharged 
in 1862; Mike H. Witt, transferred to cavalry in 1862, served 
through; Thomas R. Wilson, transferred to Company C, Third 
Regiment, 1861; Samuel J. Wood, discharged at Manassas in 
1861; Henry S. Wingard, wounded at Knoxville, discharged 
from Union prison at surrender, 1865; Silas Wedeman served 
through; Y7. Pleasant Willingham served through; Thomas 
W. Weir (Laurens), served through; A. J. Willingham, served 
through; Julius Zobel, wounded at Knoxville, leg amputated, 
discharged from Union prison at close of war; Jesse D. Hornsby 
served through; James Y. Harris served through. 

The following is a list of those killed in battle : Richard 
Henry Haltiwanger, 2nd Lieutenant, Gettysburg; Pinckney P. 
Langford, 3d Lieutenant, Gettysburg; Bluford S. Buzhardt, 
Sergeant, Savage Station; John R. Harris, Corporal, Sharps- 
burg; Richard A. Leavell, Corporal, Knoxville; Privates: L. 



394 ANNALS OF NEWBERRT. 

Pinckney Glymph, Knoxville; W. Calvin Butler, Gettysburg 
Erskine S. Boozer, Strasburg; George Clamp, Cold Harbor 
John C. Davis, Cbancellorsville; William Hatton, James River 
George W. Koon, Chickamauga; Jasper Kelly, Cedar Creek 
William R. Lindsay, Chickamauga; Samuel McCoy, Sharps- 
burg; W. J. IMcMillan, Fredericksburg; John B. Mayes, Chick- 
amauga; WMliam Henry Pope, Avery sborough, N. C. ; William 
W. Reid, Chancellorsville; William W. Ruff, Petersburg; 
Thomas W^. Sligh, Gettysburg; Benjamin W. Schumpert (son 
of Amos K. Schumpert, of Georgia, who went from Newberry; 
was a student in Newberry College when the war began, vol- 
unteered, joined the Quitman Rifles, and was killed in battle 
at Chickamauga in 1803); Frank A. Sawyer, Knoxville: J. 
Ebenezer P. Sloan, Knoxville; John W. Wright, Sharpsburg; 
W. W. Wilson, Strasburg. Total, 20. 

The following died from wounds received in battle: H. Bach- 
man Reid, Corporal, died at Richmond, wounded at Savage 
Station; Thomas G. Sloan, Corporal, died at Newberry, wounded 
at Chickamauga; David C. Boozer, died at Lynchburg, wounded 
at Second Wildernes'^, 1804; William H. Johnson, died in Geor- 
gia, wounded at Chickamauga; B. Frank Summers, died at 

Richmond, wounded at ; William Thompson, died near 

Richmond from wounds received in a skirmish near that city. 
Total, 0. 

The following died of disease during the war: Robert L. 
Weir, near Centreville, Va., 1801; Thomas Lake, 1st Sergeant, 
Fairfax, Va. ; Thomas G. Harris, Corporal, Winchester, 1S02; 
Drayton W. Ramage, Corporal, Chancellorsville, 1802; Jasper 
N. Abrams, Private, Charlottesville, Va., 1801; — . Atkins, 1801; 
Henry C. Buzhardt (Lexington, S. C), Richmond, 1801; George 
C. Derrick (S. S.) Culpeper, 1801; George A. Fair, Culpeper 
or Staunton, Va., 1801; Robert P. Fair, Newberry or Columbia, 
S. C, 1801; John A. Johnson, Newberry or Charlottesville, 
1801; William Lee (Laurens), Union prison; Thomas P. Mar- 
shall, Chattanooga, 1803; Simeon Price, Staunton, 1804; Bert 
Pope, Newberry, 1802; John Reid, Richmond, 1802; Hugh Ren- 
wick, Richmond; Reuben F. Ruff, Culpeper; J. A. Tribble (Lau- 
rens), Camp Johnson, S. C. ; Caleb Wilson, Richmond. Total, 20. 

We thus And that in this company of 107 men, 26 were 
killed in battle, mortally wounded, and 20 died from sick- 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 395 

ness and hardships incident to camp life; total, 52. Making 
the loss of Company E a little greater than that of Company B. 

Captain James D. Nance, first Captain of this company, was 
also killed during the war, bnt his death occurred while he 
was Colonel of the regiment, having been elected to that office 
in 1862, on the reorganization of the regiment after the ex- 
piration of the first year's term of service. 

No man, perhaps, was ever more endeared to his personal 
friends than Colonel James D. Nance. I have heard some of 
them speak of him often as the Chevalier Bayard of Newberry, 
a man without fear and without reproach. No higher praise 
can be given to a soldier than this. He was a strict discip- 
linarian, and could allow no breach of military duty. But as 
an officer, whether as Captain or Colonel, he never forgot nor 
neglected to see to the comfort and welfare of his men. 

He was quite a young man at the time of his death, not 
yet twenty-seven years old, having been born October 10th, 
1837, and killed in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6th, 1864. 

General Johnston's army, of which I was at that time not 
magna pars, but a very small unit in the 19th S. C. V., had 
just crossed the Etowah River on the retreat from Daltoa 
towards Atlanta, and had stopped to rest for the afternoon 
and night, when I received a letter from home informing me 
of the death of Colonel Nance; that he had been killed in the 
battle of the Wilderness. The information made me very sad, 
not only on account of the loss to the country, but the loss 
was also personal, for he was a young man for whom I en- 
tertained a warm feeling of friendship. This was about the 
middle of May. Not many days thereafter we fought the 
battle of New Hope Church, or Pumpkin Vine Creek, as it 
was called by the other side, in which we inflicted heavy loss 
upon the Federals with very little detriment to ourselves. I 
remember as well, as though it were only yesterday, the ap- 
pearance of the road, the scenery around, and the church as 
we approached it. The day was lovely, warm but not hot, 
the road was firm and good, of a white or grayish soil. When, 
distant about a hundred, or perhaps two hundred yards of the 
church and just before we halted, I said to my comrades near: 
"Boys, this would be a mighty pretty place for a fight." 
Little did I know that we would be fighting so soon. Very 



396 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

soon the line was halted, marched off into the edge of the 
woods on our right, and in a short time the two armies, or 
portions thereof, were hotly engaged. One of my comrades, 
who was near me at that time, J. D. Smith Livingston, is now 
living just outside the corporate limits of the town of New- 
berry; and one whom I am now glad to call friend, but whom 
at that time I had never seen, as he was a Georgia boy, 
George McWhirter, was also in that fight, and now lives at 
Newberry. Not many days thereafter, on the night of Sunday, 
the 29th of May, I received a wound which disabled me, sent 
me to the rear, and rendered me unfit for active service the 
balance of the war. And even now, more than twenty-five 
years after the wound was received, it still pains me. 

General Howard in his article in the Century Magazine 
descriptive of the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, says that 
it rained almost incessantly during the month of May, 1864. 
In this ho is mistaken. It was not May, but June. The 
month of May was very pleasant, with scarcely any rain — no 
heavy rains except one, which fell in the early part of the 
night of the Sth, or 9th, I think the 9th, and that was one 
of the greatest downpours it was ever my fortune, or misfor- 
tune, to be exposed to. From that time to the end of the 
month I felt only one slight shower. I was placed in hospital 
on the 31st of May, at Atlanta. Soon after, a rainy spell set 
in and all through June it rained almost continually, so that 
the wells dug for the benefit of the hospital became filled 
"with water, as the nurses told mo. 

Others of my comrades, who were in the fight at New Hope 
Church, were killed at Atlanta, and some not killed whom I 
have never seen since. One brother, Thomas E. Chapman, was 
mortally wounded, but lived to get home. W. S. Peterson, 
captain of my company and a native of Newberry, was killed. 
J. D. S. Livingston, a Newberrian now, was severely wounded; 
James M. Abney, his brother-in-law, was wounded. Jacob 
Crouch, the father of P. N. Crouch, a former landlord of the 
Newberry Hotel, was killed. There was one other Newberrian 
besides myself, a member of Captain Peterson's Company, 19th 
S. C. v., whose name should be inserted in these Annals — 
William Gentry, who died in camp at Lightwood Knot Springs, 
near Columbia, S. C. John C. Wheeler, brother of D. B. 



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397 



Wheeler, bom ia Newberry, color bearer of the Regiment, 
brave as the bravest, was killed at Atlanta. 

In Colonel Johnson Hagood's command there was only one 
from Newberry, Randall Johnstone, son of my old friend Silas 
Johnstone, Esq. Only four, if my information be correct, in 
the Fourteenth Regiment: Christian H. Suber, Esq., Quarter- 
master with rank of Captain, promoted to Brigade Quarter- 
master with rank of Major, (Major Suber died at his home in 
Newberry, 12th March, 1890, in his 62nd year); Robert L. 
McCaughrin succeeded Major Suber as Quartermaster in 1802, 
with the rank of Captain. He is now a good citizen of the 
town and President of the Newberry National Bank and of 
the Newberry Cotton Mills; Albert Boyce, who was killed at 
the battle of Gaines' Mill; and Henry McCullongh — died since 
the war. 

The following were members of the Macbeth Artillery and 
were all still living May, 1888: R. S. Davidson, J. D. David- 
son, John Henderson, L. H. Sims, J. D. Epps, Willie Morris 
and James Morris, to which names I have been told I must 
add the following: J. P. Sims, who was wounded, and James 
Redpath — died since the war. 



Roll of Company "G," Thirteenth Regiment, S. C. V. 

William Lester, Captain, promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel, 
died 1886; J. B. Fellers, 1st Lieutenant; John F. Banks, 2nd 
Lieutenant; J. H. Cannon, 3d Lieutenant; J. M. Wheeler, 1st 
Sergeant; J. D. A. Kibler, 2nd Sergeant; J. L. Fellers, 3d 
Sergeant; W. C. Hussey, 4th Sergeant; A. P. Dominick, 5th 
Sergeant; H. M. Singley, 1st Corporal; B. A. Boozer, 2nd 
Corporal, died from wounds July 3d, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa.; 
M. M. Pitts, 3d Corporal, dead; A. H. Wheeler, 4th Corporal. 

Privates — W. C. Aull, died from wounds in 1863; J. M. 
AuU, Geo. B. Aull; G. S. Bobb, died 15th April, 1862, from 
wounds; J. F. Bobb, died 14th May, 1862; J. R. Y. Brown, 
died 3d September, 1862, from wounds; J. B. Boland, died 
August 1st, 1862; S. N. Baird, Carwile Baird; W. A. Bedenbaugh, 
died July 8th, 1863; L. S. Bowers; Newton Boozer, dead; Henry 
Boozer, died in 1890; R. C. Boozer, died since the war; J. M. 
Bowers, died in 1884; J. S. Bowers, died at Petersburg, Va., 



398 ANNALS OF NEWBERET. 

from wounds; W. F. B. Bobb, killed 29th August, 18G2, at 
Second Manassas; J. H. Counts; P. W. Counts, died 18G4 — 
smallpox; J. A. Counts, died July 7tli, 18G3; P. B. Cook, 
killed 29th August, 1S63, at Second Manassas; S. A. Connelly, 
J. C. Counts; William Chapman, died January 19th, 1803; 
P. C. Cook, kiHed 29th August, 1803, at Second Manassas; 
J. T. P. Crosson; Carwile Clamp, dead; W. P. Counts, died 
5ih July, 1802, from wounds; William Connelly; Ed. Cox, 
died 1804; J. W. Dennis, killed in battle; M. V. Dalton, died 
July 1st, 1802; A. B. C. Dominick, killed at Manassas Junc- 
tion; W. T. Dennis, D. L. Dennis; J. M. Duncan, died De- 
cember 20th, 1802; Mord. Duncan, dead; D. T. Dominick, J. 
H. Dominick, Henry Daniels, A. Y. Enl )w, Nathan Enlow; 
John Elmore, dead; W. L. Fellers, died September 1st, 1802; 
W. W. Griffith; J. C. Griffith, died 28th May, 1802; Geo. P. 
Griffith; H. F. Holloway, died in 1887; H. C. Hartman, died 
during the war; Geo. E. Hawkins; L. P. Hawkins, killed in 
retreat from Petersburg, Va. ; Joseph Hiller; Jacob Hawkins, died 
in 1892; Wm. Jennings, J. F. Kibler, M. D. Kinard, S. J. Kinard, 
T. D. Kinard, Andrew Kinard, J. A. C. Koon; B. King, died 
since the war; J. A. Kinard, died since the war; M. L. Kinard, 
J. P. Kinard, Washington Lever, Charles Lester; George Liv- 
ingston, died in hospital; N. Livingston, dead; Leander Long, 
S. Lagrone, John A. /Long, M. M. Long, M. L. Long, Frank 
Moss, B. H. Miller, "^G. S. Moore; John McCullough, killed at 
Bloody Bend; J. H. McCullough, died since the war; J. D. 
Morris, died during the war; W^m. C. McNinch, killed 1st 
July, 1803, at Gettysburg ;^'B. B. Moore, killed at Gettysburg, 
July 1st, 1803; Ferdinand Morris, died since the war; Joab 
Mathis, killed at Gettysburg July 1st, 1803; Ben Mathis, died 
July 13th, 1803;-^. L. Moore, A. H. Miller, A. A. Nates; G. H. 
Nates, dead; Wm. Nobles, dead; Joseph Nobles, J. N. Parrot, 
J. E. Quattlebaum, Jefferson Quattlebaum; S. P. Quattlebaum, 
killed August 29th, 1802, at Second Manassas; J. A. Rikard, 
killed at Gettysburg; A. J. Rankin, H. C. Rankin; D. F. Reid, 
died 25th December, 1801; T. W. Reid, died during the war; 
John Rikard, dead; J. M. Rikard, killed at Sjiottsylvania; 
Levi Rikard, died during the war; W. M. Stockman, died July 
0th, 1802; J. H. Stockman, killed in battle; J. O. Shealy, killed 
at Deep Bottom; Wm. H. Shealy, killed in battle; J. E. Smith, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 399 

died during the war; J. W. Smith, died in ISOl; D. C. Singley, 
died September 18th, 1863, from wounds; F. P. Shealy, John 
Shealy; E. K. Schumj^ert, died since the war; J. J Summers, 
dead; D. H. Taylor, J. M. Taylor; Drayton Taylor, died July 
25th, 1862; S. P. Taylor, John F. Taylor; J. H. Wise, died 
September 30th, 1861; L. E. Wise; O. Simeon Werts, James 
Wood; Charles Wilson, died in Federal prison; D. M. W^ard, 
Jefferson Wicker, James M. Werts. 

Officers, 13; private?, 127 — total officers and men, 140. Killed 
in battle, 16; mortally wounded, 7; died from sickness, 24 — 
total deaths during the war, 47. Died since the war, 21 — 
grand total, 68. Still surviving, 71. 

Company G, known as the DeKalb Guards, was organized 
at Prosperity on the 17th of August, 1861, and was mustered 
into the service on the 4th of September, by Captain Black? 
C. S. Army, having arrived at Camp Johnson on the 26th of 
August. It numbered, when received into service, seventy pri- 
vates and thirteen commissioned and non-commissioned officers, 
making a total of eighty three. It afterwards, from time to 
time, received accessions, so as to make the whole number 
enrolled one hundred and twelve. Left Lightwood Knot Spring 
on the 3d of November and arrived at Charleston the same day 
at 11 o'clock P. M. On the 7th were moved to North Edisto 
Island; on the 13th by steamer Marion to White Point, where 
they lay one night, and took up line of march next morning 
for Adams Run, on the Savannah Railroad, at which place 
they stayed two nights and one day, and then moved to Coo- 
sawhatchie Station, where they joined the regiment on the 16th, 
the regiment having been separated at Camp Evans, Charleston, 
S. C. On the 13th December, 1861, left Coosawhatchie for 
Pocotaligo, which place they left on the 19th for Combahee 
Ferry. At Camp Pemberton the DeKalb Guards and the New- 
berry Rifles were detached from the regiment and encamped 
near Far Bluff, on the Combahee River, 26th December, 1861, 
and named their camp "Newberry." Pickets go to Far Bluff 
and Field's Point. The DeKalb Guards left Camp Newberry 
on the 11th of January, 1862, and on the 21st arrivpd at the 
headquarters of the regiment at C imp Pemberton. Here the 
company was sent to guard the C iarlestoa aal Savannah R il- 
road from Salkehatchie to Ashepoj Ferry. They were reliu/ad 



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ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 



about the first of February, and on the 6th left Camp Pem- 
berton and camped on the Far Bluff road, six miles from Green 
Pond Station. 

Captain Lester's record of the movements of his company 
ends here. There are a few notes and memoranda of trials 
and punishments of some non-commissioned oflBcers and soldiers 
for misconduct, and notes of promotions of others, and memo- 
randa of the deaths of some. At what time his company and 
the regiment were ordered to Virginia, he does not say, but it 
was early in 1862, Mr. Caldwell, in his "History of Gregg's 
(McGowan's) Brigade," which was composed of three regiments 
— Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth — says that it was ordered 
to Virginia in April, 1862. As this company formed part of 
the Thirteenth Eegiment, which was part of McGowan's Brig- 
ade, you will find its history traced until the close of the war 
in Mr. Caldwell's history of that brigade, which, I must be 
permitted to say here, is a valuable and well written work. 

William Lester, Captain of Company G, 13th S. C. V. — 
raised to the rank of Colonel before the close of the war — was 
a man of more than ordinary merit. He was the son of Allen 
Lester and was born in Newberry County. When the war 
broke out he was peacefully pursuing his business as a farmer, 
but, like a true citizen, he soon offered his services to his 
country, which he served with honor and fidelity until the close 
of the contest. Some of his comrades have told me that on 
the field of battle and in times of the greatest danger he was 
as calm, cool and collected as it was possible for a man to be, 
or as ho himself might have been when at home entertaining 
a welcome guest. He lived for some years after the war, and 
when his work was ended here he passed peacefully and hope- 
fully into that other world where, we hope, there are no wars. 



Company "G," Second Regiment, State Troops. 

Other company rolls s^iould precede the one I give now, but 
as I have not received them yet I proceed to give the names 
of officers and men of Company G, Second Regiment of State 
Troops, who were sent to the coast near Pocotaligo, S. C, in 
1863: George H. Chapman, Captain; John R. Spearman, George 
Shealy and William R. Lane, Lieutenants. The other officers, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 401 

sergeants and other non-commissioned, I do not now remember, 
except Frederick Cromer, Orderly Sergeant; Privates: William 
Chapman, John A. Chapman, Archibald Chapman, R. L. Bradley, 
Robert Pratt, Matthias Miller, John Miller, Jacob Kibler, James 
Sloan, William Caldwell, William Caldwell, W. W. Waldrop, 
Drayton Waldrop, James Mangum, Martin Bickley, Simeon 
Bickley, Sampson Bickley, C. C. Teague, Allen Nichols, Yates 
Myers, George Mayer, Drayton Cureton, Jesse Dennis, James 
Hunter, John Mathis, Allen Hawkins, Jacob Hawkins, John 
Boozer, David Boozer, Daniel Amick, Henry Amick, Levi 
Amick, George Counts, John Counts, Saunders Cummalander, 
Middleton Cummalander, A. W. Bundrick, — . Weed, Joel Wise, 
John Epting, — . Epting, Levi Sheppard, John R. Bangle, 
James Cromer, Matthias Wicker, Jefferson Wicker, Anderson 
Wicker, Dempson King, John Wedeman, — . Haiti wanger, 
John McCullongh, Lewis Perkins, William Summers, — . Kib- 
ler, John Riser, Washington Lorick, Stanmore B. Lang^ord, 
James Stillwell, M. Aaron Dominick, George Rikard, Stan- 
more Black, Christian H. Enlow, Noah EdIow, Jacob We^ts, 
Henry A. Bailey, — . Balentine, Wm. D. Frick, J. W. B. Leve", 
John Livingston, John R. Lake, C. H. Kingsmore, James F. 
Harrington. Total, 77 rank and file. 

Some few were from Lexington; but I \Yill let their names 
remain, as nearly all were from Newberry. 

These troops were called out for six months, and during the 
latter part of their service they were stationed in the swamp 
region not far from old Pocotaligo, where a fatal kind of sick- 
ness attacked them and carried off four or five of their num- 
ber. I have since learned that it was meningitis. Several died 
in the tent on the opposite side of the street in front of the 
one occupied by the mess of which I was a member. There 
was one remarkable fact in regard to this sickness which, I 
think, is worthy of note. The lines of tents ran from north 
to south, and the tent occupied by myself and mess was on 
the western side of the street, facing the east. In our tent we 
had no sickness .whatever, and there was very little, if any, all 
along the line on the western side — no deaths. Whatever may 
have been the cause of the different states of health on the 
different sides of the street, I know not; but such is the truth 
of the case. The western side was nearly or entirely exempt 
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402 ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

from sickness, while the eastern liad many cases, some of which 
did, indeed, recover. One lingered at home for several months 
and then died; one died on the train on his way home. The 
greater number died in a few days from the first attack, and 
one in less than twenty -four hours, having lost consciousness 
almost immediately. 

Some few of this company were discharged soon after their 
arrival at McPhersonville, as being unfit and unable to undergo 
the hardships of camp life and to discharge their duties as 
•soldiers. One of these was my old friend, William Frick, a 
good man and true, who was incurably lame, having been a 
cripple ever since he was fourteen years of age. Some were 
detailed for light duty, at home or elsewhere. So that I lost 
eight of them for the remainder of the war. 

John Mathis died in camp in less than twenty -four hours 
after he was taken sick; Drayton Careton on the way home; 
John Boozer at home, after lingering several months. There 
were, I think, some other deaths in camp, but my memory fails 
me here. R. T. Bradley and Staumore Langl'ord died in ser- 
vice after we were discharged from Pocotaligo. James Hunter 
also died daring the war. 

Jacob Kibler, after several months, procured a substitute; 
and so the name of Willis Philips must be recorded here as a 
member of Captain Chapman's company, Second Regiment State 
Troops. 

This regiment was disbanded and discharged at the expira- 
tion of the term of service, and those who were liable to duty, 
after a few weeks' furlough, sought other commands. This writer 
cast his lot with Company G, commanded by Captain M. S. 
Peterson (at the time, however, under command of Captain 
Chatham), Nineteenth Regiment S. C. Volunteers; Gabriel Man- 
igault, Brigadier-General; — . Shaw, Lieutenant-Colonel, com- 
manding the regiment. 

It was delightful to pass from the swampy, submerged coun- 
try where we had bee a camped near Pocotaligo, to the region 
of breezy hills and snow-tipped mountains, ijear Dalton, Ga. 
While in winter quarters there, near the close of winter, in 
March, I think, there came a fall of snow one night, and when 
we were called out to roll-call in tbe morning we found several 
inches of snow on the ground. About nine o'clock a regular 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY, 403 

battle begaa between two different brigades, or divisions, of the 
army, lasting several hours. This writer was on ths losing 
side, was beaten and taken prisoner. However, I fell into kind 
kands and was well treated. That was my last snow battle, 
at this writing — March 7th, 1892 — just twenty-eight years ago. 

Captain W. J. Peterson was a native of Newberry County, 
and was born near Saluda, on an old road, long disused, I 
think, running from Higgins' Ferry down the river by William 
Wilson's plantation, Mrs. Peterson's and others, to New Chapel. 
He grew to manhood in the county, taught school several years 
at or near the Dead Fall; married, in Edgefield, a sister of 
this historian; after marriage cai'ried on mercantile business at 
Dead Fall (name now obsolete); finally bought land in Edge- 
field and moved to that county, where he was living, engaged 
in farming, when the war broke out. On the organization of 
the company he was elected captain, which position he held 
until Hood's disastrous battles at Atlanta, iu one of which he 
was killed, shot through the head while charging, sword in 
hand, at the head of his company. He was a bravo man and 
true, and as he was a native of this county I felt bound to 
record his name and this brief sketch in these Annals. 

His brother, John T. Peterson, was Ordinary or Probate 
Judge of the county for several years, after the war. His 
knowledge of the laws pertainmg to the duties of his office 
was good and his decisions were seldom, if ever, reversed. 
He died at his home on the 19th of June, 1889. He had 
good literary taste and judging from some stories and sketches 
of his that I have read in print and in manuscript, I feel 
sure that, under propitious circumstances, he might have at- 
tained to some distinction in the world of letters. 

I hope the reader will pardon me for a brief recital here 
of some merely personal reminiscences, especially as they are 
connected with descendants of Newberry people. 

While in winter quarters near Dalton, Ga., I met and be- 
came acquainted with Lieutenant Stephen P. Chapman, of the 
24th Alabama Regiment, a grandson of my father's brother, 
Elijah Chapman, who had married Miss Elizabeth Martin, of 
Edgefield, and had moved to Clark County, Alabama, while 
still a young man. Lieutenant Chapman was taken prisoner 
near Dalton, while in command of picket line, was carried to 



404 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 



Johnson's Island prison, where he remained a captive for ten 
months. He survived the war and at this date is still living 
in Alabama. While lying in hospital at Forsyth, Ga., another 
relative named Fluker, a grandson of my father's brother, Jo- 
seph Chapman, came to see me and made himself known to 
me. He was on furlough for a short time, having been 
wounded, I think. I do not know whether he was a relative 
of Mr. Pink. Fluker, whose experience as a hotel keeper was 
so disastrous, as related by Mr. Richard Malcolm Johnstone, 
of Georgia, but I think not, as he appeared to be a young- 
man of very excellent sense and not at all puffed up with 
overweening self-conceit. At the same period of time, another 
near kinsman, a cousin. Rev. Henry O'Neall Chapman, son of 
my lather's brother Lewis, and grandson of Henry O'Neall, 
one of the old Quakers of Bush River, was chaplain of a reg- 
iment in Sherman's army. He passed through Georgia and 
South Carolina, and through the lov/er part of Newberry 
County in which he was bora, with that army in its triumphant 
progress. Ours was truly a fratricidal war. 

While giviog these personal reminiscences I may be per- 
mitted to mention that after the expiration of my furlough for 
sixty da3's when I reported to hospital in Columbia in October 
1804, I there met, and my wound was examined and probed by. 
Dr. Todd, a brother-in-law of President Lincoln, then in the 
Confederate service. He afterwards became a citizen of this 
State and was called to see a patient at Newberry, or in New- 
berry County, some time during the year 1888. 

There are many descendants of NeAvberrians in Clarke County 
and in other parts of Alabama, in Georgia, Texas, Mississippi, 
and indeed all over the West to the golden shores of Cali- 
fornia; but their fortunes I do not know and only a few of 
their names. I can mention the names of Pugh and Coates 
and Summers, all familiar to the people of Newberry. Sidney 
Pugh in March, 1889, took his degree in medicine at the 
Medical College in New Orleans. 

I did have hopes that some one acquainted with them would 
write for these Annals the fortunes of some, at least, of the 
many families that went to the great Southwest from New- 
berry in the olden time, as did Mr. David Jones of those who 
emigrated to Ohio. I had such hopes but I fear they will 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 405 

bear no fruit. I can say, however, that Robert Furnas, a de- 
scendant of Joseph Fnrnas, a Quaker of Bush River, so fa- 
vorably mentioned by Judge O'Neall in his Annals, was, in 
1874, Governor of Nebraska. 



Roll of Company "B," First Regiment, S. C. V. 

Wlutfield Walker, Captain, age 40; volunteered January 
5, 1801; resigned March 27, 1802. Captain Walker left the 
service in Virginia and entered as colonel of a regiment in 
the We.st. E. Knotts, 1st Lieutenant, age 25; volunteered 
January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861; afterwards killed 
in battle. R. B. Ligon, 2nd Lieutenant, age 25; volunteered 
January 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. S. B. Cbappell, 
3d Lieutenant, age 27; volunteered January 5, 1801; resigned 
February, 1861. — . Douglas, 1st Sergeant, age 27; volun- 
teered January 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. Calvin S. 
Taylor, 2nd Sergeant, age 22; volunteered August 27, 1801; 
discharged May, 1862; promoted to 1st Sergeant; died from 
disease. M. Bowers, 2nd Sergeant, age 35; volunteered Jan- 
uary 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. P, Cromer, 4th 
Sergeant, age 22; volunteered January 5, 1801; discharged 
July 14, 1801. B. M. Blease, 4th Sergeant; age 40; volun- 
teered January 5, 1801; resigned August, 1803; first volunteer 
from Newberry; promoted to 3d, 2nd, 1st Lieutenant and 
Captain; severely v/ounded at Cold Harbor, which disabled 
him and compelled his i-esignation. James H. Boyd, Corporal, 
age 23; volunteered August 27, 1801; discharged December, 
1802; promoted to corporal and to sergeant. W. W. Boazman, 
Corporal, age 24; volunteered Janua:'y 5, 1801; discharged 
July 14, 1801. D. P. Goggans, Corporal, age 24; volunteered 
January 5, 1801; discharged by surrender of Army, April 10, 
1805; promoted to 3d and 2nd Sergeant, 1st Lieutenant and 
Captain; disabled in battle March 31, 1805, by loss of leg. 

B. S. Higgins, Corporal; age 23, volunteered January 5, 1861; 
killed in the charge at Cold Harbor, June 29th, 1862. James 

C. Hill, Corporal, age 23; volunteered August 27, 1861; dis- 
charged by surrender April 10, 1865; promoted to sergeant. 
E. C. McCoy, Corporal, age 24; volunteered August 27, 1801; 



406 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

retired August, 1804; lost a leg in battle at Second Manassas. 
P. B. Watts, Corporal, age 24; volunteered January 5, 1801; 
discharged July 14, 1801; afterwards killed in battle. H. 
Williams, Corporal, age 27; volunteered January 5, 1801; dis- 
charged July 14, 1801. 

Privates — Joseph Abrams, age 20; volunteered January 5, 
1861; discharged by surrender April 10, 1805; promoted to 
corporal and to sergeant. Thomas Abrams, age 21; volun- 
teered January o, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. W. J. S. 
Abrams, age 40; volunteered September 21, 1804; discharged 
at surrender April 10, 1805. J. H. Adair, age 40; volunteered 
December 24, 1803; discharged at surrender April 10, 1865. 
P. B. Aldridge, age 18; volunteered January 5, 1861; dis- 
charged July 14, 1861. Love Anderson, age 45; entered 
service October 27, 1864; killed at Petersburg, Va., April 2, 
1865. Moses Barker, age 18; entered service July 2, 1863; 
discharged at surrender. William Bean, age 20; volunteered 
January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861. James W. Beard, 
age 19; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged September 
15, 1864 — wounded and disabled. John Blats, age 22; volun- 
teered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861; S. Boozer, 
age 23; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861. 
— . Boulger, age 45; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged 
July 14, 1861. D. C. Boyd, age 20; volunteered August 27, 
1861; killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. Pinckney 
Boyd, age 21; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 
14, 1801. Pitts Boyd, age 19; volunteered January 5, 1801; 
discharged July 14, 1801. E. P. Boazman, age 20; volun- 
teered January 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. R. S. 
Bradley, age 40; entered service January, 1804; discharged at 
surrender. David I. Brown, age 45; volunteered August 27, 
1801; discharged at surrender. Good soldier: served in Mexican 
war. Wm. Burnam, age 18; volunteered January 5, 1801; died 
July, 1801. J. F. J. Caldwell, age 23; volunteered May, 1802; 
discharged at surrender; promoted to 2nd and 1st Lieutenant; 
several times severely wounded in battle. Spencer Caldwell, age 
24; entered service August 27, 1801; discharged at surrender. 
Jacob Campbell, age 20; entered service August 27, 1801; 
discharged at surrender. John Carr, age 22; volunteered Jan- 
uary 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. William Henry Carter, 



AXNALS OF NEWBERRY. 407 

age 23; volunteered January 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 
1861. Joseph A. Chalmers, age 24; volunteered August 27, 
18G1. Good soldier— killed at Cold Harbor, June 29, 1862. 
Daniel Gibbs Chambers, age 18; volunteered January 5, 1861; 
killed at Gettysburg, Pa., July 1, 1868. M. Aleck Chambers, 
age 24; volunteered January 5, 1861; supposed to have died 
in prison, July, 1863. H. Clamp, age 17; volunteered Janu- 
ary 5, 1861; died of disease December, 1861. William Clamp, 
age 25; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged by exchange 
April, 1863. Newton F. Corley, age 23; joined March 5, 1864; 
discharged at surrender. W. C. Counts, age 20; volunteered 
January 5, 1861; deserted October, 1862. James Cromer, age 
22; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861. 
J. D. Cromer, age 18; volunteered August 27, 1861; died 
November, 1862. John Caldwell, age 18; volunteered January 
5, 1861 ; died of disease August, 1862. Thomas Davenport, 
age 18; volunteered August 27, 1861; discharged at surrender. 
— . Deal, ago 22; volunteered February, 1861; discharged 
July 14, 1861. Daniel Dendy, age 24; George Denson, age 
40; James DensoQ, age 21, and Augustus Dickert, age 20, all 
volunteered January 5, 1861, and were discharged at the same 
time, July 14, 1861. Peter Duckett, age 35; entered service 
October 27, 1864; discharged January 31, 1865. J. C. Evans, 
age 40; volunteered Januaiy 5, 1861; served through the war; 
surrendered at close. Thomas Odell, age 25; volunteered July 
27, 1861; surrendered at close. John L. Parrish, age 40; 
entered service March 15, 1864; surrendered at close. B. 
Perry, age 18; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered at close. 
John Perry, age 25; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered 
at close. Burton Pope, age 17; volunteered January, 1862; 
died of disease August, 1862. Sampson Pope, age 25; volun- 
teered Janu iry 5, 1861; promoted to 3d and 1st Lieutenant, 
then Captain; aftei-wards resigned, July 12, 1862, and was 
transferred to the medical department, where he did good and 
able service. James Plumer, age 22; volunteered August 27, 
1861; promoted to corporal and to sergeant; died of wounds 
at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3, 1863. William Pulley, age 21; 
volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14. 1861. P. R. 
Ramage, age 21; volunteered July 27, 1861; died of disease 
December, 1862, very suddenly, at Fredericksburg, Va. Hayne 



408 ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

D. Reid, age 25; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged 
November, 1862, Hiram Reid, age 23; volunteered July 27, 
1861; killed at Cold Harbor, Ya., June 29, 1862. William 
Rice, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1861; surrendered at 
close. John W. Riser, age 21; W. W. Riser, age 19, William 
Ridlehuber, age 18; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged 
July 34, 1861. Warren F. Robertson, aged 40; volunteered Jvly 
21, 1861; promoted to hospital steward — did good service in 
medical department. George Rollinson, age 27; volunteered 
July 27, 1862; died of disease July, 1862. R. L. RufP, age 
25; volunteered January 5, 1861; surrendered at close. John 
Ruff, age 18; volunteered August, 1861; promoted to corporal; 
killed May 12, 1864, at Spottsylvania C. H., Va. Brave youth, 
says Captain Goggans. H. W. Ridlehuber, age 19; volun- 
teered January 5, 1861; promoted to 3d, 2nd and 1st Ser- 
geant. Brave soldier — killed at Wilderness May 5, 1864. 
James Roebuck, age 30; volunteered August 27, 1861; pro- 
moted to corporal. Good soldier — killed at Second Manassas. 
Samuel W. Sample, age 25; entered January 4, 1864; sur- 
rendered at close. Wade Sanders, age 40; volunteered July 
27, 1864; surrendered at close. William Sanders, age 23; 
volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1865. F. 
Satterwhite, age 40; volunteered May, 1862; died of disease 
1862. James S. Sims, age 21; volunteered Augiist 27, 1861; 
wounded several times; j'romoted to corporal; died of disease 
August, 1864 — good soldier. H. Snell, age 16; volunteered 
April, 1862; surrendered at close. John Stewart, age 40; en- 
tered February 1, 1864; surrendered at close. Edward Ste- 
phens, age 22; volunteered January 5, 1861; killed at Cold Har- 
bor, June 29, 1862. Thomas Stirling, age 17; volunteered Jan- 
uary 21, 1864; died of disease January, 1865. — . Stripling, 
age 45; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 
1861. Served in Mexican war. Enoch Suber, age 45; volun- 
teered July 27, 1861; died of disease December, 1862. Sam- 
uel Suber, age 25; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered at 
close. D. P. Summer, age 19; volunteered August 27, 1861; 
surrendered at close. Henry Summer, age 45; volunteered 
January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1864. H, C. Summers, 
age 21; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered at close. 
Larkin J. Summer, age 17; volunteered October 19, 1863; 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 409 

surrendered at close. Harmou Taylor, age 23; volunteered 
July 27, 1861; supposedto ha/e been killed at Wilderness, May 
5, 1864 Griffin Thomas, age IS; volunteered July 27, 1861, with 
Sharp Shooters — good soldier — killed July 27, 1864. T. 
Thornton, age 30; volunteered July 27, 1861; died from wounds 
received at Cold Harbor, June 29, 1862. Drury Todd, age 25; 
volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered at close. William 
Vance, age 21; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 
14, 1861. M. A. Voght, age 19, volunteered August 27, 1861 
— brave and intelligent youth — killed at Chancellorsville May 
23, 1863. — . Wesson, age 35; volunteered February, 1861; 
discharged July 14, 1861. James C. Wilson, age 23; volun- 
teered July 27, 1861; surrendered at close. James R. Wilson, 
age 48; volunteered July 27, 1861; promoted to corporal and 
to sergeant; surrendered at close. A. F. Workman, age 42; 
entered January 12, 1864; died of disease July, 1864. W. D. 
Workman, age 40; entered December 25, 1863; surrendered at 
close. Drury Wright, age 20; volunt'^ered January 5, 1861; 
surrendered at close. Daniel Young, age 21; volunteered July 
27, 1861; transferred to the Artillery, for special reasons, 
March, 1863. George Farbairn, age 25; volunteered January 
o, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861. D. S. Felder, age 16; 
volunteered August 27, 1861; promoted to corjDoral and to 
sergeant — brave and noble youth — killed at Jericho Ford, Va., 
May 23, 1864. E. Ford, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1861, 
discharged July 14, 1861. Eli Franklin, age 25; volunteered 
January 5, 1861; surrendered at close. George Franklin, age 
23; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861. 
William Franklin, age 27; volunteered January, 1862; sur- 
rendered at close. W. R. Franklin, age 30; volunteered Jan- 
uary 5, 1861 ; died of disease November, 1862. — . Gallaspie, 
age 22; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 
1861. George Garmany, age 24; volunteered August 27, 
1861; discharged January, 1862. John L. Glasgow, age 40; 
entered January 5, 1864; discharged March, 1864. William 
Tandy Goggans, age 22; volunteered August 27, 1861 — good sol- 
dier — killed at 2nd Manassas, August 29, 1862. John F. Golding, 
age 40; volunteered August 27, 1861; exchanged August, 1864 — 
good soldier, faithful in battle. Washington Golding, age 25; 
volunteered August 27, 1861; died of disease 1862. B. W. 



410 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Goodman, age 22; volunteered January 5, 1801; discharged 
July 14, 1801. John Harris, age 23; volunteered January 5, 
1801; discharged July 14, 1801. C. M. Harris, age 40; vol- 
unteered July 27, 1801; surrendered at close. John W. Hill, 
age 24; volunteered January 5,. 1801; discharged July 14, 

1801. John Hood, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1801; pro- 
moted to 3d, 2nd and 1st Sergeant; surrendered at close. E. 
S. Howard, age 24; volunteered August 27, 1801; promoted 
to 3d and 1st Lieutenant; disabled by Avound at Wilderness; 
retired March, 1805. N. S. Hood, age 10; entered February 
29, 1804; surrendered at close. R. \V. Hill, ago 24; volun- 
teered January 5, 1801; di''<charged July 14, 1801. — . 
Humphrey, age 40; volunteered August 27, 1801; discharged 

1802. James Hunter, age 10; volunteered August 27, 1801 — 
brave boy — killed at Chancellorsville May 3, 1803. J. K. 
Hunter, age 22; volunteered August 27, 1801; promoted to 
corporal; surrendered at close. P. S. Hunter, age 24; volun- 
teered January 5, 1801; died of wounds received at Cold 
Harbor August 1, 1802. William Hunter, age 18; volunteered 
August 27, 1801; promoted to corporal and 2nd Sergeant; 
surrendered at close. David F. Hutchison, age 40; entered 
October 27, 1804; surrendered at close. George Hutchison, 
age 22; volunteered January 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 
1801. James Hutchison, age 20; volunteered July 27, 1801; 
surrendered at close. Williams Hyler, age 23; volunteered 
May, 1802; deserted June, 1803. Frank Enlow, age 25; vol- 
unteered January 5, 1801; discharged July 14, 1801. Daniel 
Johnson, age 40; volunteered July 27, 1801; surrendered at 
close. — . Johnson, ago 25; volunteered February, 1801; dis- 
charged July 14, 1801. John Johnson, age 40; volunteered 
June, 1804; surrendered at close. William Kelly, age 35; 
volunteered July 27, 1801; surrendered at close. George D. 
Lathrop, age 10; volunteered February, 1802; surrendered at 
close. James A. Lathrop, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1801; 
surrendered at close. W. H. Lathrop, age 18; volunteered 
August 27, 1801; surrendered at close. R. S. Leek, age 18; 
volunteered August 27, 1801; died of disease at Danville, Va., 
December, 1802. W. Y. Leek, age 22; volunteered August 
27, 1801; died of disease at Suffolk, Va. — body sent home 
November, 1801. Albert Leister, age 30; volunteered January 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 411 

5, 1861 ; died suddenly of disease on Morris Island April, 1861. 
B. Leitzsey, age 20; volunteered August 27, 1861; promoted 
to corporal and to sergaant; surrendered at close. H. Little, 
age 25; volunteered January 5, 1861; discharged July 14, 
1861. James Livert, age 24; volunteered January 5, 1861; 
discharged July 14, 1861. Samuel Livingston, age 28; volun- 
teered July 27, 1861; died of disease 1862. William Lowry, 
age 40; volunteered January 5, 1861; died of wounds re- 
ceived at Second Manassas September, 1862. Burrell Lyles, 
age 18, volunteered August 27, 1861; surrendered at close. 
Erskine Lyles, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1861; promoted 
to sergeant and 3d, 2nd and 1st Lieutenant and Captain; 
died of wounds received at Second Manassas August 21), 1862. 
F. H. Lyles, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1861; killed at 
Fredericksburg, December 18, 1862. James Lane, age 16; 
volunteered August 27, 1861; killed at Chancellorsville. A. 
P. McCarty, age 25; volunteered August 27, 1861; promo- 
ted to corporal; killed at Chancellorsville. — . McCoe, age 
22; volunteered February, 1861; discharged July 14, 1861 
— an Irishman — I know nothing of his history. David Mc- 
CuUough, age 25; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered 
at close. Jas. McDavid, age 20; volunteered January 5, 1861; 
discharged July 14, 1861. David McGowan, age 27; volun- 
teered July 27, 1861; discharged November, 1861. J. C. Mc- 
Lemore, age 25; volunteered January 5, 1861; promoted to 
sergeant, to 2nd and 1st Lieutenant and to Captain; died of 
wounds received at Second Manassas September, 1862. — . 
Merchant, age 30; volunteered July 27, 1861; discharged July 
14, 1861 — (an error here in the roll). William Milligan, age 
23; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered at close. Daniel 
Montgomery, age 25; volunteered July 27, 1861; died of disease 
in 1862. Thomas Montgomery, age 18; volunteered February, 
1862; discharged January, 1863. Tho;.as Motes, age 24; vol- 
unteered July 27, 1861; died of disease November, 1862. 
John Nesley, age 40; volunteered July 27, 1861; surrendered 
at close. 

The whole number of men who saw service in this company 
from its formation January 5, 1861, to the close of the war 
was one hundred and seventy-one. Of that number there 
were killed thirty-one; died of disease and hardship twenty- 



412 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



four; desertions two. There were sixty-four discharged and 
one transferred. I suppose that some of those discharged 
afterwards joined other commands, as a number of discharges 
took place at the end of the six months' service, but how- 
many I am not now able to say. The number of officers and 
men ivounded, besides those killed, was forty. Total number 
of wounds received by the company was one hundred and 
twenty. 

This company, known as the Khett Guards, was the first 
from Newberry, formed January 5, ISGl, and was received 
into the SUde service January 14, 18G1, for six months. At 
the expiration of that term of service it was reorganized and 
received into the Confederate service August 27, 1861, to 
serve during the war. Served first in Gregg's Brigade, after- 
wards McGowan's; in A. P. Hill's and Wilcox's Divisions; Jack- 
son's and x\. P. Hill's Corps. 

Raised and organized by Whit. Walker, who was the first 
captain. Killed, 31; died, 24; total loss by death, 55. 



Roll of Company "F," Twentieth Regiment, S. C. V. 

Joha M. Kinard, Captain, age 31; killed at Strasburg, 
October 13, 1804. Wm. M. Kinard, promoted to captain; 
died since war. Hillary J. Sligh, 2nd Lieutenant; resigned 
1862. Edward R. Kingsmore, 2nd Lieutenant; died since 
the war. Will S. Cannon, wounded at Fort Samter, pro- 
moted from sergeant to 3d Lieutenant; died since the war. 
S. W. Reid, wounded at Petersburg; promoted from 2nd 
Sergeant to 1st. Baylis W. Buzhardt, 3d Sergeant: died 
since the war. Jasper N. Epting, 4th Sergeant; discharged. 
F. D. Graham, 5th Sergeant. W. O. Goree, 1st Corporal; 
wounded at Deep Bottom; promoted to 5th Sergeant. C. M. 
Richie, 2d Corporal. Jesse C. Dickert, 3d Corporal; dis- 
charged at Sullivan's Island. Frank D. Rikard, 4th CorporaL 

Privates — Zeb P. Abrams, wounded at Bentonville and dis- 
charged. Simeon S. Abrams, wounded at Cedar Creek. Dan- 
iels Abrams, discharged at Cold Harbor. Mike Baker; I sup- 
pose he came out all right. B. Barrett, discharged at Sulli- 
v^an's Island. Henry J. Brooks, killed at Petersburg. Jim 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 413 

Boozer. Manning R. Brown, wounded at Petersburg. Spen- 
cer P. Baird, discharged at Richmond. O. Hope Buzhardt. 
Jeff Buzhardt, died of disease at Sullivan's Island, 18G2. Wal- 
ter F. Buzhardt, died in some Union prison. Wash. Bowles. 
Henry Boozer, died of disease at home in 1802. William Buz- 
hardt, died of yellow fever in Charleston, 1864. Sam. C. Barre., 
Joe P. Bedenbaugh. F. N. Cady. C. Wash. Calmes. Edd. 
Campbell. George Cannon, killed at Strasburg. Dave N. 
Chapman. John C. Counts, wounded and discharged at Cedar 
Creek. Adam Counts, wounded at Cedar Creek. John R. 
Counts. Jacob L. Cromer. A. B. Collins, killed at Peters- 
burg. Henry Chapman, kiUed at Strasburg. Enoch Cromer. 
R. Press Cromer. John Crooks, discharged at Sullivan's Isl- 
and. John F. Denson. George Denson. William T. Dickert, 
discharged at Richmond. Sam. H. Dunwoody, murdered smce 
the war while acting as guard at the Newberry depot. John 
D. Davis, wounded at Cold Harbor. S. F. Dominick. John 
Duckett, killed at Cedar Creek. Warren Dickert, died of dis- 
ease in hospital. William T. Epps. Micajah Epps. William 
A. Eddy. Ham. H. Folk, discharged at Mount Pleasant. 
Wood H. Farrow, discharged at Mount Pleasant. William H. 
Glenn, killed at Petersburg. John D. Glenn. J. Belton 
Glymph, wounded at Petersburg. R. P. Greer. Wm. Glenn, 
wounded at Strasburg (from Laurens County). I. N. Gary, 
discharged at Richmond. David Glenn, from Laurens County. 
Jeff Gauntt, died of disease at Petersburg. Henry O. Henson. 
G. Andrew Hough. John I. Houseal. D. Julius Hentz, woimded 
at Battery Wagener. George Hawkins, wounded at Battery 
Wagener. Sullivan Herbert, discharged at Sullivan's Island. 
J. E. Jones. Lewis James. Adam Kibler. J. M. Kissick. 
Walter F. Koon. D. W. T. Kibler, discharged at Sullivan's 
Island. Minor Kiuard, killed at Petersburg. John E. Lane, 
wounded at Petersburg. James C. Livingston, died of disease 
at Sullivan's Island. Robert J. Livingston, died of disease at 
Sullivan's Island. Ham Livingston. James Lindsay, died of 
disease at Richmond. Martin Cline. Archie McGill. H. Spence 
McCullough. William McCullough. J. Frank Miller. Joe T. 
Miller, died of wounds at Cold Harbor. David J. Muller. 
William Montgomery. Joe P. Moody, from Charleston. Jacob 
Nates. John E. Norris. Andrew Nichols. Andrew Rikard- 



414 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

J. Wesley Rhodes. Thomas J. Rook. Arthur J. Ropp, killed 
at Fort Siimter. A. J. Rembly. Sam. J. Rook. James W. 
Rook. William Reeder. James M. Sanders. Wade H. Setz- 
ler. John P. Sloan. J. M. Stone. Henry Stone. David F. 
Suljer. John C. Stewart. Monroe Sligh, died of disease at 
Charleston. Spencer F. Stewart, killed at Strasburg. Mid. 
Spence, wounded at Strasburg; discharged at Richmond. Edd 
Thomas. John Thrift. W. Dickens Watts, killed at Strasburg. 
J. David Wedeman. Silas Wedeman. J. Frank Wheeler. 
Robt. H. Williams. W. P. Wilcox, died of disease at Rich- 
mond. Lang. Wicker. Drayton Wicker. David R. Wicker, 
discharged at Richmond. Thomas V. Wicker. Belton Wicker. 
Pleas. W. Willingham. James S. Wilson, killed at Strasburg. 
John C. Wilson. M. John Wright, wounded at Bentonville; 
discharged at Richmond. Custer Wilson, wounded at Benton- 
ville. Gilliam Wilson, died of disease at Charleston. 

Whole number of men, officers included, 182. Killed, 12. 
Died of disease, 11. Died of wounds, 1. Total, 24. Whole 
number of wounds received besides the killed and mortally 
wounded, 17. 

Some few were from Laurens County — very few. So I let 
their names stand. As their services during the war were ren- 
dered in a company from Newberry, it is but right and proper 
that they should be counted Newberry soldiers. I follow this 
rule in all cases w^here the number of men from this county 
is largely in the majority. 



Roll of Company "D," Thirteenth Regiment, S. C. V. 

Isaac F. Hunt, Captain, age 82; promoted to Colonel of regi- 
ment in 1S63. Philander W. Cromer, age 26; Captain; pro- 
moted from 3d Lieutenant, 1803; killed at Gettysburg. James 
Y. McFall, age 26; Captain; promoted to 2d Lieutenant 1862; 
to Captain July 2, 1863; wounded at Ox Hall, Va. ; Spottsyl- 
vania, Va. ; served to close of war. Emanuel S. Copi:»ock, age 
31; 1st Lieutenant; resigned. Thomas F. Hunter, age 28; 1st 
Lieutenant; elected in 1863; killed at Chancellorsville. Henry 
L. Fuller, age 27; 2nd Lieutenant; elected in 1803; killed at 
Chancellorsville. William J. Lake, age 28; 1st Lieutenant; re- 
signed. Andrew M. Bowers, age 30; 1st Lieutenant; wounded 



ANNALS or NEWBEKRY. 415 

at Gettysburg; promoted from the ranks to 1st Lieutenant 
July 1, 1863. John H. RufP, age 26; 1st Lieutenant; elected 
at Bunker Hill, Va. Joseph \V. Hill, age 23; wounded at 
Deep Bottom; elected from corporal to 2Qd Lieutenant at Bun- 
ker Hill; served through war — as did John H. Ruff and A. M. 
Bowers. William D. Goggans, age 23; killed at 2nd Manassas; 
appointed Adjutant in 1862, from 1st Sergeant. Pettis W. Gil- 
liam, age 30; 1st Sergeant; discharged. James E. Campbell, 
age 18; 1st Sergeant; died at Richmond of wounds received at 
Cherokee Ford, Va. Jefferson A. Sligh, age 25; 2ud Sergeant; 
discharged. John W. Caldwell, age 22; 4th Sergeant; killed at 
2nd Manassas. Lemuel H. M. Boozer, age 24; 1st Sergeant; 
discharged. Robert H. Land, age 25; Commissary Sergeant; 
served through war. Thomas M. Chapman, age 35; 5th Ser- 
geant; served through war ; also through Mexican war. John 
R. Wicker, age 22 ; 1st Corporal; wounded at Deep Bottom; 
served through war. J. Marion Boyd, age 25; 2nd Corporal ; 
discharged. J. Glenn Rikard, age 23 ; 3d Corporal ; Appomat- 
tox.* Andrew J. McCoUum, age 24 ; 4th Corporal ; killed at 
Chancellorsville. Travis P. Boyd, age 23; 3d Corporal; wounded 
at Wilderness; Appomattox. 

Privates — Newton F. Butler, age 22, Appomattox. David P. 
Buzhardt, age 21, wounded at Chancellorsville; Appomattox. 
S. Dugan Boyd, age 18, Appomattox. James A. Boyd, age 25, 
wounded at Fredericksburg; killed at Gettysburg. W^illiam A. 
Barre, age 23, wounded at Ox Hill; Appomattox. John J. Barre, 
age 18, Appomattox. Samuel P. Boozer, age 29, discharged. 
James Boozer, age 18, Appomattox. A. W. Bramlett, age 26. 
G. Henry Cromer, age 24, killed at Spottsylvania. J. Preston 
Cromer, age 19, killed at Spottsylvania. Andrew Conwell, age 
18, Appomattox. C. Calvin Clamp, age 22, killed at 2nd Ma- 
nassas. Spencer J. Caldwell, age 18, killed at Petersburg. 
W^illiam Clamp, age 26. Henry Coates, age 18, died of disease 
at Richmond. Drayton N. Coates, age 21, Appomattox. Ed- > 
ward H. Christian, age 35, x\ppomattox. Moses M. Coppock, 
age 35, wounded at Spottsylvania; Appomattox. John C. Dun- 
can, age 21, died of disease at Ashland, Va. W^ilson W. Dav- 
enport, age 35, Appomattox. Warren P. EUisor, age 21, ki'.led 

* By "Appomattox" in this Roll the rjalar will uuJerstanl the place of 
final surrender of Lee's Army. 



416 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

at Gettysburg. W. Frank Enlow, age 25, killed at Chancel- 
lorsville. Edward B. Ferguson, age 28, discharged. Thomas 
F. Greneker, age 35, discharged. John W. Glasgow, age 20, 
died of disease at Lebanon, Va. William J. Hunter, age 25, killed 
at Spottsylvania. Elijah Hipp, age 30, died of disease on South 
Carolina coast. Asbury Hipp, age 23, died of disease on the 
South Carolina coast. John Half acre, age 21, killed at Manas- 
sas. Fred Half acre, age 18, died of disease on South Carolina 
coast. John W. P. Harmon, age 24, killed at Manassas. Wil- 
liam H. D. Harmon, age 18, killed at Manassas. Walter W. 
Houseal, ago 44, discharged. James A. Henry, age 37, Appo- 
mattox. William Higgins, age 30, from New York City; Ap- 
pomattox. Henry M. Johnson, age 22, died of disease at Eich- 
mond. Jesse M. Johnson, age 25. Marcus J. Jenkins, age 32, 
Appomattox. D. Walter Kinard, age 23, wounded at Peters- 
burg. John B. Kinard, age 27, wounded at Gettysburg. Wal- 
ter J. Kinard, age 23, killed at Gettysburg. John P. Kinard, 
age 22, wounded at Gettysburg; Appomattox. Walter J. Kelly, 
age 21, killed at Chancellorsville. Jasper Kelly, age 21, killed 
at Chancellorsville. John B. Lake, age 22, killed at Spottsyl 
vania. John W. Livingston, age 19, died of disease at Rich- 
mond. George Larsen, age 35, discharged. William R. Lane, 
age 21, killed at the Wilderness. Robert Y. H. McCracken, 
age 25, killed at Gettysburg. John McMorris, age 22, died of 
disease at Ashland. John McCarley, age 32, Appomattox. 
Frank S. Murgott, age 19. Benjamin P. Neel, age 28, wounded 
at the Wilderness ; Appomattox. Robert H. Norman, age 23, 
discharged. William H Pitts, age 22, killed at Cold Harbor. 
James Pitts, age 21, wounded at Gettysburg. George L. Pitts, 
age 27, Appomattox. Charles G. Plunkett, age 23, Appomat- 
tox. Drayton S. Plunkett, age 21, died of disease at Rich- 
mond. Drayton S. Paysinger, age 19, died of disease at Rich- 
mond. John P. Rikard, age 21, killed at Manassas. John J. 
Ruff, age 22, killed at Cold Harbor. David A. RufP, age 22, 
Appomattox. Walter M. Rikard, age 29, killed at Fredericks- 
burg. Andrew C. Rikard, age 23, killed at Manassas. Mar- 
cus S. Shell, age 32, Appomattox. James P. Senn, age 16, 
died of disease at Fort Delaware. David B. Sligh, age — , 
died of disease on the South Carolina coast. Robert D. Suber, 
age 19, killed at Cold Harbor. George M. Senn, age 22, 



ANKALS OF NEWBEKRY. 417 

wounded at Spottsylvania; Appomattox. John D. Senn, age 24, 
wounded at the "Wilderness ; Appomattox. Ketchum M. Senn, 
age 19, killed at Petersburg. John P. Sims, age 25, died of 
disease at Richmond. Thomas F. Senn, age 22, Appomattox. 
Jesse Sparks, age 32, died of disease at Fredericksburg. John 
D. Suber, age 28, wounded at Petersburg; Ajjpomattox. David 
Sims, age 23, died of disease at Richmond. Jesse Spear.s, age 
19, killed at Cold Harbor. Frank M. Setzler, age 23, Appo- 
mattox. Spencer F. Smith, age 35, discharged. George D. 
Smith, ago 38, discharged. Bluford M. Summer, age 23, died 
of disease at Fort Delaware. John S. Toland, age 38. "Wil- 
liams Welch, age 20, Appomattox. Spencer Ci. Welch, age 24, 
Appomattox. Daniel M. E. Wicker, age 25, died of wounds 
received at Manassas. James B. Wilson, age 18, killed at Ox 
Hill. William H. B. Werts, age 19, killed at Chancellorsville. 
Hiram Wicker, age 35, Appomattox. Thomas J. Wh'tman, age 
19, killed at Chancellorsville. D. Jeff Wicker, age 40, Appo- 
mattox. Zebulon B. White, age 35, Appomattox. 

W^hole number, rank and file, enlisted, 117 ; and unless I 
have made an error in summing up, the total loss of Company 
D, Thirteenth Regiment, during the war was 49 : Killed in 
battle, 34. Mortally wounded, 2. Died of disease, 13. Total 
49. Wounds received not mortal, 13. 



Roll of Company "M," Mounted Rifles, Twentieth Regi- 
ment, S. C. V. 

The following names of men from Newberry 1 find on the 
roll of Company M, Mounted Rifles, commanded by Captain 
E. S. Keitt, 20th Regiment, S. C. V.: 

F. D. Graham, Sergeant; volunteered December 24, 18C1. 
C. M. Richie, Corporal, December 24, 1861. J. E. Dickert, 
Corporal, December 24, 1861. 

Privates— A. C. Black, September 7, 1861. A. M. Berley, 
September 15, 1863. J. C. S. Brown, October 25, 1863. A. F. 
Cromer, February 4, 1863. J. N. Epting, December 24, 1861. 
S. G. Gallman, September 7, 1863. J. A. Hipp, January 2, 
1863. P. Halfacre, September 7, 1863. W. H. Knight, De- 
cember 1, 1862. A. Kibler, March 25, 1862. J. O. Koon, Octo- 
2 F 



418 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

ber 25, 1863. T. M. Neel, March 6, 18G3. J. W. Stone, 
March 20, 1862. J. A. Summer, September 7, 1863. J. N. 
Thompson, September 7, 1863. J. A. Welch, February 10, 
1863. M. D. Werts, February 10, 1863. M. A. Kenwick. 
Rogers Renwick. Curtis Attwood. Total, 23 men. 

This list is taken from the muster and pay roll of the 
company (the original) from the 31st day of October, 1863, 
to the 31.st day of December, 1863, and I find no record or 
report of wounds or casualties happening to the men. 



KoLL OF Company "G," Holcombe Legion, S. C V. 

Joel B. Heller, Captain — resigned; living. J. E. Brennan, 
Captain — promoted from 1st Lieutenant; dead. B. B. McCreery, 
Captain, i-esigned — promoted from 3d Lieutenant; living in 
New York. John Williams, Captain — from private elected 3d 
Lieutenant and promoted to Captain; died since the war. 
William Hatton, First Lieutenant — from 1st Sergeant elected 
to 1st Lieutenant; killed at Second Manassas. Nathan Hipp, 
1st Lieutenant — from private elected 1st Lieutenant — dis- 
charged from Union prison at surrender; living. John 
Chaplin, 2nd Lieutenant — elected at the organization of the 
company; died at home. Wm. Suber, M. D., 2nd Lieutenant 
— elected from corporal: dead. J. J. Reeder, 2nd Lieutenant 
— elected from private — wounded at Petersburg; died in Union 
prison unknown. James Wilson, 1st Sergeant — promoted from 
private; killed at Petei-sburg. Wesley • Koon, 1st Sergeant — 
promoted from private — discharged at Point Lookout; living. 
Frank Lominick, Ist Sergeant — promoted from private; killed 
at Second Manassas. John M. Glymph, 2nd Sergeant — pro- 
moted from private; discharged at Point Lookout.* Drayton 
Pitts, 3J Sergeant, killed at Petersburg. Henry Hendrix, 
4th Sergeant, mortally wounded at Second Manassas. W. W. 
Waldrop, 4th Sergeant, discharged at Point Lookout; living. 
J. M. Suber, 1st Corporal, mortally wounded at Second Ma- 
nassas. Drayton Suber, 1st Coi'poral, lost near Gordonville. 
C. S. Cleland, 2nd Corporal, discharged at Point Lookout; 

* Point Lookout was a Union prison. 



ANXALS OF NEWBEEKY. 419 

living. M. W. Longshore, 2nd Corporal, discharged at Point 
Lookout; living. W. Pinckney Johnson, 3d Corporal, wounded 
at Petersburg; discharged at Point Lookovit; living. Pinckney 
Hendrix, 4th Corporal, mortally wounded at Petersburg. 
Madison McClung, oth Corporal, wounded at Suponey Church; 
discharged at Point Lookout. 

Privates — Hampton Abrams, dead. James Abrams, wounded 
at Suponey Church; discharged at Point Lookout. Jas. Ash- 
ford, Fairfield, wounded at Second Manassas; discharged at 
Point Lookout. Richard Anderson, Abbeville, discharged at 
Point Lookout. Thomas H. Alewine. Thomas H. Adams, 
wounded at Rappahannock, Kinston, Suponey Church and 
Petersburg; discharged from prison in New York. Melvin 
Adams, discharged at Point Lookout. David Blair, killed at 
Goldsboro. George Beam, Fairfield, transferred to 17th S. C. 
Regiment. John Boozer, discharged at Point Lookout. John 
Barksdale, Laurens, discharged at Point Lookout. Martin 
Butler. J. H. P. Cromer, wounded at Second Manassas; dis- 
abled and discharged. James C. Clary, discharged at Point 
Lookout. Samuel Cohen, wounded at Suponey Church; dis- 
charged at Point Lookout; living in New Jersey. George S. 
Cannon, discharged at Point Lookout. Franklin H. Cromer, 
died at Adams Run, June 30, 1SC2. Stephen Cromer, killed 
at Second Manassas. Ivy Cromer, discharged from prison in 
New York. Robert Cromer, discharged at Point Lookout; 
dead. Franklin Cromer, discharged at Point Lookout. Wil- 
liam Chapman, killed at Petersburg. George Cromer, dis- 
charged at Point Lookout; dead. Whitfield Cromer, killed at 
Petersburg. Frederick J. Cromer, discharged at Point Look- 
out; dead. Drayton S. Chandler; living in Greenville County. 
Marion Dickert, discharged disabled. E. P. Davis, discharged 
disabled. John Davenport, discharged at Point Lookout. 
Jacob AV. Felker, wounded at Suponey Church; discharged at 
Point Lookout. Adam F. Felker, discharged at Petersburg. 
Thomas Felkman, discharged at Point Lookout. D. B. Glymph, 
Abbeville. John Gibson, Abbeville, discharged at Point Look- 
out. Jefferson Gregory, "Union, discharged over age. Newt. 
F. Gilliam, killed at Kinston. A. Y. \V. Glymph, discharged 
on detached service. J. H. Hayes, discharged at Point Look- 
out; dead. Elijah Hipp, mortally wounded at Second Manas- 



420 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

sas. George Harvey, wounded at Second Manassas; disabled 
and discharged. Wm. Hoyle, Fairfield, died of disease in 
service. Thomas D. Hogg, killed at Second Manassas. John 
X. Hendrix, killed at Second Manassas. John H. Harmon, 
discharged at Point Lookout. Simeon Johnson, wounded at 
Petersburg and discharged from hospital. Wm. P. Jackson, 
Union. Wm. Kersey. Ivy Ropp, died of disease, not known 
where. M. W. Longshore, killed at Petersburg. Levi F. 
Longshore, discharged at Petersburg. Madison Longshore, 
discharged at Point Lookout. Young Longshore, discharged 
at Point Lookout. Jacob Lietzsey, died in prison at Point 
Lookout. John Reeder, discharged at Point Lookout. Hil- 
liary Mangum, discharged at Point Lookout. James Morris, 
died of disease at home. Robert McClung, died, place and 
time unknown. J. J. McAfee, Kentucky, transferred to Ken- 
tucky Cavalry. Abner Reeder, wounded at Suponey Church. 
John Oxner, discharged at Point Lookout; dead. Uriah Oxner, 
wounded at Suponey Church; discharged at home. Isaac 
Roebuck, died at home on furlough. John Pitts, dischai'ged 
at Point Lookout. Jonathan Pitts, discharged at Point 
Lookout. Joe Pitts, discharged at Point Lookout. William 
Rutherford, discharged at Point Lookout. E. W. Reese, dis- 
charged at Petei-sburg. John Thomas Suber, discharged dis- 
abled. David F. Suber, discharged at Point Lookout. Edward 
Stokes. Thomas Stokes, dead. Jacob Smith, discharged over 
age. Richard S. Satterwhite, discharged at Point Lookout. 
Simpson Sligh, discharged at Point Lookout. James Singley, 
killed at Petersburg. William Senn, wounded at Petersburg. 
James Turner, Union, died of disease at Adam's Run. Press 
Thompson, died of disease in hospital at Richmond. Arnold Thom- 
asson, lost near Gordonsville, Va. Samuel Wicker, wounded 
at Second Manassas and Kinston; discharged at Point Look- 
out. B. F. Williams, Greenville, killed in battle, time and 
place not known. Walker Willingham, wounded at Second 
Manassas; discharged at Point Lookout. 

Total rank and file, 105 men. Of that number, were killed 
in battle, 13; mortally wounded, 2; died of sickness, 8; total 
loss by death, 23. The reader will also perceive that several 
were rendered lantit for service by being severely wounded 
and were in consequence discharged. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 421 

Roll of Company "H," Third Regiment, S. C. V. 

I give only the names of the men from Newberry, as the 
comppiiy was made up mainly froru Lexington, with four from 
Edgefield. The company was first commanded by Drury Nun- 
namaker, who resigned at the reorganization, Ajoril 13, 1862. 
He died since the war. John P. Summer was elected Captaic. 
Killed at Fredericksburg. George S. Sw/gert succeeded Sum- 
mer. Was wounded at Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg and 
Chickam.auga, disabled, and resigned. D. A. Dickert then 
became Captain. He had been wounded at Savage Station, 
Fredericksburg and the Wilderness, and was wounded at Knox- 
ville after his promotion. The two first named were from 
Lexington. Wistar C. Swindler, Newberry, over age; discharged. 
Simeon Wheeler, Newberry, Color- Sergeant; wounded at Knox- 
ville; leg amputated; discharged. Levi C. Kempson, Newberry, 
5th Sergeant; killed at the Wilderness. Wesley W. Werts, 4th 
Corporal, died of disease at Chai'lottesville, Va. 

Privates from Newberry — Melvin Adams, over age, discharged; 
re-enlisted in Company G, Holcombe Legion, on the roll of 
which his name appears. Lemuel L. Boozer, wounded — . Frank 
B. Boozer, v.ounded at Strasburg. Daniel T. Boozer, discharged 
for disability. Littleton Bedenbaugh, wounded at Greensboro, 
N. C. Samuel J. Cook, killed at Chickamanga. J. G. Dawkins, 
transferred to Company H, Thirteenth S. C. V. Henry M. Dom- 
inick, wounded — . Belton Enlow, killed at Sharpsburg. Eli 
Frost, killed at Savage Station. John N. Feagle. Silas Hart- 
man, killed at Fredericksburg. George Hiller, wounded; trans- 
ferred to Company E, Third S. C. V. Jacob J. Kinard, wounded 
at Chickamauga; leg amputated. George W. Koon, transferred 
to Company E, Third S. C. V., and afterwards killed. D. S. 
Long, died in Union prison at Point Lookout. D. P. Long. 
G. Adam Long, died since war. Enoch J. Lake, transferred 
to Company E, Third S. C. V. Thomas M. Lake, transferred 
to Company E, Third S. C. V., died since war. Jacob Livingston^ 
Sol Livingston, wounded — . George Lester, wounded at Mary- 
land Heights; leg amputated. A. 1^. Miller, wounded at Sharps- 
burg. John W. Monts, wounded at Maryland Heights. Lee Ri- 
kard, killed at Sharpsburg. Robert E. Riser, deserted. Wade H. 
Setzler, transferred. Lewis Spillers, killed at Chickamauga. An- 



422 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 



drew Suber, died of disease iu hospital. Tress Thompson, 
transferred to Company G, Holcombe Legion. Andrew Werts, 
wounded — . Luther B. Wheeler, killed at Maryland Heights. 
Whole number, rank and file, 36. Of whom were killed, 8. 
Died of disease, 3. W^ounded and not killed, 8. Total casual- 
ties, 19. 

I take pleasure in giving here a brief sketch of the history 
of this company from the time of enlistment in the Confederate 
service, at Lightwood Knot Springs, June 2, 1861. The com- 
pany enlisted for twelve months, with 73 men, and was then 
assigned, by lot, its position, "H," left color company. The 
whole enlistment was then furloughed until the 17th. On the 
25th, Company H embarked for Virginia, and took position on 
the outer post at Fairfax C. H. About the 15th of May, 1862, 
the first year's service having expired, the company re-enlisted 
for the war. The company at this time numbered 82 men, but 
was recruited from time to time until, at the close of the war, 
the roll showed 147 names. Of this number 21 were killed, 
24 died in service, 5 had legs amputated (all living), 1 had 
arm amputated, 3 deserted, 2 missing (supposed dead), 33 were 
wounded and still living, 8 have since died, 8 were discharged, 
3 oflicers resigned, 2 oflficers were killed, lU privates were 
transferred to other companies. 

The first member of the company killed was L. F. Russell, 
at Savage Station, June 29, 1862. Fletch was a merry boy, 
and the pet of the company. He was killed instantly. We 
wrapped him in his blanket and buried him on the battle field 
"Let me kiss him for his mother." The last man killed was 
B. F. Chapman, at the Wilderness, May 5, 1864. \\\ W. Hipp 
was the first man who died in the compan}^ at Bull Run, July, 
1861. 

Of the original enlistment of 73 men only two returned home, 
after going through the whole war, without wounds or scars 
from the missiles of death. William Monts had five sons in the 
company. One was killed, three died in service, and one (J. 
W.) was desperately wounded. 

One of those who returned home without a wound or scar 
was H. H. Chapman, who was always with his company and 
in every battle from the begmning to the end of the war. 

The foregoing facts are gathered from the statement written 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 423 

by U. B. Whites, dated Newberry, S. C, July 15, 1884. Mr. 
Whites was from Lexington at the beginning of the war, and 
Lieutenant of this company, but has long been a citizen of 
Newberry County. 

It appears that the losses of this company were very unus- 
ually heavy. One out of every 7 of the whole number of 147 
was killed outright in battle, and something over 1 out of every 
7 died in service ; thus making the total loss very nearly 1 out 
of every 3. The deaths in Company B, First Regiment, known 
as the Rhctt Guards, were very nearly in the same proportion, 
but the loss was not quite as great as in this company. 



Roll of Company "C,"' Third Regiment, S. C. Y. 

R. Clayton Maffett, Captain, promoted to Lieutenant-Col- 
onel; captured and died in Fort Delaware. Chesley W. Her- 
bert, Captain — })romoted from 1st Lieutenant — wounded at 
Gettysburg and the W'^ilclerness; killed after the war. Daniel 
S. Maffett, 1st Lieutenant — promoted from 2nd Lieutenant — 
killed in battle at Knoxville. John C. Wilson, 1st Lieutenant 
— promoted from 1st Sergeant — wounded at Savage Station. 
Joseph Culbreath, 2nd Lieutenant, promoted from the ranks. 
J. L. Speake, Laurens, Ikl Lieutenant, resigned. Spencer J. 
Piester, 8d Lieutenant, killed at Fredericksburg, December 13, 
1862. Amos A. Kibler, 1st Sergeant, promoted from 2nd 
Sergeant. Thomas J. Maffett, 2nd Sergeant, promoted from 
4th Sergeant. E. Piuckney Cromer, 3d Sergeant, promoted 
from rraik-. Thomas R. Wilson, 4th Sergeant, wounded at 
Savage Station, Chickamauga and North Anna; dead. G. 
Frederick Long, 3d Sergeant — promoted from 1st Corporal — 
wounded at Knoxville. John B. Fellers, 5th Sergeant, pro- 
moted fro-n 3d Corporal M. H. Young, 1st Corporal, pro- 
moted from ranks. David Y7. Boozer, 2nd Corporal, died of 
disease at Fairfax C. H., 1801. John S. Bowers, 4th Cor- 
poral, transferred. Jacob B. Fulmer, 2nd Corporal — promoted 
from the ranks— wounded at Gettysburg; dead. George Sites, 
4th Corporal, promoted from the ranks. James W. Kelly, 5th 
Corporal, killed at Savage Station. Samuel S. Paysinger, 5th 
Corporal — promoted from the ranks — wounded at Wilderness. 

Privates — William H. Adams, transferred to Cavalry, 1862. 
Joseph AllbrittoD, killed at W'ilderness May 6, 1864. James 



424 ANNAxs or newbeery. 

C. Banks, transferred. Henry Baird. Henry Baughn, Lexing- 
ton, detailed as scout; dead. Fletcher Bouknigbt, transferred. 
Thomas S. Blair, wounded at Wilderness. James P. Blair. 
Samuel D. Boland, transferred. James M. Boland, transferred. 
Cornelius P. Boozer, wounded at Knoxville — lost an arm; is 
now Rev. C. P. Boozer, member of Legislature from Edgefield 
Coiinty. D. Siuieon Boozer, transferred to Cavalry, 1802. I. 
Herbert Boulware, lost an arm at Wilderness. George M. 
Boyd, discharged in 1802. Henry D. Cannon. John T, 
Calmes. Washington Calmes, dead. Joseph D. Carmichael, 
discharged in 1802. Walter P. Counts, transferred to Cavalry 
in 1802, dead. A. Barron Cromer, v/ounded at Chickamauga, 
H. S. Newton Crosson, wounded at Chancellorsvilie. David 
A. Crosson, wounded at Wilderness, dead. Jacob Crouch, 
dead. Wade W. Crouch, Edgefield. William Davenport, killed 
at Chickamauga September 20, 1SG3. James M. Daven- 
port, died of disease in hospital. John Davis, transferred and 
afterwards killed at Chancellorsvilie. J. W^. Duncan, transferred, 

D. W. S. Dominick, transferred. John A. Elmore, transferred, 
dead. Nathan Enlow, transferred, dead. Gideon Ferguson, 
transferred. J. Pressley Fellers, killed at Chickamauga. S. 
Hamilton Fellers, lost an arm at Wilderness. Henry S. Folk, 
died in hospital of wounds. Eli Frost, killed at Chickamauga. 
D. Frederick Gallman, color bearer, killed (suppo.^ed) at Sharps- 
burg, September 17, 1802. Henry G. Gallman, killed at Sharps- 
burg. Jefferson J. Gallman, lost an arm at Savage Station. 
James M. George, killed in Georgia. Nelson B. George. Lewis 
O. G. George. George W. Griffith, killed at Gettysburg. J. 
Henry Grnber. Levi Gruber. Thomis Grimes, transferred. 
Albert Guise, transferred, dead. James B. Hair, discharged. 
J. Melvin Hartman, wounded at Gettysburg and Wilderness. 
Pierce M. Hawkins. J. Miles Hawkins. E. Pre:=;sley Haw- 
kins, discharged. John E. Hendrix, wounded at Bean's Sta- 
tion; killed at North Anna. James W. Herbert, wounded at 
Wilderness. Carv.'ile Hussa. David N. Halfacre. Andrew 
Huff, transferred. J. Harrison Kelley, died of disease in 
hospital. Y. Simpson Kelly, killed at Fredericksburg Decem- 
ber 13, 1802. William J. Kelly, transferred. Levi Kinard, 
killed at Savage Station June, 1802. licvi Kibler. J. Mid- 
dleton Kibler, dead. J. Hamilton Kiblei-, wounded at Chick- 



ANNALS OF NE-\TBERRY. 



425 



amauga. K. Calvia Kibler. George G. Lane. Walter E. 
Lane, discharged. Allen Lester, discharged. Alfred Lester, 
died of disease in hospital. Charles Lester, discharged. 
Michael J. Long, died of disease in hospital. Andrew J. 
LoDg. Latimer W. Long, wounded at Wilderness, dead. 
J. Marshall Livingstone, killed at Knoxville. Peter T. Mc- 
Graw. Benjamin F. McGraw, dead. Langdon C. McCracken, 
dead. John McCracken, killed at Cold Harbor. John Mc- 
Nealus, deserted at Gettysburg.. R. J. Mansell, transferred. 
R. Drayton Maffett, killed at Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. 
Allen Martin, killed at Wilderness May 6, 1SG4. Francis Moon, 
wounded at Wilderness. Stanmore Morris, wounded at Gettys- 
burg, dead. J. C. Nates, transferred. J. Belton Neil. J. Calvin 
Neil. J. Spencer Neil, killed at Chickamauga. John G. Nel- 
son. Henry M. Paysinger, killed at Gettysburg. Thomas M. 
Paysinger, wounded at Gettysburg and Cold Harbor; promoted 
to Captain of Scouts; dead. W. P. Pugh. Hawkins Pugh. 
Joseph E. Quattlebaum, transferred. D. Belton Quattlebaum, 
transferred. Andrew J. Rankin, transferred. George W. 
Rankin, transferred. J. Saunders Rawl, killed at Wilderness. 
Jamess B. Reagin, transferred to Cavalry in l8o2. Henry 
W. Reagin, killed at Bentonville. John W. Reagin. Newton 
Reid, dead. S. Pressley Reid, died of disease in hospital. 
David Richardson, transferred. J. W. Rikard, transferred. 
J. A. Rikard, transferred. L. C. Rikard, transferred. Noah 
A. Sease, wounded at Gettysburg. G. Luke Sease. John R. 
Sheppard, transferred. Jesse E. Sigman, scout, supposed to 
have been killed by a prisoner. Samuel Spence, supposed to 
have been killed by a prisoner. John D. Spence, lost a leg 
at Cedar Creek, October 19, ISOl J. Wesley Sligh, wounded 
at Wilderness. David P. Sligh, wounded at Malvern Hill, 
July, 18G2, and died in hospital at Richmond. Thomas 
J. Stillwell, wounded at Wilderness. J. Quincey A. Stockman, 
J. Matt. Stribling, discharged. John C. Stockman, kiPed at 
Malvern Hill. Whitfield Stuart, transferred. Charles T. 
Stuart, wounded at Wilderness. Robert J. Sulton, died of 
disease in hospital. T. JefPerson Thompson, killed at Wilder- 
ness. Joseph D. Whites, killed at Wilderness. G. J. Whites, 
discharged. Michael Werts, discharged. Andrev/ J. Werts, 
Edgefield, dead. John A. Werts, dead. J. William Wilson, 



426 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

transferred; killov^l in battle at Strasburg. Hayne Williamson. 

Whole number of men belonging to the company from the 
beginning to the end of the war, rank and file, 150; killed in 
battle, 25; scouts killed by prisoners, 2; died of wounds in 
hospital, 2; died of disease in hospital, 7; died in Fort Dela- 
ware, (Colonel Maffett, prisoner,) 1; total number of deaths, 
37; wounds received not mortal, 31. 

It would appear from this summing up that this company 
enjoyed good physical health — wounds healed readily and the 
number of deaths from disease not larwe. . 



Company "G," Second Regiment Cavalry, S. C. V. 

I give of this company the names only of those officers and 
men who went from Newberry County. 

Thomas J. Lipscomb, Captain, discharged at Chester, S. C; 
Colonel of the regiment at the close of the war. J. Wistar 
Gary, Captain, discharged at Chester. John N. Floyd, 1st 
Corporal, discharged at Chester. 

Privates — Edward P. Boazman, discharged at Chester. Grant 
S. Boazman, wounded at Gettysburg; discharged at Chester. 
Wash. M. Boazman, discharged from Union prison. William 
W. Boazman, discharged from Union prison. Simeon D. Boo- 
zer, discharged from Union prison. Elijah A. Broots, dis- 
charged from Union prison. Kay Burton, discharged from 
Union prison. M. P. Cline, died in Union prison. W. F. Counts, 
discharged from Union prison. Thomas J. Davenport, dis- 
charged from Union prison. Harrison Davenport, discharged 
from XTnion prison. James H. Davenport, discharged from 
Union prison. William M. Feltman, discharged at Chester. 
Dorsey L. Gary, discharged at Chester. W. H. flancock, 
discharged at Chester. Pat. H. Hargrove, discharged at Ches- 
ter. Benson M. Jone.j, discharge:! at Chester. Dennis Lark, 
discharged at Chester. W. W. Miller, discharged at Chester. 
A. Newton Pitts, discharged at Chester. John D. Pitts, dis- 
charged at Chester. James B. Reagin, discharged at Chester. 
John S. RuflP, discharged at Chester. G. Benjamin Subor, dis- 
charged at Chester. William W. Wallace, discharged at Chester. 
James M. W^orkman, discharged at Chester. 

Total officers, 3; privates, 2(3; total, 29. One was wounded at 
Gettysburg; 10 were captured, 1 of whom died in j^rison; 9 
were discharged from prison at close of war. 



annals of newbeeey. 427 

/ Company "H," Holcombe Legion. 

Only the names of officers and men from Newberry County 
are given. 

James M. Maffett, Captain, died of disease at Lockhart, Miss., 
in 18G4. He had just been elected sheriff, and was on his 
way home to assume the duties of the office. Jacob Warner, 
killed near Petersburg; promoted from 1st Lieutenant to Cap- 
tain. Henry S. Boozer, discharged at Johnson's Island ; pro- 
moted from 2nd to 1st Lieutenant and to Captain. John S. 
Hair, 1st Lieutenant, resigned in 18G2. Bennett J. Kinard, 
2nd Lieutenant, killed at 2nd Manassas. Langdon C. Kibler, 
promoted to 3d Lieutenant, resigned in 1863. George C. Maf- 
fett, 1st Lieutenant, wounded at Kinston, N. C; promoted to 
3d, 2nd and 1st Lieutenant. Joseph D. Carmichael, Sergeant, 
wounded at Boonsboro, Md.; discharged at Point Lookout. 
W. Simpson Harmon, Sergeant, died in prison at Point Look- 
out. George M. Singley, Sergeant, killed at Hatcher's Run. 
Jacob A. Bowers, Sergeant, killed near Petersburg. J. Belton 
Werts, promoted Ordnance Sergeant, discharged at Appomat- 
tox. E. Pressley Hawkins, Corporal, wounded at Boonsboro ; 
discharged at Point Lookout. John L. Hunter, Corporal, 
wounded at 2nd Manassas; discharged at Point Lookout. J. 
Smiley Bowers, Corporal, wounded at Boonsboro and at Kings- 
ton; died at Point Lookout. John L. Derrick, Corporal, dis- 
charged at Point Lookout. 

Privates — Stanmore S. Boozer, died of disease, at home. R. 
Calvin Boozer, surrendered at Appomattox. Frederick A. 
Boozer, wounded at Second Manassas and Kinston; discharged 
at Point Lookout. Jacob W. Boozer, wounded at Kinston; 
died of disease, at home. Asbury Bedenbaugh. George 
A. Bedenbaugh, wounded at Jackson, Miss.; discharged at 
Point Lookout. William J. Bedenbaugh, wounded near Peters- 
burg; discharged at Point Lookout. Francis Bobb, wounded 
at Second Manassas; discharged at Point Lookout. Ham- 
ilton B. Buzhardt, discharged at Point Lookout. James M. 
Poland, discharged at Point Lookout. John Bowers, wounded 
at Hatcher's Run; fate unknown. James C. Banks, discharged 
at Point Lookout. Tranmore F. Black, discharged on South 
Carolina coast. J. Harrison Cannon, wounded near Petersburg. 



-428 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

H. Wesley Dominick, wounded at Jackson, Miss., and Saponey 
Church, Va.; discharged at Point Lookout. Aaron M. Domi- 
nick, discharged at Fortress Monroe. B. Lindsay Dominick, 
discharged at Point Lookout. George A. Dominick, wounded 
at Kappahanock; died at Culpeper. Henry F. Dominick, died 
of disease at Stoney Creek, Va. Orlando A. Dickert, discharged 
on South Carolina coast. John A. Enlow, discharged at Point 
Lookout. Charles Force, wounded near Petersburg. S. Chris- 
tian Gruber, wounded at Saponey Church. George P. Griffith, 
transferred to Company G, Thirteenth Eegiment. Henry Grif- 
iith, died of disease, at home. E. Lambert Hendrix, wounded 
at Hatcher's Run; discharged at Point Lookout. Eobert T. C. 
Hunter, wounded at Saponey Church and Second Manassas. 
Samuel A. Hunter, discharged at Point Lookout. Dray- 
ton P. Hawkins, discharged at Point Lookout. Thomas T. C. 
Hunter, discharged at Point Lookout. J. Martin Hartman, 
wounded at Kinston, died at Goldsboro, N. C. James M. King, 
died of disease on South Carolina coast. William H. Long, dis- 
charged on South Carolina coast. William K. Lindsay, dis- 
charged at Wilmington, N. C; over aga M. Luther Kinard, 
wounded at 2nd Manassas; transferred to Thirteenth Eegiment. 
James C. Moore, discharged at Point Lookout. Robert S. 
Moore, discharged in camp. Frederick E. Moore, killed at 2nd 
Manassas. George H. Morris, discharged at Point Lookout. 
Thomas B. Morris, discharged at Point Lookout. Chauncey 
H. Morris, wounded at Sharpsburg; died at Point Lookout. 
George Mayer, discharged at Appomattox. Hance C. Moseley, 
dischaiged at Wilmington; under age. Florida Moats, wounded 
at Sharpsburg, discharged at Wilmington; under age. John 
Matthews, discharged at Appomattox. J. Lamar Maffett, died 
at Point Lookout. Nicholas S. Merchant, discharged at Point 
Lookout. Jacob Perkins, discharged at Appomattox. Lewis 
A. Perkins, wounded near Petersburg; discharged at Appomat- 
tox. Elihu Perkins, wounded at Saponey Church; died of dis- 
ease at Petersburg. J. Belton Qaattlebaum, died of disease, 
at home. Samuel L. Eook, wounded at 2nd Manassas; dis- 
charged at Wilmington; over age. Wiley Eikard, died of dis- 
ease at Richmond. George W. Rikard, wounded at 2nd Ma- 
nassas- Levi Rikard, discharged at Appomattox. George W. 
Eankin, died of disease at Point Lookout. H. Middleton Sing- 



ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 429' 

ley, discharged at Point Lookout. Franklin Shealy, trans- 
ferred to Thirteenth Regiment. Samuel C. Sheppard, dis- 
charged at Point Lookout. John N. Sligh, wounded at Sharps- 
burg; killed at Fort Steadman, Va. J. Belton C. Stockman, died 
of disease at Wilmington. Bluford Waits, discharged at Point 
Lookout. Drayton Waits, wounded at Kinston; died at Point 
Lookout. Samuel Waits, discharged in camp. D. Hilliard 
Werts. H. Middleton Werts, died in prison at Point Look- 
out. Henry Werts, discharged at Appomattox. James Wood, 
discharged at Appomattox. John A. Wise, wounded at 2nd 
Manassas; died at Warrenton, Va. John C. Wise, killed near 
Petersburg. 

Total rank and file from Newberry. 80. If I have made no 
error in summing up, I find: Killed in battle, officers and men, 
; died of wounds (some in prison), 7 ; died of disease (some 
in prison), 11. Total, 24. Wounds not mortal, 21. Captured 
and discharged from Union prisons at the close of the war, 18. 



Company "C," Holcombe Legion. 

This company was mustered into service December 3, 1861. 
Names only of those from Newberry County are given, except 
that of the second captain. 

John E. Spearman, Captain, resigned and was su-cceeded by 
J. Wash. Williams, Laurens. Levi Slawson, 1st Lieutenant. 
Silas Walker, 1st Lieutenant, from 2nd. Ebenezer P. Chal- 
mers, 2nd Lieutenant, wounded at Cold Harbor. Chesley D 
Spearman, 3d Lieutenant, discharged at Adam's Run with 
measles. James L. Blackburn, 3d Lieutenant. James W.. 
Spearman, 1st Sergeant, Richard W. Hill, Orderly Sergeant. 
Wilson W. Waldrop, 2nd Sergeant. Robert R. Hill, 2nd 
Sergeant. G. Calvin Ridlehuber, 3d Sergeant. Daniel Dandy 
killed at Ridgeley's Shoals, Va. William L. Chalmers, 4th, 
Sergeant. John F. Watkins, 4th Sergeant. Graves W. L. 
Spearman, 4th Sergeant. Calvin Satterwhite, 5th Sergeant. 
Jas. R. Payne, died of disease at Adam's Run, S. C, May 6, 1862. 
Henry D. Boozer, 1st Corporal. Frank G. Spearman, 2nd 
Corporal, discharged to Arsenal (Citadel) Academy. John A.. 



430 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Workman, 2 rid Corporal. Lewis G. Ferguson, 3d Corporal. 
Samuel W. Spearman, 3d Corporal. Charles C. Teague, 4th 
Corporal. William G. Glenn, 4th Corporal. 

Privates — Thomas H. Adams. Aaron D. Burton, wounded 
at Cold Harbor. John P. Buzhardt. Henry D. Boozer. John 
C. Chalmers, died of disease in Virginia. William Y. Cradock. 
Wm. L. Davis. Jno. M. Davenport, died of disease ia Virginia. 
James A. Davis, wounded at Cold Harbor. Thomas J. Denson, 
discharged, over age. Kichard J. Dean. James J. Denson. 
Napoleon B. Davenport. Thomas Floyd. David Garrett, died 
of measles at Adam's Run, March 9, 1862. William G. Glenn, 
wounded at Cold Harbor. Elijah M. Lake, wounded by shell 
at Adam's Run, February 8, 1862; died. Samuel W. Spearman. 
James K. P. Spearman, died of measles at Adam's Run. 
John F. Spearman, died of disease at home February 10, 
1862. Jacob Smith. John M. Pennington. Henry Willen, 
died of disease in Virginia. Seth Williams. William R. 
Spearman, discharged to Arsenal Academy. Harry P. Wad- 
lington. John C. Whitman. R. G. Gilliam. William Boozer. 
W. A. Clark. R. C. Davis. J. C. Davis. R. Julius Dean. 
Thomas Hatton. G. W. Johnson. Miller Johnson. Abe 
Johnson. Wash. Johnson. Warren H. Jones. George P. 
Lake, died of measles at Adam's Run. William Dean. G. 
Pope Mauguni. John W. Miller. Wash Monroe, wounded 
at Drill Gi-ound, Va. Drayton Pitts. John W. Satterwhite. 
Thomas P. Slider. E. P. Stillwell. J. Davis Taylor, wounded 
at Darbytovvn, Va. 

I find the following remarks written upon this roll: 'V^ol- 
unteered for 12 months for local defence, but resigned when 
the company was mustered in for the war after the conscript 
law was passed; and J. Wash Williams was elected captain 
of the company. Good many of the members of the com- 
pany were over the conscript age, but were not released till 
they were carried to Virginia, and, notwithstanding they had 
volunteered for local defence, they were carried against their 
wishes. The matter was reported to the War Department and 
they were ordered' discharged. John R. Spearman." 

Of the 72 from Newberry, died of disease, 8; killed in 
battle, 1; wounded, not mortally, 7; discharged over age and 
disabled, 4. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 431 

Company "H," Thirteenth Kegimknt, S. C. V. 

Only the names of officers and men from Newberry County 
are given. 

Philip A. Eichelberger, Captain. ^Villiam L. Leitzsey, age 
20, 8d Captain, wounded at Gettysburg, Manassas and Spott- 
sylvania, killed at Deep Bottom, Va. George A. Hiatchison, 
age 2'2, 2nd and 1st Lieutenant, promoted from Orderly Ser- 
geant, discharged at Orange C. H., Va. David Leitzsey, age 
24, 2nd Lieutenant, promoted from the ranks in Virginia in 
18(58, killed at Gettysburg. John W. Chaj)man, age 24, 1st 
Sergeant, died of disease on South Carolina coast. David J. 
"Wedeman, age 20, died of disease on South Carolina coast. 
William F. Eidlehuber, age 21, 4th Corporal, promoted from 
the ranks, killed at Gettysburg. 

Privates — Jacob J. Busby, age 10, killed at Deep Bottom. 
John W. Cromer, age IS, died of disease at Camp Johnson. 
John P. Dickert, age J(S, died of disease at Camp Johnson. 
A. Osman Eargle, age 22, killed at Manassas. Jacob Epting, 
age 45. J. Felix Hutchison, age 22. Augustus Kibler, age 
20, transferred from Co. G, 18th S. C. Regiment, in Virginia 
March, 1808, and furnished a substitute; William Koon, age 
28, wounded at Chancellorsville. D. Luther Koon, age 18, 
v/ounded at Gettysburg. Miles S. Singley, age 22, missing at 
Gettysburg; supposed to have been killed. E. Harrison Wede- 
man, age 21, died of disease at Richmond. John A. Elmore, 
age 80, captured near James River, 1S04. 

Total from Newberry, officers and men, 18. Of these there 
were killed in battle, 0; (Captain Leitzsey had been wounded 
three times before he was killed,) died of disease, 4; total 
number of deaths, 10; wounds not mortal, 2; discharged, 1. 

I find on the monument below the Court House the names 
of four hundred and sixty-eight men (408) who perished 
during the war, killed in battle, mortally wounded and died 
of disease. The rolls furnished me, from which I have care- 
fully copied, give the names of only three hundred and 
eighty-three (388) short by ei:jhty-five names (85.) But the 
rolls I have give about fifty nanes (50) of the deal which I 
do not find on the monument. However, I may have m'lle 
some errors, though I have tried to be very careful. I < ive 
here the names on the monument which I did not fin 1 in 



432 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 



the rolls: J. J. Hatton, T. W. Henderson, W. C. Hunter, 
W. Huskey, T. A. Johnson, J. L. Johnson, John Johnson, J. 
J. Johnson, M. Johnson, H. Jones, W. H. Kelley, L. C. Ki- 
nard, W/W. Koon, A. H. Koon, D. A. Koon, W. Lake, W. F. 
Lake, W. J. Lake, J. D. Lake, E. M. Lake, \Y. A. Lake, 
S. Langford, Wm. Lee, G. Livingston, M. Livingston, H. 
Long, J. H. McCullough, — . McCain, D. B. McClung, W. P. 
McClung, H. A. Milligan, J. D. Norris, W. W. Monts, F. 
Monts, T. D. Nance, J. C. Nates, R. L. Neel, W. F. Nobles, 
R. M. Norman, E. O'Dell, D. Oxner, J. A. S. Oxner, B. F. 
Paysinger, J. Peas, E. Perkins, E. A. Pitts, W. Reid, J. J. 
Reeder, Jr., A. AY. Reeder, Jr., B. Richards, W. L. Ridlehu- 
ber, L. F. Rupsell, G. W. Rankin, J. L. Schumpert, G. Senn, 
J. Sharp, F. Sheely, J. M. Sheely, AY. H. Sheely, E. Sheely, 
S. M. Sheely, Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. Simkins, David Sims, 
Davis Sims, Albert Smith, C. Snelgrove, J. Sparks, R. S. Sj)eers, 
W. F. Spruel, R. Snlton, J. J. Summers, J. Thomas, — . Trib- 
ble, C. C. Turner, D. Waldrop, A. S. Werts, T. S. Whitmire, 
J. B. Whitmire, F. Wilson, H. Wilson, T. B. Wilson, D. M. E. 
Wicker, J. Glenn, F. J. Glymph, C. H. Morris, J. Long, Cap- 
tain W. P. Cromer, T. H. Lyles, J. M. Kinard, D. S. Maffett, 
J. S. Piester, J. S. Chapline, W. M. Hatton, C. M. Singley, 
J. A. Bowers, J. F. Clark, A. H. Young, L. Sheely, J. C. Gary, 
J. D. Sheely, T. A. Maffett, R. Moore, R. A. Abrams, D. Adams, 
L. Anderson, F. D. Ballentine, H. C. Bernhardt, T. Berry, J. 
C. Bishop, N. Boozer, J. Boozer, E. P. Boozer, H. Boozer, R. 
L. Bradley, W. G. Butler, A. B. Cannon, J. P. Cannon, B. F. 
Chapman, H. Z. Chapman, D. B. Chambers, D. C. Chambers, 
J. C. Chapline, N. A. Clark, C. C. Clamp, D. Cleland, E. Cox, 
A. S. Conwell, H. Coate, S. Grout, J. W. Canaady, J. S. Den- 
nis, J. Dennis, J. W. Dorroh, W. P. Dorroh, W. B. D'Oyley, 
J. Duckett, H. M. Epting, G. Feagle, C. C. Felder, J. Fellers, 
H. S. Folk, C. H. Gasaway, J. Galogly, M. Gibeon, — . Gil- 
lespie, D. M. Gordon, W. S. Golding, S. P. Hawkins, H. C. 
Hartman, H. T. Harmon, J. 11. Hardy, F. D. Hatton. Total, 
152, who died during the war and whose names do not appear 
on the rolls of the lists of killed and wounded. But the rolls 
call for about fifty dead whose names do not appear on the 
monument. 

I regret these discrepancies. I wanted no name to peri.sh 




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ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 433 

unrecorded, and in this matter I have done my beet. If any 
names appear more than once, better so than not at all. 

I find that Newberry County had in regular service during 
the war about fourteen hundred and fifty (1450) men, and 
that very nearly one-third of them died in service — killed, 
mortally wounded and of disease. 

Add to the above the ninety-five in the following roll, and 
you will have fifteen hundred and forty (1540) names, and I 
do not think this is quite all. 



Roll of Company "A." 

It is my good fortune to find at last a roll of Co. A, being 
that of a company of boys or young men about eighteen, 
who went into service as volunteers in the early part of the 
year, about April, 1864, and continued until the close of the 
war, April, 1865. Eighteen of these, whose names I have- 
marked with the letter t, were transferred to Col. E. S. 
Keitt's mounted men and served under him. I had given up 
all hope of being able to find these names, but happily I 
have before me the original roll. No casualties given. 

W. H, Holman, Captain. Thomas "W. Thompson, 1st Lieu- 
tenant. H. C. Moseley, 2nd Lieutenant. Legare Gary, 3d 
Lieutenant. C. M. Williams, 1st Sergeant. A. M. Wyse, 2nd 
Sergeant, t. D. M. Ward, 3d Sergeant. Geo. Haltiwanger, 4th 
Sergeant. Adolphus Maffett, 5th Sergeant. J. A. Werts, 3d 
Corporal. J. G. Martin, 2nd Corporal. N. B. Wheeler, 3d 
Corporal, t. Fred Cureton, 4th Corporal, t. 

Privates— J. H. Aull, t; C. B. Abrams, J. Albritton, J. W. 
Boozer; T. P. Boozer, t; C. Butler, Y. M. Bedenbaugh, F. S. 
Bedenbaugh, B. C. H. Bedenbaugh, O. M. Buzhardt, P. S. 
Brooks; C. Bookman, t; H. P. Coats, R. J. Campbell, J. L. 
Connelly, C. F. Chandler; J. W. Cromer, t; S. D. Caughman,, 
t; Henry Colter, John A. Counts, A. C. Chapman, J. Cald- 
well, H. H. Chambers, T. W. Davis, C. H. Derrick, J. L_ 
Dominick, Henry Dominick, Drayton D. Dansby, Samuel 
Duckett, C. P. Dickert, M. Dickert, David DeWalt, M. Epting, 
H. H. Epting, P. M. Ellisor, G. M. Ellisor; J. W. Fulmer, t; 
M. A. Fellers, J. H. Fellers, H. T Fellers, J. N. Feagle, C. 
Felder, W. C. Gallman, E. C. Harrington, Tom Hair; T. M. 
2 G 



434 



ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 



Hentz, t; J. J. Hipp, t; Y. J. Hutchison; W. J. P. Kinard, t; 
J. D. Lake, M. C. Lake, J. D. Lietzsey, R. Y. Leuvell, J. D. 
Mooro; J. A. Mitcliell, t; T. McCullough, G. F. Monts, W. N. 
Miller; J. F. Oxner, t; W. P. Pugh, E. H. Pugh, W. D. 
Riser, W. F. Suber, J. B. Suber, J. P. Spearman, James 
Schumpert; W. W. Summer, t; J. M. Stevens, Robert Stewart, 
W. B. Spearman; F. M. Trotter, t; S. S. Taylor, J. R. Vaughan; 
J. W. Watson, t; E. P. Whitman, t; J. L. Williams, W. S. 
Wilson, G. P. Werts; J. L. Werts, t; J. W. Werts, J. W. 
Whicker, A. C. Welch. Total, 95 officers and privates. Seven 
died of yellow fever on South Carolina coast, two of whom 
were J. H. Fellers and Adolphus Maffett. 



Battalion or State Cadets. 

The following were members of the Battalion of State 
Cadets commanded by Major White: 

Jas. S. Spearmap, Jno. R. Spearman, George Johnstone, 
Thomas T. Moore, Fi'ank G. Spearman, Thomas A. Johnson, 
John F. Spearman, Wm. R. Spearman. 

Of these Wm. R. Spearman died not long after the war; 
Thomas A. Johnson died in the Confederate service on the 
23d of March, 1865, a little over 19 years of age, having 
been born on the 5th of February, 1846. The others, I think, 
are still livinsr. 



Company ''K," Fifth Regiment, S. C. Cavalry. 

The following from Nev/berry were members of Co. K, 5th 
Regiment, S. C. Cavalry: 

M. M. Buford; F. S. Boozer, killed at Tresillian; D. B. 
Boozer, dead; Wm. Boozer, dead; Robert Goree, gone West; 
J. C. Hargrove; Dr. Wm. Suber. dead. 

M. M. Bnford, as escort for Col. Rawlins Lowndes, of 
Charleston, S. C, was with the officer who carried the last 
dispatches from the Confederate authorities when General 
Joseph E. Johnston surrendered. 



Doubtless there are errors in the foregoing lists of names of 
men who saw service in the Confederate Army during the War 
of Socesaion. Doubtless there are errors in the statement of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 435- 

casualties, and in other respects. There are probably some 
names not given which should have been inserted. There are 
some on the monument not found on the rolls in the Adju- 
tant-General's office, and some not on the monument which 
should be there. The compiler of this record has faithfully 
copied from the rolls which were furnished him. He would 
have entered upon a career of endless inquiry had he under- 
taken to interview each living soldier and officer of the Con- 
federacy from Newberry. In many cases he did inquire and 
receive information from private sources which it was impos- 
sible to obtain from the public records. 

The reader who has any spark of charity in his composition 
ought to be, and must be, pleased to find that the errors in 
the lists are so few. Nothing can please one who has no 
charity for others. 

The compiler must here be permitted to thank Mr. Elbert 
H. Aull, who, as the book is passing through the press, has 
put himself to a great deal of trouble and inconvenience to 
eliminate from the rolls and the statement of casualties all 
errors possible to be eliminated. 



Addendum by E. H. Aull. 

In addition to the rolls and records already given, more 
information has been obtained as to the part Newberry had in 
the War of Secession. As has been stated by the compiler, 
every precaution has been taken to be accurate in this part of 
these Annals. As those who can give information from personal 
experience and knowledge are fast passing away, and the rolls 
are sometimes unsatisfactory, it has been difficult to obtain 
accurate data. If this history is not preserved now, it will 
soon be so that the facts cannot be obtained. It is the purpose 
of this book to be accurate and fall, though it is realized that 
that purpose will not be attained completely in either partic- 
ular. With that in view, however, I have deciflod, with the 
permission and assent of the compiler, to make the following 
addition to this part of the book. 

A careful examination of the rolls printed will show that the 
compiler is not entirely correct in his statement of discrepan- 
cies between the names on the rolls and those on the Confed- 



436 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

erate monument ; but as it was not observed until portions had 
gone through the press, and as it was the purpose to err rather 
on the side of repetition than omission, it was thought best 
not to undertake to change that. 

A good number of Newberry men were in companies not 
from Newberry, and it is difficult to locate all of them, but in 
talking of the matter and asking questions, as the book was 
going through the press, the facts given herewith have been 
learned. 

From Captain W. D. Hardy the following names and data 
of men who were from Newberry as members of the Fifth 
S. C Infantry, J. T. Douglass, Captain, were obtained: 

J. H. Hardy, T. W. Henderson, James A. Oxner, Thomas 
Wilson, Jenkins H. Smith, Walker Glymph, J. McD. Kinard, 
D. B. Kinard, George Kinard, Calvin Kinard, S. J. Long, B. 
H. Maybin, Emanuel Sligh, David Gross. Of these the follow- 
ing were either killed or died of wounds or disease during the 
war: J. H. Hardy, T. W. Henderson, James A. Oxner, Thomas 
Wilson, Calvin Kinard. The following have died since the 
war: D. B. Kinard, George Kinard, S. J. Long, B. H. Maybin, 
Emanuel Sligh, D. Gross. 

The company and regiment of Thomas Roebuck not known; 
killed or died during the war. 

In the Fifth S. C. Cavalry was Berry Richards; killed in 
battle about the close of the war. 

In Captain Frost's cavalry company were W. B. Oxner, Dr- 
James A. Cofield and John A. Henderson — all from Newberry. 

In DePass' artillery company were J. L. Lyles, J. D. Sharp, 
Preston Sharp and James Nance. 

The name of Mr. W. D. Hardy does not appear on the rolls 
printed, as he was in a Spartanburg company. He entered 
the service on April 13, 1861, in the Fifth S. C. Infantry. At 
the reorganization, in April, 1862, he was appointed Sergeant- 
Major. After the battles around Richmond in the summer of 
1862 he was appointed Adjutant of the Fifth Regiment, in 
which capacity he served until General Lee surrendered at Ap- 
pomattox C. H. 

In the early part of 1861 Col. J. C. S. Brown organized 
a company composed altogether of Newberry men, and he 
was elected Captain. After having his company thoroughly 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 4B7 

drilled he was ordered to Columbia, whei-e they went into 
camj-). It was one of the smaller companies, and in the 
formation of the regiment there were two companies more 
than were needed, and it, with a Laurens company, had to 
be left out. Captain Brown transferred his men to other 
companies and resigned. After remaining at home for some 
time, Captain Brown joined Captain Keitt's company as a 
private and served through the war. 

r. John N. Bass, who is now a citizen of Newberry, was a mem- 
ber of Company A, State Guards, a Lanrens company, and 
lost a leg at Deep Bottom. 

I. A. Blanton, now a Newberry man, enlisted March, 1SG2 
in Barnwell in Company D, Third S. C. Cavalry, and served 
through the war. 

Joseph Brown was a member of Company F, Tenth Regi- 
ment, S. C. V. He lived in Horry County, but enlisted m a 
Marion company in 1801. He was captured at Missionary 
Ridge, November, 1808; confined in Rock Island prison; was 
taken sick and released just before the close of the war. 

Charles B. Buist, for thirty years a citizen of Newberry, should 
also have a place among the Confederate veterans from this 
county. He lost a leg at the battle of Secessionville, and came 
to Newberry soon after, where he resided until his death, March 
25, 1892. 

M. A. Carlisle entered in a company of South Carolina 
College Cadets in April, 1801; afterwards, in 1802, enlisted 
in Company E, Palmetto Battalion, Light Artillery, E. B. 
White, Colonel, and served as ordinance officer of the bat- 
talion, which was stationed at and around Charleston. 

Dr. R. C. Carlisle entered the Confederate army just 
after his graduation in medicine in 1801, as assistant sur- 
geon in the Seventh Regiment, and was promoted to Surgeon 
and served through the wai\ He entered the service from 
Union County, but has long been a citizen of Newberry. 

\Yilliam A. Fallaw wa? a member of Boykin Rangers and 
afterwards in the Second S. C. Cavalry. He enlisted from 
Lexington County in 1801, served through the war and has 
been a resident of Newberry since its close. 

William J. Lake, after resigning from Company D, Thirteenth 
Regiment, S. C. V., joined Company C, 23d S. C. V., and was 



438 



ANNALS OF NEWEEKEY. 



afterwards elected Lieutenant in Company B, 22nd S. C. V., 
where he served until he was wounded at Petersburg, July, 
1864, disabled and retired. 

Isaac K. Lake, a Newberry man, was a member of a Lex- 
ing company and afterwards joined Company C, Twenty-third 
Regiment, S. C. V., and was killed at Petersburg, July, 18G4. 

James N. Lipscomb went to Virginia with the first com- 
mand from South Carolina, on the staff of Gen. M. L. 
Bonhani, as Lieutenant-Colonel. When the Second S. C. 
Cavalry was formed he was appointed Quartermaster of the 
regiment by Col. M. C. Batler, with the rank of Captain. 
Upon Colonel Butler's promotion to Brigadier-General he 
made Captain Lipscomb his Adjutant-General with the rank 
of Captain, and he served with General Butler after he 
was made Major-General. 

N. B. Mazyck was Captain of Company E, Twenty-fifth 
Regiment, S. C. V., Colonel C. H. Simonton, commaudei*. He 
served through the war and came [to Newbeny from Charles- 
ton in 1809. 

Dr. James Mcintosh, now a citizen of Newberry, joined Com- 
pany F, Eighth Regiment, S. C. V., upon its going into ser- 
vice, and was soon made Assistant-Surgeon in the S. C. State 
Troops. He resigned this position upon the Eighth Regiment 
being ordered to Virginia, rejoined his old company, and served 
in the field until November, 1801, when he was appointed As- 
sistant-Surgeon, C. S. A., and ordered to the hospital at Char- 
lottesville, Va., where he remained in the service to the close 
of the war. 

Andrew J. McCaughrin was in the Calhoun Guards, Hagood's 
command, when he first went into the service, at the battle 
of Secessionville. He was afterwards in the Quartermasters' 
department. He was living in Charleston when the war broke 
out. 

R. Simpson Moore, of Newberry, was a member of Company 
A, Tenth Georgia Battalion, Captain Frederick, and died of 
disease in the South Carolina Hospital at Petersburg, Va., May 
10, 1803. 

G. S. Noland, now a citizen of Newberry, enlisted in Com- 
pany B, (from Union County), Eighteenth Regiment, S. C. V. 
He was wounded at Petersburg, July 30, 1804, and served 
through the war. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKET. 430 

Augustus P. Pifer was living ia Newberry when the war 
broke out, but when Virginia, his native State, seceded he 
returned homo and entered the service in ]861. He was a 
member of General Lee's personal staff and the Captain of 
Lee's body guard, known as Lee's Scouts, Guards and 
Couriers. He was wounded in the foot and slightly in the 
head by a shell at Gettysburg. He remained v/ith General 
Lee until his final surrender. After the war he returned 
to Newberry, where ho has since resided. 

Joseph S. Keid, who was a citizen of Mississippi when the 
war broke out, a native of Newberry, and now a citizen, organ- 
ized the first company that went from Winston County, Miss., 
and was elected Captain. It was Company G, Twentieth Reg- 
iment. He was afterwards Major, and also Lieutenant-Colonel. 

George A. Riser was a member of Captain King's company, 
Rhett's Regiment of Regulars, and was killed at Bentonville, 
N. C. 

Dr. Peter Robertson, now a citizen of Newberry, was a mem- 
ber of Hart's Battery, Hampton's Cavalry Division, enlisting in 
1864. He served until the surrender of Johnston's army. 

E. A. Scott, a native of Ireland, and a citizen of Newberry 
for twenty-five years, was living in Alabama when the war 
began. He enlisted in the Second Regiment, Alabama Vol- 
unteers and afterwards served in the Forty-Second Regiment, 
Alabama Volunteers, which formed a portion of tbo army 
under General Braere:- 

J. C. Simkins was Captain of Company B, First Regi- 
ment; promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel, and afterwards killed 
at Battery ^Vagener. 

Alexander Singleton was a member of Company G, Tenth 
Regiment, S. C. V., and was discharged on account of ill health. 

John F. Speck, now a citizen of Newberry, enlisted in 1861 
for six months in Company K, First North Carolina Regi- 
ment. He then returned to his home at Lincolnton, organ- 
ized Company E, Fifty-second Regiment, N. C. V., was elected 
Captain of the company, and served until he lost a leg at 
Fredericksburg, December, 1862, when he retired. 

Thomas F. Tarrant, now a citizen of Newberry, was a 
member of Company A, Thirteenth Regiment. 

In Company D, Holcombe Legion, Troop C, Seventh Cav- 



440 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

airy, I. G. McKissick, Captain, were the following from 
INewberry: H. C. Kenner, 2nd Lieutenant, promoted from 
ranks. Privates — James L. Atchison, Joab Dean, James Her- 
ron, John Odell, T. J. Eison. 

Morgan Gordon, Wesley Canady and Nathan R. Mars, 
from the Mollohon section, were in Captain ' Jones' company, 
Laurens, afterwards Capt. J. S. Johnson's company. Gordon 
was killed at Maryland Heights. Canady was killed at 
Gettysburg, Pa. Mars was wounded at Chickamauga, Feb- 
ruary 20, 1S63. W. H. Husky, killed — not known where. 
Eobert Abrams, died at Charlottesville, Va. Mitchel Suber. 
David Graham. John Oxner. Hib Cannon. 



Company "C," Ninth Regiment, State Troops. 

There seems to be no roll in the archives in Columbia 
of Company C, Ninth Regiment of State Troops. From 
other sources I have obtained the names given herewith of 
those who were members from Newberry. They entered the 
service in the fall of 18(32 and were stationed on the South 
Carolina coast for State defense: Jas. H. Williams, Colonel. 
Benj. Mathis, Captain. Reuben Davidson, 1st Lieutenant. 
Joseph Duckett, 2nd Lieutenant. G. B. Boozer, 8d Lieu- 
tenant. Privates — A. G. Maybin, John Satterwhite, Milton 
Spence, Levi Williams, Archie Sloan, James Adams, L. J. Jones, 
Melvin Adams, Pettus Gilliam, John Lyles, John C. Boozer, T. 
N. Boozer, Thomas Murtishaw, Hardy Suber, A. W. T. Sim- 
mons, W. Y. Fair. In the fall of 180)^ Thomas Crooks was 
Captain and Thomas Alewine 1st Ser.:^oant, and the following 
were added to the company: T. B. Chalmers, J. H. Gordon, 
David Murphy, Geo. A. Sligh, Jesse Senn, Johnson Pitts, Ed. 
Campbell, Mitchell Suber, Alf. Reeder. 

These names are given from memory and may not be en- 
tirely correct nor fall, but it was thought best to record 
them here. 



Roll of Company "H," Fourth Regiment of State Troops. 

This company was called out towards the close of the 
war, in 1864 or 1865. J. W. Ferguson, of Laurens, Colonel 
commanding; John R. Spearman, Lieutenant-Colonel. All 



AXNALS OF NEWBERRY. 441 

hope had been given up of getting these names, as the 
roll had long been lost, and there is no record of them in 
the archives of the State in Columbia. It was the purpose 
of the compiler from the beginning of this work to give 
the name of every one who saw service in any capacity in 
the War of Secession, and it will be a source of life-long 
regret to know that any one has been left out. This roll is 
prepared from the memory of those who could now be seen. 
It was composed of boys from fourteen to seventeen and 
those who were over sixty. They spent most of their time 
on the coast: Koscius F. Atwood, Captain. Pettus W. Gil- 
liam, 1st Lieutenant. William Boyd, 2nd Lieutenant; pro- 
moted to Captain. G. B. Boozer, 3d Lieutenant. J. M. 
Johnstone, 3d Lieutenant. E. C. Jones, 1st Sergeant. 
Privates — ^B. F. Goggans, Clarky Houston, J. Singleton 
Ring, Fred Hendrix, John McCollum, James L. Henderson, 
Thomas B. Aughtry, R. B. Holman, Jr., John W. Smith, 
Calvin Caldwell, John C. Sligh, — Bobo, Richard Sondley, 
Gilliam Fulmer, William I. Harp, W. H. W^allace, (Laurens, 
but now a citizen of Newberry) G. W. Oxner, David DeWalt, 
James Glenn. 

Men under John F. Sim 5, Captain: Wm. E. Gibson, 
Jonathan G. Martin (now in Texas), Andrew Willingham. 



Company "I," Fifteenth Regiment, S. C. V. 

From the roll of Company I, Fifteenth Regiment, S. C. V. , 
J. A. Derrick, Captain, procured for me by Mr. J. N. Feagle 
from Mr. W. C. Sheely, I find the following names of New- 
berrians: Walter W. Monts, 3d Lieutenant, wounded at Get- 
tysburg, July 2, 1803, and died July 10, from amputation of 
leg. G. Mike Monts. William C. Sheely. George M. Sheely, 
wounded at Boonsboro, Md. J. Wilson Long. George Feagle, 
died in prison at Point Lookout, August 13, 1864. Walter W. 
Koon, wounded at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, and died from 
wounds same month. A. Hamilton Koon,* wounded at Deep 
Bottom, Va., July 27, 1864, and died at home, August 18, 
1864. Melvin Sheely died at home of disease. The other 
names on this roll were of men from Lexington. 

* The name is now spelled Kohn. His son, Arthur H. Kohn, is a mer- 
chant at Prosperity. 



442 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 

ScHULTz'ts Battery. 

The following belonge'l to Schultz's Battery, and spent most 
of tbe time on the South Carolina coast. None of the mem- 
bers from Newberry were killed or died during the war: Cal- 
vin Meetze, Levi Moots, Levi W. Bowers, Jacob Sheely, Dray- 
ton L Sheelv, B. Frank Sheely, M. S. Boland, G. Mike Bowers 
J. K. Chapman, Noah L. Chapman, Junius E. Chapman, B. 
Frank Dawkins. James Sheppard, Hughey Turner, John C. Hill, 
Adam Long, John Hutchison, Adam George, J. Mid. Wheeler, 
George Hipp, William A. Hipp, Warren P. Cannon, Hayne 
Reid, Nathan Williamson, James A. Riser, Adam W. Mont*"' 
George Meetze, Dravton I. Lon^. 



Company "D," Third S. C. Battalion. 

The following Newberry m.en were in Company D, Third 
S. C. Battalion, (G. M. Gunnels, Captain — a Laurens com- 
pany): Hosea M. Barger, enlisted in 1801 and served through 
the war. John B. Chambers, enlisted at same time; wounded 
at Spottsylvania C. H. and served through the war. W. F. 
Kell}', wounded at Boonsboro, Md., September 14, 1802. 
John L. Speak e. George T. Speake. John Bishop. William 
Bishop, died of disease at home while on furlpugh. John 
Peas, wounded and captured and never heard of afterwards 
— supposed to have died. F. M. Harmon. Robert Speers. 
Silas Bishop, died of disease at Bunker's Hill in 1863. 
H. C. Jones, died of disease at Danville, Va., in 1803. 
W. P. Jones, color bearer, wounded at Frazier's Farm. 



Roll of Company "E," Seventh Cavalry, S. C. V. 

A roll of Company C, Holcombe Legion, is given at page 
420. This roll was made when the company first went into 
the war in 1801. After the reorganization, in fall of 1803, 
the name of the company was changed and was known as 
Company E, Seventh S. C. Cavalry, commanded by Col. 
A. C. Haskell. I give herewith the names of the company 
as they ajipear on the roll. Some of them were from other 
counties, but as they were near the line and some have 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 443 

become citizens of Newberry I let it go in in full. la 
May, 1804, Captain Williams retired and the comj)any was 
commanded by Lieutenant Walker, (as it had been some time 
before Capt. Williams' retirement) who was made Captain 
jnst before the close of the war: 

J. W^ash. Williams, Laurens, Captaiu, age 38; retired May 
1804. Silas Walker, 1st Lieutenant, age 34; wounded at Cold 
Harbor, June, 1804; in command of troops for some time. 
E. P. Chalmers, 2nd Lieutenant; wounded at Cold Harbor, 
June, 1804. J. L. Blackburn, 3d Lieutenant, age 24. R. Watts. 
Hill, Laurens, 1st Sergeant, age 24. R. R. Hill, Laurens, 2nd 
Sergeant, age 29; wounded at Savage Station in 1803. Daniel 
Dendy, 3d Sergeant, age 25; in prison in 1804; wounded at 
Riddle's Shop; captured. J. A. Workman, Laurens, 4th Ser- 
geant, age 25; wounded at Williamsburg. C. A. Satterwliite'^ 
5th Sergeant, age 24. John Watkins, 1st Corporal, age 20. 
H. D. Boozer, 2nd Corporal, age 24. W. G. Glenn, 3d Cor- 
l^oral, age 32; wounded at Cold Harbor. Samuel Leaman 
Laurens, 4th Corporal, age 34. 

Privates — J. H. Adams, age 25. W. H. Adams, age 22. 
Jno. W. Arnold, Laurens, age 32; killed at W'illiamsburg ia 
1803 on scouting duty. William Boozer, age 35. John Buz- 
hardt, age 30. J. F. Boyd, Laurens, age 33. W. D. Boyd, 
Laurens, age 19. W. H. Boyd, Laurens, age 18. H. W. 
Boyd, Laurens, age 20. ^V. W. Boyd, Laurens, age 40. 
A. D. Burton, age 19; wounded at Cold Harbor. W. B. Bell, 
Laurens, age 17. W^. P. Burkhalter, Edgefield, age 21;, 
died of disease at home in 1804. N. M. Burkhalter, Edge- 
field, age 19. W". H. Clark, Laurens, age 18, died of 
disease at home in 1803. A. J. Coleman, Edgefield, age 
30. A. P. Coleman, Edgefield, age 20; wounded at Deep' 
Bottom. W. H. Coleman, Laurens, age 19. W. Y. Craddock,. 
age 19. G. L. Crisp, Laurens, age 37. R. C. Davis, Lau- 
rens, age 21. J. C. Davis, Laurens, age 28. W. S. Davis,, 
age 33. J. A. Davis, age 21; wounded at Cold Harbor. J. M. 
Davenport, age 27; died of disease at Columbia in 1804 oil 
the way home. Samuel Davenport, age 21. L. E. Ferguson, 
Edgefield, age 20; wounded at Adam's Run, 1802. J. H. 
Finley, Laurens, age 20. H. G. Finley, Laurens, age 19. 
J. B. Floyd, age 30; wounded at Darby town in 1803. J. R.. 



444 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 



Fox, Edgefield, age 19; died of disease at home. Tillman 
Fuller, Laurens, age 40. S. B. Griffin, Laurens, age 21. 

B. F. Griffin, age '20. W. F. Golding, Edgefield, age 24; 
wounded at or near Barnville while scouting. W. S. Gol- 
ding, Edgefield, age 22. W. P. Garrett, Laurens, age 29; 
wounded at James' Gate while scouting. Jasper Gibbs, 
Union, age 40. J. C. Gregory, Unioo, age 30; died of 
disease at Appomattox in 1S65. B. A. Gregory, Laurens, 
age 38. N. B. Goodman, Laurens, age 26. H. D. Hunt- 
ington, age 35; wounded at Williamsburg in 1803 while 
scouting. Thomas Hill, Laurens, age 27; captured at Darby- 
town in October, 1803; died in ITaion prison. J. A. Hill 
Laurens, age 23. J. T. Hill, Laurens, age 22. S. L. Hill 
Laurens, age 28. F. G. Holloway, Edgefield, age 27 
Thos. J. Hatton, age 28. Daniel Jones, Laurens, age 40. W. H 
■Jones, age 24. Absalom Johnson, Laurens, age 55. A. M 
Johnson, Laurens, age 20. T. J. Little, Laurens, age 22 
S. W. Lowe, Laurens, age 19; captured at Petersburg. AVilliam 
Leaman, Laurens, age 30. Augustus Mason, Laurens, age 37. 
J. P. Mangum, age 18. G. H. Monroe, Laurens, age 20. D. A. 
Monroe, Laurens, age 25. W. M. Milam, Laurens, age 35; 
wounded at White Oak Swamp and captured; died in 
Union prison. William W. Milam, Laurens, age 30; wounded 
at Eiddle Shops. J. C. Miller, Laurens, age 30. John 
Miller, age 22. J. W. Nichols, Laurens, age IS. B. F. 
Payne, Edgefield, age 20. J. W. Payne, Edgefield, age 21. 
W. B. Pulley, Edgefield, age 22. D. S. Pitts, Laurens, age 45; 
captured August 27, 1803. D. Proctor, Edgefield, age 21; 
killed at Cold Harbor, June, 1804. John M. Proctor, 
Edgefield, age 23. G. C. Ridlehuber, age 28. Sumter Rodgers, 
Laurens, age 30. John Satterwhite, age 45. B. G. Smith, 
ley, W. C. Beck, J. C. Belcher, W. E. Black, E. P. Boazman, 
G. S. Boazman, William Boazman, W^. W. Boazman, J. M. Boaz- 
man, D. S. Boozer, S. M. Bowen, C. E. Bowen, R. F. Bradley, 
W. Brisbane, E. A. Brooks, T. J. Brough, J. A. Brownlee, M. 

C. Bullock, T. E. Burton, J. Butler, G. W. Calhoun, J. A. Cal- 
houn, William P. Cline, R. H. Cochrane, D. Cohen, W. T. 
Counts, J. C. Cowan, J. B. Cowan, W. C. Curry, H. Daven- 
port, T. J. Davenport, J. H. Davenport, M. L. Deal, J. A. Dev- 
lin, W. D. Devlin, N. O. Drennan, W. M. Feltman, J. M. Fin- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 445 

Edgefield, age 23. W. S. Sraith, Edgefield, age 28. G. S. 
Smith, Edgefield, age 21. K. F. Spearman, Laurens, age 
80; wounded at Cold Harbor. E. G. Stillwell, age 46. Fred 
Scurry, Edgefield, age 30. J. L. Schumpert, age 18; died of 
disease at Cofiin's Farm in 1804. Samuel Schumpert, age 18. 
J. D. M. Shaw, Laurens, age 19. J. D. Taylor, age 28. T. S. 
Teague, Laurens, age 30. M. P. Tribble, Laurens, age 22. 
A. K. Tribble, age 40; wounded at Farmville. J. W. Tribble, 
Lauren.s, ago 17. C. John Tribble, Laurens, age 20; killed at 
Tylersville on picket. R. G. Trunnal, Laurens, age 18. 
Charles C. Teague, discharged in May, 1861; over 45. John 
Wilson, age 28; died of disease at home on sick furlough. 
Seth Williams, age 30. R. G. Williams, age 24. C. J. Work^ 
man, Laurens, age 22. Aaron Wells, Laurens, age 40. "W. J. 
Wells, Laurens, ago 20. John Workman, Laurens. 

Rank and file, 107 men; from Newberry, 34; Laurens, 52; 
Edgefield, 8; Union, B. Killed, 3 — one in battle; one scouting; 
one on picket. Died of wounds, 2; of disease in prison, 6. To- 
tal deaths, 12. Wounds not mortal, 16. 

J. C. Tribble and C. W. Tribble were members of Com- 
C, Holcombe Legion. The former was killed at New Kent 
C. H. ia August, 1863. The latter died of disease in the 
Manchester hospital in January, 1863. 



Muster Roll of Company "G," Second Regiment, S. C. Cavalry. 

At the suggestion of Captain J. W. Gary, who has a com- 
plete roll of Company G, Second Regiment, S. C. Cavalry, frora 
October 31, 1864, to December 31, 1864, I insert it here, al- 
though the Newberry names already appear, and many of the 
company were from other counties: 

T. J. Lipscomb, Colonel and first Captain. J. W. Gary, 
Captain. J. F. Hodges, 1st Lieutenant. T. J. Hearst, 2nd 
Lieutenant. A. W. Teague, Brevet 2nd Lieutenant. W. A. 
McClintock, 1st Sergeant. J. E. Bradley, 2nd Sergeant. H. 
D. Bedon, 3d Sergeant. M. J. Young, 4th Sergeant. J. W. 
Cowan, 5th Sergeant. J. N. Floyd, 1st Corporal. R. M. Sea- 
wright, 2nd Corporal. J. L. Blackesly, 3d Corporal. W. A. 
Limbecker, 4th Corporal. 

Privates — J. A. Adams, S. Z. Ashley, J. H. Austin, B. H. Beas- 



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ANNALS OF NE\VBERKY. 



ley, T. G. Gaillard, D. L. Gary, Y. Griffin, J. T. Griffin, K. 
H. Haddon, W. H. Hancock, P. H. Hargrove, S. Holloway, A. 
G. Irby, B. M. Jones, J. M. Jordan, W. A. Kay, W. P. Kil- 
lingsworth, H. C. King, W. D. King, D. Lake, A. B. C. Lind- 
say, M. B. Lipscomb, T. J. Lipscomb, H. S. Long, G. W. Lor- 
ick, J. E. Lyon, M. L. Martin, A. J. Mc Adams, K O. Mc- 
Adams, W. N. McAdams, ^\. H. McCaw, E. P. McClintock, 
W. "W. Miller, J. A. Morene, W. B. Morgan, W. B. Morrow, 
J. A. Morrow, J. P. Morrow, W. L. Mosely, B. B. Neel, F. M. 
Nelson, J. B. Oneal, W. H. Henderson, S. A. Henderson, G. 
E. L. Palmer, A. N. Pitts, J. D. Pitts, T. J. W. Pratt, F. V. 
Pruit, F. E. Eandell, J. B. Reagin, J. S. Ruif, J. K. Seals, J. 
B. Seawright, W. C. Scott, G. M. Sibert, J. H. Sibert, J. H. 
Simpson, S. Smith, T. N. Smith, G. M. Smith, J. E. Stone, 
G. B. Suber, G. Taylor, M. M. Teaguo, P. A. Tribble, J. S. 
Turner, W. L. Turner, W. I. Turney, A. J. Waddell, J. A. 
Wakefield, W. W. Wallace, J. B. Watts, J. Q. Wilbur, J. L. 
Wilson, J. S. Wilson, W. W. Wilson, A. E. Woodham, J. M. 
Workman. Total Privates, llO ; Commissioned officers, 4 ; 
Non-commissioned officers, {). Rank and file, 127. 

Benjamin F. Clark, Jasper G. Clark, W. S. Jennings, M. H. 
AVitt, detached as musicians and buglers at headquarter line. 



The roll of Co. E, 8d Regiment, as published (p. 391), gives 
only a partial list of the casualties. The data was obtained 
from the roll. Why only a part of the casualties was given, 
I do not know. I am glad to be able to give this additional 
history, obtained from C. F. Boyd, W. H. Blats, B. H. Love- 
lace and W. W. Riser, members of the company, who now 
reside in Newberry. It is only from memory, but I feel sure 
it is accurate, and no doubt covers the case fully. I regret 
that it did not appear along with the roll. Y. J. Pope was 
promoted to Adjutant of the Regiment at the reorganization, 
April, 1862 ; lost an eye at Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864. 

C. F. Boyd was shot through the luno-s at Cedar Creek. W- 

D. Rutherford was made Adjutant soon after the company 
entered the service, and at the reorganization in 1862 was 
elected Majoi*, and afterwards promoted to Colonel. He was 
killed at the battle of Strasburg, October 13, 1864. Thomas 



ANNAI.H OK NEWBEBBY. 447 

S. Moorman was woniKlcfl at tijf; Wildemosa. William H. 
Thompson was Uh* first miriAxr of Uio company kill<*d in 
baltlf;, and is Iho samo man rnf-ritioricd as V.'il'iam Thompson 
in th(^ roll of i>rivat<'K. William Hood was wounded at 
Tho nam« of John K. Ariderhon, ifi the \>nji\<"\ roll, should 
b(3 John K. AndrfWH. Calvin B. Adam«, ?n(Uitionod in tho 
roll, should bo Colvin 13. Adatiis; wounded at Gettysburj^. 
Samuel L. Atchison was wounded at Gettysbui{^. It. W. Ad- 
kins died of disease at — . William H. T'lats was woutjded at 
Cedar Creek, (October 19, 1804, and at Spottsylvania, May, 
1804. William J'itts Boyd, mentioned in the roll, should be 
Minor P. Boyd; wounded in a skirmish around itichmond in 
1802. Charlie S. Bridges, in the roll, should hn Charlie S. 
Burgess. Thomas C. Brown was promoted to Assistant-Surgeon 
of the Third Begiment, and did good service. Jeff. E. Brown 
was d(;tailed as a courier to General Longstreet. S. S. Derrick, 
in the published roll, should bo George C. Derrick. John G. 
Duckett was wound^jd at Frf'dericksburg. Michael Foot w.'is 
wounded at Savage Station. Leonidas K. Glasgow lost an arm 
at 2nd Wilderness, May, 1804. Samu»4 J. Hiller lost a leg at 
Cedar Creek, October 10, 1804. James Lindsay was killed at 
Cedar Creek. B. H. Lovelace was shot through the face at 
Chickamauga, September 20, 180:>. Thomas M. Lake was 
wounded in the battles around Richmond. Lawrence li. Mar- 
shall lost an arm at 2nd Wilderness, May, 1804. Samuel J. 
McCaughrin \vas wounded at Chickamauga. J. W. Mathis, in 
the roll, should be John M. Mathis: wounded at — . There was 
only one Thomas Marshall in tlie company, and his name was 
Thomas P. Marshall. He died of disease in Tennessee in 1803. 
J. Wirick Odell was wounded at Bentonville, N. C. Osborne 
L. Schumpert was wounded at Cedar Creek, October 10, 1804, 
while acting as Orderly to the Colonel of tlie- regiment. George 
C. Riser was wounded at Cedar Creek; taken prisoner, and 
exchanged at Richmond just before the surrender. 

Lieutenant John V. Ii;iriks, < f Company G, Thirteenth 
S. C. Regiment (p. ''88 j, was jiroi.Moted to Captain, .ln'r-.oh B. 
Fellers lost an arm in battle at. Second Manassas an 1 resigned. 
J. H. Cannon, 3d Lieutenant, resigned in 1801. J. ^f. Whfrler 
was promoted to 1st Lieutenan*. v/ounded v.t Sh'ir;>sburg — lis- 
ablfd and resigned. W^m. Jennings lost an arm. G. S. Lobb 



448 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

in the roll should be G. Luther Bobb. The naaie of David 
Duncan should be added to this roll. 

John P. Stewart, on the roll of Company B, Third Regiment' 
(p. 388) was wounded at Knoxville, Tenn., and died of disease 
at Rock Island, 111., in 1864. 

To the roll of Co. H, 3d S. C. Regiment (p. 421), should be 
added the names of Jacob J. Hipp, W. Anderson Werts, Charles 
P. Dickert, the latter being from Lexington at the time of enlist- 
ment, but long a citizen of Newberry. William Monts had six 
sons in the war, five of whom were in this company. The 
four who were killed in battle or died during the war were: 
Frank, James, Thomas and Nelson. John W. is already men- 
tioned. The sixth is Jacob, still living. Henry M. Long, a 
member of this company, died in service from measles. 
Adam I. Hipp, who was a sergeant of the company, was 
wounded at Maryland Heights. B. Fletcher Dickert, a brother 
of Captain D. A. Dickert, also a member of Co. H, was killed 
in battle at Chickamauga. J. J. Gallman, wounded at Get- 
tysburg. S. H. Folk, died in service. Dr. J. O. Dickert, 
originally from Lexington, but after the war a citizen and 
physician near Chappells for many years and until his death. 
George Long, died in service. M. Livingston, died in service. 
Thomas Metts, wounded. Robert I. Stoudemire, from Lexing- 
ton at beginning of war, but for many years a citizen of 
Newberry. 

R. S. Bradley, Company B, First Regiment (p. 400), 
should be Pinckney Bradley. James Lane (p. 411) should 
be James Love. 

S. Dugan Boyd, printed in the roll of Company D, (p. 414) 
Thirteenth S. C. Regiment, should be Dugan L. Boyd. To 
this roll should be added the names of Thomas Gordon, 
J. A. Rikard and G. A. Setzler. Dr. Spencer G. Welch, a 
member of this company, was detailed as assistant surgeon. 

The name of Robert Cannon in the roll of Company B, 
Third Regiment (p. 389}, should be Robert Connor. On the 
same roll Robert P. Green should be Robert P. Greer. 

Frank S. Murzott, printed in the roll of Company D, (p. 416) 
Thirteenth Regiment, S. C. V., should be Frank S. Margart. 

I regret the necessity of having to make this addendum, 
but it seemed impossible to get the data before the pre- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 449 

ceding pages were printed, and, rather than have the facts lost, 
they have been inserted in this irregular way. I feel that 
there are yet names and facts we ought to have; but the 
printing has been delayed and the rolls re-examined and 
every effort made to get all the facts, and if there are 
still errors we feel that we have done the best we could, 
and no name nor important fact has been intentionally 
omitted. It is hoped the reader will appreciate the effort 
that has been made. 



y^ The Furnas Family. 

In addition to what Mr. David Jones, of Ohio, has related 
of this family, I have learned that Joseph Furnas, one of the 
old Quakers of Bush Eiver, mentioned by Judge O'Neall in his 
Annals, never moved to Ohio ; that he died either in Charles- 
ton or Newberry; that the family first located at Charleston 
when they came to South Carolina. From Charleston they 
moved to Newberry. Joseph Furnas left four sons, Robert, 
The mas W., William and John. Sarah, the great traveler, 
mentioned by Mr. Jones, married Dr. Wells, who was also a 
traveler of note. 

Thomas W. was, a number of terms, member of the Ohio 
Legislature, and also several terms Sheriff of Miama County in 
that State. His active son, William, was the father of Robert 
W. Furnas, Governor of Nebraska in 1874, in which State he 
has resided for thirty -six years, from the beginning of Terri- 
torial government. During this period he has held many im- 
portant State and national offices. He was Colonel and Gen- 
eral in the War of Secession, and came very nearly being a 
member of President Harrison's cabinet as Secretary of Agri- 
culture. At this time, 1892, he is Secretary of the State Board 
of Agriculture. His son John resided for a time in California; 
and this fact led Mr. Jones into his error. 



O'Neall — Burning of Columbia. 

While writing of the far off descendants of Newberrians I 
feel moved to introduce here an extract from a letter written 
by Hugh O'Neall, of Bellevue, Nebraska, dated December 7, 
1890. He says: H 



450 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

"You spoke of a man 'doing right while in the army. Obe- 
dience to orders makes a good sokiier.' I did many things 
under orders that I considered wrong, but never anything vol- 
tmtarily that I thought was wrong. One thing that I witnessed 
I always condemned, and always shall — that was the burning 
of Columbia. That town was surrendered to the brigade I 
belonged to. We marched into town about eleven o'clock, 
February 17, 1865, and my regiment stacked arms in the mar- 
ket-house; and by four or live o'clock, it seems to me, there 
were not twenty sober men in the brigade. The drug stores 
were burst open and whiskey carried out by the bucket-fulh 
ftnd men got drunk before they knew what tliey were doing; 
and I consider the burning the work of a drunken mob, and 
surely was not sanctioned by Logan or Sherman, or any other 
reasonable man. I know I was sober, for I never drank of 
intoxicating liquors in my life,, and think I saw things as they 
were as near as any man that Avas there. Although history is 
silent on a great many points, they are as fresh in my mind 
as when I witnessed them. As I stood there that night and 
Witnessed these things, I could but think, if God was a just 
God, these things would surely come home to the parties that 
upheld these things. 

"It may not come in my life time, but I surely think it will 
come. I think it will come in the shape of labor against cap- 
ital, and will not be confined to any particular section, but the 
East willl suffer the worst." 

This writer has always thought that General Sherman should 
never have denied that he burned Columbia. He ought to have 
owned it and justified the act. The purpose of the war was 
to crush the "rebellion," and the more effectual the means 
taken, the better. The burning of Columbia was an act of 
vandalism no greater than the laying waste of the country 
through which his army passed. It was an act of vandalism 
no greater than the issuing of the Emancipation Proclama- 
tion by President Lincoln, January 1, 1863. War is no 
children's pastime; and it is a fact that the outposts of hell 
are planted all along in this world. It is a terrible fact that 
every human bosom is the battle-ground between the firmly 
planted pickets and hosts of hell and the angelic and heavenly 
bodies. 

And what are you going to do about it ? 



annals of newberry. 451 

Reflections. 

In writing the Annals of Newberry it has not been any part 
of my purpose to write a history of the War between the ^States. 
I have sought only to make a record of the names of all from 
Newberry who were engaged in that great conflict. In this I 
hope I have very nearly succeeded. On the 9th of April, 1805, 
General Lee surrendered the remnant of his army — just four 
years after the war began. 



The War with Mexico. 

As part of the military history of Newberry I give here 
the roll of Co. L, No. 11, being the names of the volunteers 
in the war with Mexico, with the casualties of the company 
during that war: 

J. H. Williams, Captain, age 80, Newberry; entered service 
January 20, 1847. C. F. Pope, 1st Lieutenant, age 27, Edge- 
field; entered service January 20, 1847. J. W. Stewart, 2nd 
Lieutenant, age 21, NewberrjS furloughed by General Scott. 
E. F. Williams, 8d Lieutenant, age 35; in charge of sick at 
Puebla. J. C. C. Enlow, 1st Sergeant, age 28; died at Vera 
Cruz, May 4, 1847. James Denson, 2nd Sergeant, age 80; 
killed at Churubusco, August 20, 1847. H. P. Pratt, 3d Ser- 
geant, age 21; sick at Puebla, August 8; died October 26, 
1847. T. B. Thomson, 4th Sergeant, age 32; discharged 
August 7, 1847, at Vera Cruz. J. Culbreath, 1st Corporal, 
age 27, Edgefield; 1st Sergeant, August 20, 1847. John A. 
Spears, 2nd Corporal, age 85, Laurens; 2nd Sergeant, August 
20, 1847. W. P. Feltman, 8d Corporal, age 24; resigned 3d 
Corporal, August 20, 1847. John Watts, 4th Corporal, age 
26; 8d Corporal, August 20; died at Mexico, October 12, 
1847. Julius Harris, musician; died July 15, 1847, at Puebla. 

Privates— Anderson, Wm., age 19; sick at Vera Cruz, April 
18; died May 30. Armstrong, C. W., age 20; sick at Jalapa, 
May 7; died at Pereta. Abney, G. H., age 19; wounded 
severely at Churubusco. Anderson, Thomas, age 20; trans- 
ferred to Co. D., P. R., S. C. v., April 8. Bundrick, Abner, 
age 24; died at Vera Cruz, May 17, 1847. Brook, John B., 
age 27. Brown, W. T., age 22. Bone, Geo., age 28; sick at 



452 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

Puebla, August 8; died September 23. Burton, Ferdinand, 
age 20, Edgefield. Brown, D. J., age 20. Chapman, Thos., 
age 19. Culkin, Wm., age 28; died at Jalapa, June 5, 1847. 
Clopton, Mastin, age 19. Clanton, J. H. Carwile, R. C, age 
19; died at Jalapa. Callohum, Thos., age 20; left sick at 
Penal, May 14. Cole, David, age 2o; died at Pereta. Clod- 
felter, L. H., age 30; died at Tacubaya, September 15, from 
wound received at Chepultepee. Dun, John, age 22; sick at 
Puebla, August 8; died August 20. Downing, J. W., age 22; 
sick at Puebla, August 8; died August 23. Ennis, Aldrich, 
age 19; died at Vera Cruz, May 30, 1847. Feagle, Adam, 
age 19; wovinded severely at Chepultepee, September 13. 
Ford, Thomas, age 23; died at Jalapa, May 18, 1847. Gush- 
man, Geo., age 36, Hamburg, Holland; died at Pereta, July 
11. Gary, V. R., age 23; wounded severely at Churubusco. 
Griffin, L. D., age 26; died at Pereta, June 16. Graham, 
John, age 35; wounded severely at Chepultepee. Hilburn, 
Hugh, age 40; died at Pereta, June 30, 1847. Hollis, Liv- 
ingston, age 34; sick in hospital. Hutchinson, AVm., age 22; 
died at Vera Cruz, May 1, 1847. Hogg, Thomas, age 20. 
Hair, Mathias, age 19; died at Puebla, i\ugust 3. Hilburn, 
Wm., age 19; died at Pereta, June 30. Higgins, J. C, age 
21; wounded severely at Chepultepee. Howard, John, age 32; 
died at Mexico, August 8. Holt, Joseph, age 35; died at 
Jalapa, June 4, 1847. Jackson, J. P., age 19; left at Puebla, 
June 4, 1847. Kerr, A. J., age 20; sick at Puebla, August 8, 
1847; died. Lane, J. J., age 21; died at Jalapa, June 7. 
Lindsay, Thos., age 20; left sick at Puebla, August 8. Little, 
Allen, age 20, Edgefield; wounded at Garieta; died October 25. 
Lyles, R. B., age 21, Fairfield; wounded severely at Garieta. 
Morris, Ferdinand, age 35; left sick at Puebla, August 8. 
McGill, Samuel, age 24; left sick May 12; died May 13. 
Mathis, Ben J., age 19. McFarlane, John. McClelland, Fer- 
gus, age 34; left sick at Vera Cruz, April 18. McClelland, 
Wm., age 25; died at Vera Cruz, June 29. Meek, Wm., age 
24; died at Puebla. Nance, F. S., age 19; promoted 3d Ser- 
geant, August 20. Nance, Rutherford, age 26; appointed 4th 
Sergeant, August 20. Nates, Jesse, age 38; died at Puebla, 
August 31. O'Neall, J. Belton; ktiled. O'Neall, McBelton, 
age 21, Union; wounded at Churubusco. Presnell, Jacob, age 



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27. Pitts, Zadoc, age 28. Pitts, John, age 26; discharged by 
General Act of Congress. Pope, V. B., age 32; appointed 
Corporal, August 20, 1847. O'Neall, Wm., age 30; left sick 
at Puebla, August 8. Riser, D. M., age 20. Spense, James, 
age 36; died at Puebla, June 12. Summers, Wm., age 41; 
died at Puebla, July 5. Summers, H. H., age 25. Summers, 
J. P., age 28; died at Puebla, July 28. Smith, M. D., age 
32. Sheppard, ^Ym., age 18; wounded severely at Churubusco. 
Suber, Hii'am, age 27; wounded slightly at Garieta. Stanal, 
L. B., age 40; died at Jalapa, May 18. Sheely, John S., 
Edgefield; Corporal, August 20; killed at Chepultepec. Warner, 
Jacob, age 21. Warner, Henry, age 19. Warner, G. W., age 
20; sick at Pereta. Watson, H. W., age 28; left sick at 
Pinal, May 14; not heard of since. Wood, Charles, age 23; 
wounded at Churubusco; died in Mexico from his wounds, 
September 23. Weathersbee, Owen, age 26; left sick at 
Puebla, August 8. Waldroj), W. R., age 22; wounded at 
Churubusco. Thomas, M. M., age 23. Tencle, James J., age 
25. McFarland, John, age 26, from Boston, Mass. Mustered 
into service April 30, at Jalapa, by Captain Dent. 

I am not at all sure that all the names in this x'oU are 
spelled correctly. I had two lists before me and they did 
not entirely correspond one with the other. The reader will 
perceive that but few were killed in battle, but that the loss 
from death by disease was considerable. 

Giles Chapman, an elder brother of the writer, in the 2nd 
Indiana Regiment, was killed at the battle of Buena Vista, 
with two others, while endeavoring to remove a wounded 
comrade from the field, choosing to die with him rather than 
desert him. Pierced with ten wounds without a stain of 
blood on his shirt. 



Dr. Jacob H. King and Nicholas Summer, Esq. 

The following incident of the Florida war in the lives of 
Dr. Jacob H. King and Nicholas Summer has been kindly 
contributed by Dr. O. B. Mayer, Sr. : 

"In 1840-41, I and Dr. Jacob H. King practiced medicine 
in copartnership, in the Dutch Fork. In our rides together 
he narrated to me some of his adventures in the Florida war. 



454 ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. 

He and Nicholas Summer, of the Newberry Bar, were officers 
in the same company, if I am not mistaken. A grave diffi- 
culty was still pending between them; and it had been pre- 
vented from ending in a hostile meeting only by the inter- 
ference of friends. The incident now to be narrated, and 
which I give as nearly as possible in the Doctor's words, is 
an instance of true nobleness of heart that well deserves 
preservation. 

" 'It was our first battle with the Indians,' said the Doctor. 
'I was mounted upon a fleet horse and was riding at full 
speed towards the hammock into which the enemy had fled, 
and from which was issuing their war whooj^s in the most 
infernal shrieks and yells imaginable. The cracks of their 
rifles could scarcely be distinguished one from another; and 
the pine needles, cut from the pine tops by the Indians aiming 
too high, were falling like a shower of rain. I heard the 
voice of Nicholas Summer, between whom and myself there 
had for a long time been no friendly feeling. He had just 
received a serious wound and had fallen from his horse. The 
words he shouted were these: 'Don't let them scalp me.' I 
rode up to him and found him screwing a bayonet to his 
musket, with a view of selling his life dearly. A feeling came 
over me which made me insensible to danger, and I placed 
myself and horse before him to screen him from further hurt. 
It was surely at the risk of my own life, for the bullets were 
whizzing fearfully around me. Just then the Richland com- 
pany came past us and charged the hammock, driving the 
Indians out of hearing. I dismounted and placed Summer 
in as comfortable a position as was possible, and enjoyed a 
luxury of feeling I had never before experienced, when, during 
the mutual pressure of our hands, he said to me: 'I can never 
forget your kindness to me.' My great regi'et is that I never 
saw him again; for, as you know, he died of his wound some 
months afterwards at Tampa Bay.' O. B. M., Sr." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKT, 455 



IV. 
WAR TIMES IN NEWBERRY. 

THE CLOSING DAYS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. 

The following is from an occasional correspondent of the 
News and Courier : 

Birmingham, Ala., February 9, 18 — . 

Judge O'Neall, in his "Annals of Newberry," quotes Colonel Robert 
Rutherford, one of the early settlers, as saying that "South Carolina was 
the garden spot of the world, and Newberry was the garden spot of that 
garden spot." That was certainly an enthusiastic expression, but it may 
be said, perhaps truly, that Newberry is the prettiest farming district in 
the State, the lands being beautifully undulating over almost the entire 
boundary. 

My present purpose is to call up some recollections of Newberry during 
the closing days of the war, now nearly twenty years ago. After the burn- 
ing of Columbia, in February, 18(53, Newberry became something of a mil- 
itary post and station on the line running across from Chester to Abbe- 
ville, S. C, and Washington, Ga. All couriers between the two armies 
reported at the Newberry office, which was in charge of the writer, who 
was compelled, from the necessities of the times, to assume a kind of mili- 
itary governorship of the place. A company of sixty veteran Georgians' 
commanded by a lieutenant, on their way to Johnston's army, were will- 
ingly pressed into service, besides a number of home guards and others, 
aggregating in all about one hundred men. With this force to back him, 
the commanding officer undertook to defend Newberry against Kilpat- 
rick's bummers, that hung upon the skirts of Sherman's passing columns- 
Regular pickets were posted at Hunt's Cross Roads, two miles from town' 
and scouts were sent out day and night to watch the enemy. One of these 
scouts, a photographic artist, was captured at Pomaria Station, on the 
Greenville and Columbia Railroad. With an eye to the beautiful in na- 
ture, he had ridden up the hill to view the enemy from afar, but he never 
rode down again. He was carried over into Chester, and after a few days 
was released and returned to the bosom of his profession at Newberry, a 
sadder but wiser man. 

One morning the scouts brought in four of the house-burners and rob- 
bers, who were at once ordered to Chester, but the guards returned next 
day and reported the prisoners "lost." On another occasion a prisoner 
was "lost" near Frog Level, but was found next day suspended from the 
limb of a tree. Mr. Henry Summer, who lived in the Fork, told me a 
thrilling story of how these vandals came to his house, placed a rope 
around his neck, and forced him to give up his money. Mr. Summer was 



456 ANNALS or NEWBEEEY. 

a mau of fine reading, and a learned lawyer, and often kindly called upon 
me. It was a treat to hear him talk. During those times of vigilance 
and anxiety, one morning at four o'clock a note was received from General 
B. F. Cheatham, who had reached Frog Level with troops from the Army 
of Tennessee. He was trying to join General Johnston, in North Caro- 
lina, and requested me to send a scout to a certain ford on Broad River, 
and report at once. Which was done. General Cheatham was at and 
around Newberry about a week, and his manoeuvring there is matter of 
history. General Stewart was there at the same time, and remained at 
my office a number of days. He had just been appointed Lieutenant- 
General, but too late, as the war was nearly over. A number of prominent 
Generals were passing through Newberry about this time, without com- 
mands, and were going, they knew not where. Vice-President Stephens 
passed through, en route to his home in Georgia. Being asked at the 
depot what he thought of the prospect, he replied : "Well, we will hold on 
till the breechings break." The first straggling soldier who brought the 
news of Lee's surrender was discredited and questioned sharply by Y. J. 
Pope. He replied : "Well, gentlemen, it won't be long before you will see 
lots of them that will tell you the same." They came. 

But the most grateful recollection in the time of my duties at Newberry 
was that in which I had the honor of transferring and forwarding Mrs. 
President Davis and party and the Confederate gold. Lieutenant Harker 
reported at mj' office on Sunday morning at six o'clock, and said he was 
in charge of Mrs. Davis and the government specie, with a guard of sixty 
marines then entering the town. He requested transportation, and a suit- 
able special car was at once ordered from the Helena shops. During the 
few hours that jNIrs. Davis was in waiting she remained at a small govern- 
ment office on the railroad platform, and declined all hospitalities from 
the good citizens who sought to do her honor. While standuig on the 
platform a courier dfshed up and handed her a note from the flying Pres- 
ident. She and her sister, Miss Howell, were quite pleasant to those 
around them, and at times oven cheerful. Miss Howell, on being play- 
fully asked to remain, laughingly replied that she "wanted to go with the 
money." 

At two o'clock all were on board, and the last and best part of the Con- 
federacy rolled out for Abbeville and Washington, Ga. Not long after — 
but j'ou know the rest. 

During an administration of fourteen months in Newberry John P. Ki- 
nard, George DeWalt and Dr. Harrington were my advisers, and we held 
many a secret council of state — I mean, of war. Mr. DeWalt often dis- 
sented from the opinion of the council, but was a safe counsellor, guide 
and friend. Dr. Harrington was the courtly and refined gentleman, and 
Major Kinard the genial, affable and sagacious man of the people. Take 
them all in all, I shall not see their like again. Dr. Mayer and Silas 
Johnstone were my companions in chess, friendship and joy. Dr. Mayer 
was a believer in ghosts, and told me he could show a troop of them any 
time at a place six miles from Newberry. But I never went to see them. 
During those days Mr. Lambert J. Jones and Burr J. Ramage were regular 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 457 

practitioners in the Conscript Court. Sometimes some of their clients 
paid their fees in provisions. When Mr. Ramage had received a good, 
large country-cured ham from down about Frog I^evel, he pressed his 
case very hard, and often with success ; for meat hath its victories as well 
as war. 

Many other pleasant reminiscences of Newberry abide with me, and 
fonder names cluster near my heart, but are to be mentioned "nevermore." 
Qood-hye. 

The foregoing was written by Captain F. N. Walker, of 
Spartanburg, who, having been disabled by a wound, was sta- 
tioned at Newberry as enrolling officer, in performance of the 
duties of which office he remained, as he states, about fourteen 
months at that place. 

"By the way," says 'Gilderoy,' in the Southern Christian 
Advocate, "I will never forget a thing that occurred in 
Newberry as we came home after the surrender. The sol- 
diers raided the government stores in that town, and in 
every other town as we came on home. At Newberry they 
rolled some barrels of molasses into the streets and knocked 
in the heads, and each man as he passed by dipped in his 
canteen and filled it with 'treacle,' as they call it in England. 
We had with us a low, squatty, duck-legged Jew, a jolly 
good fellow, not more than five feet high, if that tall. Levi 
was exceedingly anxious to fill his canteen, but the molasses 
had gotten down so low he could not reach it over the 
chime of the barrel, and his taller Gentile friends were too 
busy helping themselves to wait on him, so he jumped 
with his stomach on the chime of the barrel and reached 
down and began to fill his canteen. Some wicked Gentile 
just behind, with a keen eye for fan, took Levi by the 
off hind leg and set him square on his head in the barrel, 
where the molasses was a foot and a half or too feet deep. 
Some kind friends pulled him out and laid him on a plank 
to dry. I do not think I would be putting it too strong 
to say he was the sweetest looking Jew I ever saw. Levi 
was 'as mad as an old wet hen,' as the old saying goes." 



The Women of Newberry During the War. 

That the women of Newberry did their duty, and their 
whole duty, during the war, it is almost needless to say. 



458 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Boxes of goods, consisting of clothing, shoes, and occasionally 
a little coffee and home-made delicacies — the best possible 
that could be obtained — were forwarded by every opportunity 
to the men in camp during winter quarters, and at all times, 
through soldiers returning to their commands. Ginger bread, 
or simply cakes, sweetened with sorghum, was very nice. But 
sorghum rum, of which there was some made — but not by the 
women — was not nice. There was a good deal of corn whiskey 
and peach brandy, which were much better than sorghtim rum. 
By the way, the last drink of whiskey I ever bought in a 
grog shop I bought from a woman at a bar in Columbia 
when once on my return home from the army on furlough. 
I do not say it was the last whiskey I have ever drunk, but 
the last dram I ever took at a bar. But I do not think the 
women of Newberry ever helped to make the sorghum rum, 
corn whiskey or peach brandy. 

Before I joined the army, which I cannot say was altogether 
voluntary, though I went as a volunteer, I saw the women of 
Newberry doing all they could and exerting themselves daily to 
forward supplies of whatever might be needed to their loved ones 
in the army. And when the sick and wounded and disabled 
began to pass through Newberry to their homes elsewhere, 
there were always at the depot some ladies to meet them, to 
wait upon them and to supply their wants as far as possible 
This was the rule at every station on the road, not only at 
Newberry, but everywhere and every day. I remember one 
good lady who made it her daily business for a long time to 
feed the returning soldiers, especially if disabled, on the road 
between Columbia and Branchville. Her home was at Orange- 
burg, and being at that time quite wealthy, she felt it no 
hardship nor any loss to spend in this way. On my return 
home, disabled and still suffering from my wound, when the 
train stopped at Orangeburg she stepped on board with a 
basket on her arm. I had scarcely had anything to eat since 
I left Macon, and being convalescent I was qui'.e hungry. I 
smiled and bowed to her and she came to me at once. She 
opened her basket and gave me to eat as long as I wanted. 
This good woman, Mrs. Rowe, lived about twenty years longer, 
dying in the year 1883 or 1884, loved and honored by all 
who knew her. I never saw her afterwards, but I hope to 



ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 459 

meet her and thank her in heaven. She did what she could. 

On the night of the 12th of August, 1804, I lodged at the 
Wayside Hospital in Columbia, S. C. At Silver Street, in 
Newberry County, the ladies had a most bountiful dinner for 
the sick and wounded soldiers going home, a supply of which 
they brought me to my seat, as I was not able to get out 
without help, and I ate until I was ashamed. 

The ladies of the town of Newberry not only furnished 
clothing and other supplies for the men in the army and fed 
the passing soldiers, but they also, in the year 1864, I think 
it was, established a house of rest and repose for the wounded 
and weary who were compelled to stop awhile on the way. 
They also converted the Court House into a hospital for the 
sick. Where all the women were trying to do their best, and. 
did it, I hesitate to write any names. But I have heard 
mentioned in this connection Mrs. Higgins, Mrs. P. B. Ruff,. 
Mrs. Lambert J. Jones and Mrs. J. J. Brantley; and from 
their well known active benevolence of character, I can very 
readily believe that they would be foremost in every good 
word and work. 

The compiler of these Annals knows very little of what 
took place at Newberry from the summer of 1863 to the close 
of the war, and, indeed, until the first of 1866, as he was a 
soldier at the front and did not return to Newberry until 
some months after the close of the war. But he remembers 
well, before he went into service, how active, how nobly 
active, all the women of Newberry were in relieving the ne- 
cessities and sufferings of the soldiers. 

In this connection it may be well to revert to old times, 
and relate one or two incidents that occurred in Newberry 
County in our Revolutionary struggle, illustrating the heroic 
courage and strength of women under trying circumstances. 
Judge O'Neall gives these incidents in his "Random Recollec- 
tions of Revolutionary Characters and Incidents," published*, 
in the Southern Literary Journal, 1838, pages 104 and 105, 
but he did not insert them in his Annals. 

James Gauntt, who was long a worthy citizen of New- 
berry, and who died on the 21st day of January, 1890, at the 
advanced age of 89 years, was a grandson of the Israel Gauntt 
mentioned in the narrative. The daughter, Hannah, was the^ 



460 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

grandmother of Joseph Mooney, who once owned and occupied 
the brick house that stood, and was destroyed by the fire of 
1806, on a part of the ground now covered by the Crotwell 
Building. I quote from "The Women of the American Revo- 
lution," by Mrs. E. F. Ellet, vol. 2, p. 298: 

"A man named Hubbs, who bad served with the bloody tory and rene- 
gade Cunningham in South Carolina, was an 'out-lier' during the war. 
At one time he proposed, with two confederates, to rob an old man of 
Quaker habits — Israel Gauntt — who was reputed to be m the possession 
of money. The three rode up one evening to the house and asked lodg- 
ing, which was refused. Hubbs rode to the kitchen door, in which Mrs. 
Gauntt was standing, and asked for water. He sprang in while she 
turned to get the water, and as she handed it to him she saw his arms. 
Her husband, informed of this, secured the doors. Hubbs presented his 
pistol at him; but his deadly purpose was frustrated by the old man's 
daughter, Hannah. She threw up the weapon, and, being of masuline 
proportions and strength, grappled with and threw him on the floor, 
where she held him, though wounded by his spurs— in spite of his des- 
perate struggles — till he was disabled by her father's blows. Gauntt was 
wounded through the window by Hubbs' companions, and another ball 
grazed his heroic daughter just above the eye; but both escaped without 
further injury. Hannah afterwards married a man named Mooney. The 
gentleman (Judge O'Neall) who relates the foregoiog incident has often 
seen her, and describes her as one of the kindest and most benevolent of 
women. She died about the age of fifty, and her grandson, a worthy and 
excellent man, is now living in the village of Newberry. 

"The same compa'iy of marauders, with Moultrie, another of Cunning- 
ham's gang, visited Andrew Lee's house, at Lee's Ferry, Saluda Eiver, 
for the purpose of plunder. Moultrie succeeded in effecting an entrance 
into the hoase. Lee seized and held him, and they fell together on a 
bed; when he called to his wife, Mary, to strike him on the head with an 
axe. Her first blow, in her agitation, fell on her husband's hand; but she 
'repeated it, and stunned Moultrie, who fell on the floor insensible. Lee, 
■with his negroes and dogs, then drove away the other robbers, and on his 
return secured Moultrie, who was afterwards hanged in Ninety-Six." 

In the next Section I will relate the story of Emily Geiger, 

the brave Newberry girl of the Revolution. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 461 



THE STORY OF EMILY GEIGER. 

When General Greene retreated from Ninety-Six after his 
unsuccessful assault upon that place in June, 1781, he crossed 
the Saluda River and passed through the upper part of what 
is now Newberry County, pursued by Lord Rawdon until he 
crossed the Enoree. Before his rear-guard had left the south 
side of this river the van of Lord Rawdon's army appeared 
in pursuit. But his lordship hesitated to make an attack 
upon General Greene's cavalry, which was commanded by 
Colonels Lee and Washington. And while he paused at this 
place, Greene moved on towards Broad River, near which he 
halted and encamped, in the fork of Enoree and Broad Rivers, 
in Newberry County. About two miles from where he had 
camped with his weary and disheartened troops stood the 
residence of a well-to-do farmer named John Geiger, an 
ardent ^^atriot, but an invalid and unable to serve his country 
in arms. His daughter Emily, about 18 years of age, was as 
ardent a patriot as himself, and was often heard to say: "Oh! 
that I were a man, that I could fight for my country," when- 
ever she heard of any American reverses, or of any outrages 
committed by the British or tories. 

On the third day of General Greene's encampment at this 
place a neighbor of Geiger's dropped in to see him. 

"What news?" asked Geiger. 

"Lord Rawdon has determined to abandon the Fort at 
Ninety-Six." 

"Are you certain?" 

"Yes. General Greene received the intelligence this morn- 
ing. Rawdon has sent word to Colonel Stuart to move with 
his regiment from Charleston to Friday's Ferry, on the Con- 
garee, where he intends to join him as soon as possible. 
Cruger is left at Ninety- Six with orders to move at once with 
his tory recruits and their property and take a route that will 
put the Edisto between him and the American forces. Moving 
down south of the Edisto to Orangeburg, he will, from that, 
place, make a junction with Rawdon at Friday's Ferry." 



402 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY, ' 

"Then they will divide their forces?" 

"Yes." 

"Greene will then attack Cruger?" 

"No," replied the neighbor, "Greene proposes to pursue 
Rawdon and strike a more effective blow." 

"Why did he not light him at the Saluda?" 

"General Sumter was not with him." 

"Nor is he now." 

"No," said the neighbor, "and I fear that he will not join 
him as he so desires, as he can find no one willing to become 
a bearer of despatches to Sumter. All the country between 
here and Sumter is full of tories, elated by our d-^^feat at 
Ninety- Six, who would certainly murder any man who under- 
takes the journey." 

"Oh! that I were able," said the old man; "I would risk it. 
But these feeble limbs refuse to bear me on the journey." 

"You would commit an act of folly," said the neighbor. 

"No," replied the farmer, "but one of true devotion to my 
country." 

Emily Geiger heard all that passed between her father and 
the neighbor, and she murmured to herself, as she had so 
often done before: "Oh! that I were a man." But she was 
only a girl, and what could a girl do when brave men shrank 
from such an undertaking. "If I were only a man!" she 
murmured, again and again, long after the neighbor had 
departed. 

In the meantime. General Greene had been informed by 
Colonel Lee of the proposed abandonment of Ninety-Six, and 
he was now preparing to strike Lord Rawdon a decisive blow 
while the British forces were divided. But it was necessary, 
in order to make sure of victory, that Sumter should be 
informed of his designs and that they should unite their 
forces. But so far he had found no messenger. The service 
was too dangerous. 

On the morning of the day in which he proposed to begin 
his movements. General Greene sat in his tent lost in deep 
thought. Since taking the command of the Southern army, 
the odds against him had been fearful and the difficulties 
appalling. But still he had gained and the enemy was 
weaker than at first. And now, if he could strike one more 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 46.^ 

good blow, be felt that he could destroy him. But the force 
with him was too weak and Sumter was far away — over a 
hundred miles. If he could effect a junction with him before 
Lord Rawdon reached Friday's Ferry on the Congaree, he 
had hopes of success. But the messenger was wanting. 
While deeply pondering these things an officer entered and 
said: 

"A young country girl is before the tent and wishes to 
speak with you." 

"Tell her to come in," replied the General. 

The officer withdrew, and in a short time returned in com- 
pany with a young girl, who was dressed in a closely fitting 
riding habit, carrying a small whip in her hand. She curt- 
sied respectfully as she entered. The General rose and 
returned her salutation. 

"I have been told. General," she said, while a deep blush 
suffused her face, "that you are in want of a bearer of 
despatches to General Sumter." 

"I am," replied the General, "but I have found no one yet 
bold enough to undertake the mission." 

"Send me," said Emily, while a brave light shone brightly 
in her eyes. 

"Send you!" exclaimed the General. "You! Oh, no, child; 
I could not do that. It is a journey from which brave men 
hold back." 

"I am not a brave man," said Emily; "I am only a woman, 
but I will go." 

Pausing awhile, General Greene then said: "Will you go 
on this journey alone?" 

"Give me a fleet horse and I will bear your message 
safely." 

"Alone?" 

"Yes, alone." 

"What is your name?" then inquired the General. 

"Emily Geiger." 

"Is your father living?" 

"Yes." 

"Have you his consent?" 

"He knows nothing of my intjntioa. Bai; h3 loves 'lis 
country, and were it not for sickness he would now bj in 



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arms with you; but he is not able. His head and heart both 
must approve my act, though his heart might fail him were 
I to ask his consent. Do not hesitate, General. Heaven has 
sent you a messenger, and you must accept the service when 
so much is at stake." 

"Noble girl!" said the General. "You shall go. And may 
God speed you and protect you on your journey!" 

"He will," murmured the brave girl in a low voice. 

The General then ordered a swift, well-trained and gentle 
horse to be saddled immediately, while he wrote a despatch 
to General Sumter. After writing it he read it over to her 
until she had completely memorized it, so that should she be 
compelled to destroy it she would still be able to communicate 
it verbally. He then gave her minute directions in regard to 
her journey, and how she should act if so unfortunate as to 
fall into the hands of the enemy. 

"And now, my good girl," he said with deep emotion, "I 
commit to your care this important message. Everything 
depends on its delivery. Here is money for your journey." 

But she refused his purse, saying that she had enough for 
her wants and his necessities were greater than hers. 

Just at this time the officer re-entered the tent and said 
that the horse was ready. 

"And so am I," said Emily, as she stepped out into the 
open air. 

A whisper of what was going on had already circulated all 
through the camp, and many officers and men had gathered 
before the tent to see the brave girl as she came out to start 
upon her perilous journey. She showed no fear as she placed 
her foot upon the hand of an officer and sprang into the 
saddle. Her face was very calm; her eyes were slightly 
raised, and her whole bearing was as that of one who knew 
no fear — not reckless, but fearless. 

General Greene stood near, and when she was firmly seated 
and had grasped the bridle reins, he extended his hand and 
taking one of hers he said, while he held it tightly: 

"God speed you on your journey, and may heaven and 
your country reward you." 

Then, impelled by sudden emotion, he pressed the fair hand 
to his lips, and turning sought the seclusion of his tent. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEET. 465 

As he did so the ofl&cer, who, until now, had continued to 
hold the bridle, let go his hold, and Emily, touching the 
reins, spoke to the horse and he instantly darted away, bearing 
the fair young courier from the camp rapidly in a south- 
westerly direction. No wild shout of admiration went up from 
officers or men. But tears fell silently from the eyes of 
many, who were deeply touched by the heroic act of the 
brave girl. 

About five miles from General Greene's camp lived one of 
the most active and bitter tories in all South Carolina. His 
name was Loire or Lowry. Two of his sons were in the 
British army at Ninety-Six (by the way, the British army at 
Ninety- Six was composed altogether of tories, 300 from New 
York and 200 from South Carolina; the Colonel commanding, 
Cruger, was a New Yorker;), and he, himself, had fought 
against the Americans at Camden. Since Greene had camped 
in the neighborhood, this man had had his spies continually 
in the vicinity to pick up whatever information might be of 
use to the British. 

About four hours after Emily's departure on her mission., 
one of these spies rode up to Lowry's house. 

"What news?" he asked, knowing from the man's face that 
he had something to tell. 

"The rebel Greene has found a messenger to carry a 
despatch to Sumter?" 

"Are you sure?" 

"Yes, and she has been gone some four or five hours." 

"She, you say?" 

"Yes, she; that girl of Geiger's went to the camp this 
morning and volunteered her services." 

"The devil she did!" 

And the man swore by all the gods of the infernal regions 
that she should never reach the camp of Sumter. 

"But she has the swiftest horse in Greene's camp," said 
the man, "and unless she is pursued right away she will sooe 
be out of reach." 

"Take Vulcan," said Lowry," and if you kill him you must 
catch the huzzy between this and Morgan's Range." 

"She has nearly five hours the start," said the man. 

"But you must make two miles to her one." 

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466 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

"Even then she will be ahead of the Range before I can 
get there.'' 

"In that case you must start Bill Mink after her with a 
fresh horse." 

With these instructions and a hastily written letter to Mink, 
the man started in pursuit. He was mounted on a large 
strong horse, who bore his rider swiftly away. 

In the meantime, Emily, who was no stranger to the way 
she had to go, having already been over the route more than 
once, struck boldly into the dense forest through which she 
had to go. Her way was only a bridle path; but wide, open 
roads were rare in those days in that part of the country. 
Borne up by intense enthusiasm for the success of her en- 
terprise, she felt no fear. Nothing of special moment hap- 
pened to her during her first day's journey. In passing 
Morgan's Range, which she did about four o'clock in the af- 
ternoon, she swept around it in a wide circle, as she knew 
that some of the worst tories in the whole country lived in 
that neighborhood. She was successful in passing the place 
unobserved, and again entered the road upon which her direct 
course lay. She was aiming to cross the Saluda at Kennerly's 
Ferry, not far above its junction with the Broad, then cross 
the Congaree at Friday's Ferry, just below the junction of the 
two rivers, and then as direct as possible to Sumter on the 
Wateree. Her horse by this time was very weary, but bore 
up at the word of his rider as if he understood the importance 
of her mission. As day declined and the shadows of evening 
began to grow more and more dense, the house at which she 
expected to stop for the night was still many miles distant. 
And she, fearing that she might become lost in the darkness, 
thought it better to stop at the first farm house she might 
come across. As soon as she saw one she rode up to the 
dooi*, when she was met by a man who accosted her kindly, 
and asked her where she was from and how far she was 
going. 

"I did hope," said Emily, "to reach Elwood's to-night. 
How far is it?" 

"Over ten miles," said the man, "and the road bad and 
lonely. You'd better get down and stay with us all night." 

"If you will let me," she said, "I will be very glad." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 407 

She then dismounted, and while the man led her horse to 
the stable his wife invited her into the house. 

"Have you coiue far?" she asked, as she untied Emily's 
bonnet and looked earnestly into her face. 

Emily did not know the people she was with, whether 
friends or foes, and she gave a brief, evasive answer. 

"Your horse looked very tired; you must have ridden a 
long distance." 

"I rode fast," said Emily, "and still I have failed to reach 
the place I started for this morning." 

"It is hardly safe for a young girl like you to take such a 
long journey alone in these times." 

"I am not afraid," said Emily; "no one will hurt me." 
"I am not so certain of that, child; it is only a day or 
two since Greene was in full retreat, and it may be that some 
of his ragamuffins are about, whom it would not be safe to 
meet." 

As the woman said this a chill passed over Emily, for she 
knew from her words and manner that she was not a friend 
to the whig cause. She made no reply. 
"What is your name?" said the woman. 

Emily, hoping that the woman knew nothing about her 
father, replied at once: "Geiger." 

"Not John Geiger's daughter!" exclaimed the woman. 
"Yes," said Emily with a smile. 

Just at this time the woman's husband came in. "Would 
you believe it," she said, turning to her husband, "that this 
is the daughter of John Geiger, of whom we have so often 
heard?" 

"Well," he said "if she were the daughter of my worst 
enemy she should have food and shelter to-night. No wonder 
your horse is tired," he said to Emily, "if you have ridden 
from home to-day. And no doubt you are hungry; so, wife, 
let us have supper." 

No other pointed questions were asked during the meal, and 
after supper as Emily was very tired she asked to be shown 
to her room for the night. She felt that her position was 
very precarious. Her father was known as an active whig, 
and she was in the house of a tory who might suspect he 
mission and prevent its successful conclusion. After retiring 



408 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

she mused a long time as to what was best for her to do in 
case her host should try to detain her. But after awhile 
overwearied nature could bear no more and she sank into a 
deep sleej). In about two hours she woke with a start from 
hearing the sound of a horse's feet dashing rapidly up to the 
house. As the horse was reined up and halted before the 
door, a voice called out in a familiar way to the farmer who 
had just opened it: 

"Hallo, Preston, have you seen anything of a stray young 
girl in these parts?" 

"Bill Mink," replied the farmer, "what in the world brings 
you here at this time of night?" 

"A fool's errand, maybe, but I received a message from 
Lowry about an hour ago, that Geiger's daughter had gone 
with a despatch from Greene to Sumter; that she had been 
gone some hours, and that I must overhaul her at the risk of 
everything." 

"It isn't possible!" exclaimed Preston's wife. 

"It is, though; and it strikes me that she must be a con- 
founded clever girl." 

"It strikes me so too," said Preston. "But I rather think 
you will be on a fool's errand, sure enough, if you go any 
further to-night." 

"What! have you seen anything of the jade?" asked Mink. 

"Perhaps I have," said Preston in a lower tone. 

"Oh, ho!" said Mink, ".so 1 am on the right track: «he is 
here." 

"I did not say so," said Preston. 

"No matter; all right," said Mink, and he hitched his horse 
and went in like an old acquaintance. 

The weather being very warm the window of Emily's room 
was open and she had heard every word that passed. And 
for a long time after they went into the house slie heard the 
murmur of voices. Then some one went out and the horse 
was led round to the stable; so that it was clearly the inten- 
tion of Bill Mink to stay all night and make the capture in 
the morning. The brave girl could now think of nothing but 
the possibility of making her escape. She lay quiet for an 
hour or more until all had retired to rest and everything was 
still in the house, and she could hear nothing exoe^jt the 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 469 

loud breathing of tho men in their sleep. Rising from her 
bed and dressing herself in haste she looked out through the 
window and saw the rising moon shining feebly through the 
trees. Wliile thus looking forth and doubtinw whether she 
should venture into the silent night, a large watch-dog came 
up, and, placing his great head upon the window sill, looked 
into her face. She patted his head and the dog wagged his 
tail as though much pleased. She hesitated no longer but 
jumped from the window, and, the dog going with her, she 
went quietly to the stable. At the stable it was some time 
before she could find her own horse, saddle and bridle. At 
length she succeeded, and bridling and saddling hor horse 
she led him from the stable. She made a wide circuit around 
the house so as to gain the road at some distance away. The 
dog had gone with her all this time, as if he was guarding 
her — and I do not doubt that he was — but when she mounted 
and rode away he stood still and watched her until she was 
out of sight and then returned to the house. 

The danger thus happily escaped made Emily almost forget 
the solitude of her situation. The joy she felt left scarcely 
any room for fear. Ere day broke she reached the house of 
that friend where slie had intended to pass the night. To 
him she told the nature of her journey and of the narrow 
escape she had just made. A meal was quickly prepared, a 
fresh and strong horse was provided, and before the sun rose 
she was sweeping away on her journey. A letter from this 
friend to another twenty miles further on procured her another 
horse. 

More than two-thirds of the distance she had to go was 
safely passed before the sun set on the evening of the second 
day of her journey, and she was riding along pondering as to 
where she should pass the night. She had crossed the Saluda 
and was on her way to Friday's Ferry on the Congaree. 
Very soon the question as to where she should stop for the 
night was settled for her without any will of her own. Sud- 
denly three men in the British uniform came into view 
directly in front of her. To turn back would be of no use, 
so she rode on, trying to be brave. On coming up to her 
the soldiers spoke to her in a rude and familiar manner. 

She did not reply, but tried to pass on, when one of them 



470 ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 

caught hold of the horse's bridle. Escape, being hopeless, 
Emily replied to their questions as best she could. 

Not satisfied •with her answers, they told her she must go 
before Lord Rawdon (whose camp was only about a mile dis- 
tant), as it was clear that she was a rebel, and probably a spy. 
When before his lordship, she was asked where she was from, 
where she was going, and what was the object of her journey. 
She would not tell a direct falsehood, and her answers, being 
evasive, created strong suspicions in Lord Rawdon's mind 
against her. 

"We'll find a way to get at the truth," he at length exclaimed, 
impatiently. "Take her over to my quarters at the farm-house, 
and see that she don't escape you." 

The ofiicer to whom this command was given removed Emily 
under guard to a house near by, and locked her up in one of 
the upper rooms. 

Aa soon as she was left alone she took the despatch from 
her pocket and was about to throw it out through the window, 
but she immediately thought that would not do. Hide it she 
could not, as she felt sure that the room would be searched, 
and herself also. Delay she could not. So she immediately 
tore off a piece and ate it. Another and another piece followed. 
But before she could dispose of the whole of it in this way 
the door was opened and a woman entered. Turning quietly 
her back to the woman, she put the balance in lier mouth, 
and, covering her face with her hands, as if she were weeping 
bitterly, she remained in that position until it was all gone_ 
Then turning to the woman, who had several times spoken to 
her, she asked by whose authority she was shut up in that 
room. 

"By the authority of Lord Rawdon," replied the woman. 
"I think he might find work more befitting his noble lord- 
ship," said Emily, "than locking up poor girls who are peace- 
ably traveling the highway." 

" "You'd better not be saucy," said the woman; "your tongue 
may get you into trouble. You are suspected of bearing a mes- 
sage from Greene to Sumter, and it is my business to search 
you, to see if I can find it." 

"You must think General Greene poorly off for men"- 
"No matter what I think. Miss Pert. You are suspected, 
and I must search you." 



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471 



"You can do so," said Emily; "but I think you might be 
better employed." 

The search was made, but brought nothing to light that 
could implicate Emily as being a messenger of the rebel gen- 
eral. The search being over, the woman went out, leaving 
Emily alone in the darkness, where she remained for nearly 
half an hour undisturbed. She then heard steps approaching. 
The door was unlocked and opened, and a soldier appeared, 
and just behind him a woman holding a light. 

"Lord Rawdon wishes to see you," said the man. 

Emily followed in silence. She was conducted to a room 
below, where she found Lord Rawdon and several other officers 
at a table. After several questions, in answering which she 
succeeded in allaying his suspicions, he said to her: 

"As it is now night, you do not think of proceeding on your 
journey ?" 

After a moment's reflection, Emily said: "If your Lordship 
do not object, I would like to go back a little distance. I 
have friends living on the road not far from camp." 

"How far?" 

"About six miles from here." 

"Very well; you shall go back, and I will send an escort 
with you for your protection." 

She thanked him for the offer of the escort. 

Her object in going back was to stop at the house of a friend 
there, and when she resumed her journey she purposed mak- 
ing a wide sweep around the camp, and then, beyond it, strike 
the direct road to meet General Sumter on the Wateree. The 
danger most dreaded now was the man Mink, whom she had 
happily esca2:)ed, but who, she felt certain, was not far from 
Rawdon's camp. 

In abont an hour she found herself safely housed at the 
home of her father's friend. Fortunately, the escort had left 
her before she met any of the family. Aboiit a half hour after 
her arrival a member of the family came in and said that just 
a short while before he had passed Mink, who was riding at 
full speed towards Rawdon's encampment. 

"Then, I must go at once," said Emily, starting to her feet. 
"If I remain here the balance of the night I cannot hope to 
reach Sumter with General Greene's despatch; for in less than 



472 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 

an hour, if I stay, I shall bo arrested and carried to Eawdon's 
camp. Let me go, and I will trust heaven for my safety." 

After a hurried talk it was decided that she should go on, 
but not alone. A fresh horse and a guide were provided, and 
in a few minutes they were galloping in a direction away from 
the British camp. A few miles brought them to a road which 
struck off towards the point on the Wateree that she was desir- 
ous to reach. Of this road Emily had not known. But her 
guide was familiar with the country and able to conduct her 
by a safer and shorter route. All night they rode as rapidly 
as the road and the darkness rendered safe, and at daybreak 
they were far from Ijord Rawdon's neighborhood. As the sun 
rose, after giving her accurate and minute directions as to the 
way she was still to go, the guide left her to pursue her jour- 
ney alone. Without stopping to rest herself or her horse, she 
pressed on, though it grew hot and hotter as the sun rose 
towards the zenith. Faint, weary, worn out, and almost sick 
with hunger and excitement, she was urging on her tired horse, 
when, about three o'clock in the afternoon, in passing out from 
a thick wood, she came suddenly upon a file of soldiers, whose 
xmiform she knew to be that of friends. 

"Where will I find General Sumter?" was her first eager 
inquiry. 

"He is camped about a mile fi-om here." 

"Take me to him quickly. I have a message from General 
Greene." 

The excitement by which Emily had been so long sustained 
now died out, and before she came into the presence of Sum- 
ter she was so weak that she could not sit up in the saddle 
without support. She rallied when brought before him, and, 
sustained by rising enthusiasm, delivered, clearly and succinctly, 
her message to the astonished oflficer. In an hour General 
Sumter was on the march to reach the place of junction men- 
tioned in General Greene's despatch. 

Two weeks passed before Emily got back to her father, who 
had been informed, soon after her departure, of what she had 
done. Of his fears during her absence, I need not speak. But 
who can imagine the emotions of love, pride and happiness 
that almost stifled him as he pressed her to his heart once 
more? 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 473 

After the war Emily Geiger was married to a planter in the 
neighborhood named Threwits. Whether she was more than 
once married, I do not know. She lived to a good old age 
and died at Granby. She left children; but of her descend- 
ants at this time I know nothing — not even whether there are 
any now living. But I hope there are some, and that they are 
brave, heroic and true, as ever Emily Geiger was. 



474 ANNALS OF NEWBEEBT. 

VL 
NEWBERRY COUNTY. 

ITS CLIMATE, SOIL, SOCIETIES, SCHOOLS, ETC. 

The writer has passed about thirty years of his life in the 
county and toicn of Newberry, and during all that period he 
has enjoyed almost uninterrupted good health. Our doctors 
tell us, and they so report through the Board of Health, that 
the town of Newberry is healthier than most, and that the 
death rate is less than ia most other cities in the United States. 
And the death rate of the county, notwithstanding the prevalence 
of malarial diseases, I have no doubt is as low as that of the 
town. It is not uncommon to meet with old people hale, hearty 
and active, seventy, eighty, ninety, and even more, years of age. 
I have no doubt that as many aged people can be found in this 
county as in any other in the State, even in those which are 
usually regarded as more salubrious. And surely long life is 
good evidence of the healthfulness of any country. 

The soil is good, and well adapted to the production of all 
the cereals and grasses, and of that great crop, cotton. No better 
lands are to be found in the State, or perhaps anj^where else, 
than on Saluda, Little River, Beaver Dam, Bush River, Enoree 
River, Heller's Creek, and other streams flowing into the Broad 
and Saluda Rivers. The whole county is well watered, streams 
intersecting it in every part, giving moisture and fertility to the 
soil. The county has no mineral wealth, except its granite, 
which is found in great abundance and' of superior quality. 
From the quarry a few miles north of the town many tons have 
been shipped to Augusta, Georgia, for the erection of certain 
public buildings. I saw one block on a wagon, which, I was told, 
weighed about live thousand pounds. Trap rocks show them- 
selves in various places, especially southward of the town, the 
decomposition of which always prodvices soils of the best qual- 
ity. It is true, though, that there are some poor lands in the 
county — it would be strange were there not — but the natural 
poverty of the soil in such places is more than made up for by 
the intelligence, industry and general thriftiness of the people 
who live in those sections. The Stoney Battery section is rocky 
and rough, but those who cultivate those rough hills reap from 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 475 

them abundant harvests and are as properous as any people 
in the county. 

The climate is mild and genial, the thermometer very Sel- 
dom indicating a degree of heat above 98 in the shade, and as 
seldom as low as ten degrees above zero; though I have seen 
it below zero twice since 1870. I have had the same thermom- 
eter for forty years, and once, on the 3d of August, 1804, the 
mercury went up to 102 degrees, the highest I have ever seen 
it. The greatest fall I have ever known was forty degrees in 
twenty-four hours. Violent winds and storms are very rare. 
Upon the whole, taking the county of Newberry with all its 
advantages of soil, climate and salubrity of air, I consider that, 
it will compare favorably with any part of the world. 

The people are generally God-fearing and religious, the Lu- 
theran Church being the strongest in the county. About thirty 
schools for white children are kept going for as many as eight 
months of the vear, and also a number of colored schools 
although the Free School funds are enough to run them only 
three and a half or four months. In the town of Newberry 
the College, the Graded Schools, and other and smaller schools 
for white children, are kept open the full scholastic period, 
nine months in the year — all well supported and in a flour- 
ishing condition. The Hoge School for colored children has. 
been made a part of the Graded School system, and is well 
equipped with teaehers and is kept open the full scholastic 
year. The town is growing more rapidly continually as it grows 
older. Skilled workmen find constant employment in erecting 
new dwelling houses for the rapidly increasing population. As 
a rule, the churches are well attended, and there is as little 
desecration of the Sabbath as in any town of its size in the 
United States. 

Prosperity is also quite a flourishing town, about eight miles 
below Newberry, on the Greenville and Columbia Railroad. 
The population is about one thousand — perhaps not quite so 
many — with a large High School, with over one hundred pupils 
in attendance. This school is for children and youth of both 
sexes. There are four churches in the town, Lutheran, Meth- 
odist, Baptist and Associate Reformed, the latter one of the 
oldest churches in the county, originally a mile below the town,, 
and from which it takes the name Prosperity. A new edifice 



476 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

for this Church was erected withia the town and dedicated in 
1890. I believe the Lutherans predominate here, as indeed 
they do in the county at large, but with quite a respectable 
sprinkling of other churches and denominations — and also of 
sinners for all to work upon. 

Helena was originally entirely a railroad town, but after the 
removal of the workshops it wholly changed its character. There 
is no longer the clang of machinery nor the noisy hum and 
stir of workmen moving about, nor the smoke rising from the 
tall chimneys of the shops. But still it is a very thrifty though 
•quiet town, with good schools, both white and colored. There 
are two houses of worship. The one for the whites is known 
as the Union Church; is open to Christians of all denominations, 
and divine services are frequently held, though I believe there 
is no organized church in the house, the professing Christians 
there all holding their membership at Newberry. The Sunday 
school, which is also "Union," is well attended every Sabbath 
afternoon. The Church for colored people is Methodist, and 
also has its Sunday school. 

While on the subject of schools in the county and town 
of Newberry, it may not be amiss to state that by an Act 
of the Legislature, passed December 17, 1807, the trustees 
of Newberry Academy were authorized to raise a sum of 
jnoney, not exceeding three thousand dollars nett, by lottery. 

By the same Act a religious congregation of Beaufort was 
authorized to raise, in the same manner, as much as thirty- 
eight hundred dollars. This congregation is styled in the 
Act an "Independent Religious Congregation," so it does not 
:appear with what denomination of Christians it was con- 
nected — I suppose with none. William Smith was President 
-of the Senate, and Joseph Alston Speaker of the House of 
Representatives when these Acts were passed. 

And again on the 13th of December. 1817, just ten years 
after the passage of the first, another Act was passed by 
the Legislature, empowering the trustees of Newberry Acad- 
emy to raise the sum of five thousand dollars nett, by 
lottery, for the benefit of the school. James B. Pringle, 
President of the Senate; Tho.^. Bennett, Speaker of the 
,House. 

The names of the trustees are inserted in both Acts, but 
it is not necessary to give them here. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 47T 

These facts are given to show the great change that has; 
taken place in the feelings of the people since that day- 
Then lotteries were not regarded as immoral or wrong; now 
they are looked upon as mere gambling institutions, wrong 
altogether in their tendencies and results. The trustees of' 
the academy at those dates were the most prominent and 
influential men of Newberry, some of whom in after years 
became distinguished public men. The State of Georgia, 
disposed of part of its public domain — lands acquired from 
the Cherokee Indians (among the best in the State) — m a 
similar manner, by lottery for educational purposes, by au- 
thority of the Legislature. This fact Mr. Stephens would not 
permit me to insert in his School History of the United States, 
thinking it best that such things should be permitted to drop 
out of histoiy and be forgotten. I think otherwise. History 
is said to be Philosopy teaching by example, and if we suppress 
and ignore the facts and examples, looking only at results, the 
lesson is not, and cannot be, learned properly. If our ancestors 
and forerunners here did wrong we should know wherein, so 
that we and succeeding generations may be able to avoid sim- 
ilar errors and mistakes in life. 

The origin of the name of the County of Newberry is 
unknown. Judge O'Neall was unable to trace it and gives 
a fanciful story to account for it. Mills in his Statistics 
is entirely silent, though he gives the origin of the names 
of some counties. Ramsay in his history of South Carolina 
says nothing on this point. All these historians leave us 
in the dark, so that now we can only conjecture. There 
is a city in England bearing the name of Newbury, near 
which Cromwell defeated the Royalists during the civil wars- 
of his time, but there is no place in that country with the 
same form of spelling that we use. There are several Post 
towns in the United States, five I think, with the spelling 
as we have it. And there is a family now living in this 
State, if I mistake not, bearing the name of Newberry, but 
we have never had one in this county, as far as I have 
been able to learn. Nor is there any tradition that would 
lead us to suppose that our town and county were called 
after a man or family bearing that name. 

In the Act of March 12, 17S5^ dividing the State into- 



478 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

smaller districts, those before in use having been found 
entirely too large, in the part relating to this county we 
find these words: "One other county beginning at the 
Island Ford on Saluda River, thence along the old road 
to Odell's Ford on Enoree River, thence down Enoree to 
Anderson's Ford, thence along the road to Hill's Ford on 
Tyger River, thence down Broad River to a point theron 
eight miles below the district line, thence to the mouth of 
Bear Creek, thence up Saluda to the beginning, and known 
by the name of 'Newbury." I quote from the Public Laws 
of South Carolina, published in 1790. Five days after the 
passage of the above Act, that is to say, on the 17th of 
March, 1785, in the Act establishing County Courts in the 
various new counties of the State, the name is spelled as 
we have it now, 'Sewberry. The same change occurs in the 
spelling of the word Shrewsbury. In the Act of March 12, 
1785, the word is spelt with a u, and in that of March 
17, five days later, it is Shrewsberry. In all Acts relating 
to our town and county since 1785 the word Newberry is 
spelled just as we spell it now. 

Judge O'Neall in his Annals says that the present form 
of spelling it is the correct one. But from all the infor- 
mation I can gather, and I have tried to investigate the 
subject carefully and thoroughly, it was once almost, if not 
quite, a matter of indifPerence which form was used. The 
town in England, near which one of Cromwell's victories 
was gained, is now spelled Newbury, but I see that Evelyn 
in his Diary spells it Newberry. It seems to be almost a 
matter of indiiference with him whether he uses an e or 
a ti, for I see that he spells Cornbury with an e, Corn- 
bery. And so with other words of a similar form. In an 
old history which I have just been looking through, Win- 
terbotham's America, when the word Newberry first occurs 
it is spelt with a u, and then two or three pages further 
on it changes to the present form. The same change occurs 
in Ramsay's. Is not "bury" the same as "burg" or "burgh?" 
It is according to Webster, and is old English or Anglo- 
Saxon. This being the case it is very clear that Newbury 
is the proper form and that "berry" is a corruption and 
counterfeit. But it is the form established by custom and 
by law and must so remain. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 479 

And now a few facts in regard to the early history of 
our town, which I think I have not stated before, nor do 
I remember that they were mentioned in the first part of 
this work. 

The first County Court ever held here was held in a 
barn which was afterwards moved to the place now owned 
(1892) by Mr. R. H. Wright, where it still stands. And 
the hotel for the entertainment of the Judge and lawyers, 
and other gentlemen attending court, was a country tavern, 
or house of entertainment for the travelling public, situated 
about a mile and a half from where the Court House now 
stands, on the road leading to Lorick's, Yoving's, Huiett's, 
Bouknight's, now Herbert's Ferry on the Saluda, and near 
a strong, bold spring which gushes out of the earth at 
the foot of the hill on the right of the road as you go 
south. Who kept the hotel at that time I have never 
learned, and what jolly times the guests had, there is 
no one to relate. The house disappeared long ago; the 
landlord and his guests are all dead, but the spring is 
there yet. The naiad that guards it may be able to tell 
something. 



The Massacre at Hayes' Station. 

Near the close of the year, in October, 1781, while the Am- 
erican army was near Charlestown, and there were very few, 
if any, Whigs embodied and in arms in the upper part of the 
State, a band of Tories, actuated seemingly by a desire to 
take one last and ferocious taste of revenge, carried fire and 
sword into the Whig settlements of Ninety-Six district. They 
were led by Major William Cunningham, known always as 
Bloody Bill. His watchwords on this expedition seemed to be 
plunder, burn and murder. In the dead of night, in the hours 
of sleep and apparent security, they entered the solitary farm 
houses and sacrificed to their revenge the heads of families 
and all obnoxious persons. Their cruelties compelled parties 
to arm and band together in self-defence. A Captain William 
Turner, in the upper part of what is now Newberry Co .uty. 



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with twenty men acting thus in self-defence, took position in a 
thick-walled house and defended themselves until their ammu- 
nition was very nearly expended, when they surrendered upon 
the solemn assurance of Cunningham that they should be treated 
as prisoners of war. But after the surrender the whole party 
were immediately put to death. The same band of Tories soon 
afterwards burned the house of John Caldwell and killed him. 
His brother William, the father of John Caldwell the great 
lawyer of Newberry, and of the Hon. P. C. Caldwell, fortun- 
ately escaped, and endeavored to bear the news of the approach 
of Cunningham to Colonel Joseph Hayes, but was unable to 
reach the station in time. The attack was made ; the house 
in which Colonel Hayes and his company had taken shelter 
was set on tire, and they were compelled to surrender. But 
they did not surrender until they had received the solemn 
assurance of Cunningham that they should be treated in all 
respects as prisoners of war. Colonel Hayes and Captain Dan- 
iel Williams were instantly hanged. But the pole breaking. 
Major William Cunningham cut them to pieces with his own 
sword. Then turning upon the others, he continued to hack 
and hew and kill until he was exhausted and his arm could 
scarcely raise the sword. He then told his men to kill whom- 
soever they chose ; which they did. Only two had fallen in 
action, and fourteen were deliberately cut to pieces after the 
surrender. The following are their names and rank : Colonel 
Joseph Hayes, Captain Daniel Williams, Lieutenant Christo- 
pher Hardy, Lieutenant John Niel, Clement Hancock, Joseph 
Williams, Joseph Irby, Sr., Joseph Irby, Jr., John Milven, 
James Ferris, John Cook, Greaf Irby, Benjamin Goodman, 
Yancy Saxon. 

Hayes' Station is in Laurens County, but I thought it well 
to insert this account in these Annals, as some patriotic New- 
berrians were sufferers there. Some years ago a monument 
was erected at the place of the massacre, with the names of 
the slaughtered engraved thereon. The monument still stands, 
though I have been told that the iron railing around it has 
been somewhat mutilated, whether by a bolt of lightning or by 
some vandal, is not known. If any damage has been done by 
any means to the monument or to the railing, it should be 
repaired and the monument made perfect, as at first. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 481 



VII. 

OLD TIMES IN NEWBEERY. 

The Dutch Fork Section, as Seen Through the Eyes of 
Major J. P. Kinard. 

"The great German pioneers of Dutch Fork, in the lower 
part of Newberry, between Saluda River and Enoree River 
up Broad River, from 1800 up to 1833, were two leading 
Germans, Henrj_ Ruff and Capt. Martin Kinard. These 
two Germans were looked up to and obeyed by the balance 
of Germans in Dutch Fork. I will attempt to name the 
German families living about that date: Koon, Folk, Set- 
zler, Sviber, Eichelberger, Epting, ^Yicker, Eidelhoover, Lake, 
Glymph, Wood, Ruff, Dickert, Swittenberg, Counts, Gallman, 
Summer, Hipp, Kinard, Eigners, Heller, Adams, Lane, Cromer, 
Mearos, Aull, Berley, Riser, Chapman, Kibler, King, Bundrick, 
Rikard, Rutherford, Meetze, Alewine, Hentz, Goree, Crooks, 
Henderson, Cannon, Sligh, Eargle, Turnipseed, Bishop, Huey, 
Wadlington, Hatton, Caldwell, Brown, Darby, Ashford, Lyles, 
Miller, Eppes, Boyd, Davidson, Martin, AVerts, Graham. I 
would say from names mentioned there were at least two 
hundred families — for instance: Subers, Kinards, Koons and 
Cromers were very many. 

"Never were more honest and just people on the face of 
th's earth than Germans in those days. I do not suppose 
one of those good Germans is living to-day. 

"William Rutherford was the first man to own a cotton gin 
in the Dutch Fork. AVhen cotton planting was first intro- 
duced in the Dutch Fork, after the land was prepared, the 
seed — the old green seed — was planted by heel and toe, the 
father leading, mother next; then children and negroes, if 
any, following. Had very few negroes in those days, but what 
there were were treated like white children. The seed were 
put in little baskets himg on the left arm; the planter then 
made a dent on the bed with his heel, dropped five or six 
2 S 



482 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

seed in the dent and covered with his toes — distance apart 
measured by the foot. The Dutch were superstitious, the 
seeds had to be covered with the toes or they v/ould not 
come up. 

"Everybody wore home-made clothing ia those days. The 
ffirls had draw-strings in their dresses around the Avaist — had 
no bustles like the present day. 

"After the cotton was made and opened it was gathered in 
the following manner: Of mornings after a heavy dew, or 
after a shower of rain, the open bolls were picked ofP the 
stalks, taken into the house and put on a pile; and then of 
nights all would gather round the pile of bolls and pick out 
the cotton by light of tallow candles, picking off all trash. 
It would take three or four to make one bale of three 
hundred pounds — would join together and take to Billy 
Rutherford's to be ginned. Then in the fall four or five 
neighbors would join teams of five fine bay horses — no mules 
— take six or eight bales of cotton and go to Charleston and 
sell for twenty-five or thirty cents per pound; the father with 
the oldest son going along with enough provisions prepared 
at home by good women to last them during the trip, with 
the best of bread baked in Dutch ovens. They camped out 
at night, sleeping with their feet to the fire, with only the 
sheltering branches of a tree above them, in fair w^eather, 
with the stars glimmering through. It took about sixteen 
days to make the trip, hauling goods back for merchants in 
the county, getting from two to three dollars per hundred for 
haviling. O, what happy and industrious people in those 
days! — raised everything to live on — nobody owed any money 
— -always had plenty of money, but did not take much to do. 
But most of the Germans soon got rich and began to buy 
African negroes that were shipped here from Africa. About 
thirty thousand were annually brought South up to 1812, by 
way of New York, in vessels. 

"The people in Dutch Fork had no doctors in those happy 
days. All diseases were cured by our Dutch doctors by nsing 
for man and beast. Dutch ladies would cure children by nsiug 
— all being done in German. Faith was so great and good 
all would get well. The midwives were the only doctors to 
ladies. Aunt Polly Wicker went far and 'loai'. If people of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 483 

the present day had such faith as Germans had in our Sa- 
viour there Avould be much better times. Germans never 
needed Doctors in Medicine; all lived up to time in those 
days what was allotted for man to live. Had no railroads — 
no fast traveling. Members to Legislature or to Congress had 
to go by private conveyance or by stage. 

"In addition to those names of German families already 
given there were also the following: Houseal, Stoudemire, 
Hope, Swygert, Wessinger, Wilson, Busby, Lorick, Eleazer, 
Dominick, Shealey, Griffith, Bobb, Neel, Perkins, Cureton, 
Moore, MafPett, Bowers, Fulmer, Bedenbaugh, Wise, Hair, 
Leaphart, Reid, Cappleman, Henry, Fellers, Hartman, Singley, 
Wedeman, Baker." 

The compiler of these Annals is bound to think that his 
old friend is mistaken as to the nationality of some of the 
family names mentioned in the foregoing. Some of them were 
certainly Irish, or Scotch, or Scotch-Irish; and one, Griffith, 
was neither German, Dutch, Irish nor Scotch, but Welsh. 
However, their nationality is not a matter of the first impor- 
tance, as they were all kin in having the same honest and 
industrious habits. 

I may add here that, from information received since the 
above was written, it is probable that Martin Riser was the 
first one who owned and used a cotton gin near Pomaria, in 
Newberry County. 

We add here all the data given by Major Kinard: William 
M. Kinai'd, his only son, died 3d of April, 1877, aged 35 
years. At the commencement of the war he had just grad- 
uated in medicine, but volunteered and was elected 1st 
Lieutenant in Company F, 20th Regiment, S. C. V., of which 
J. M. Kinard was Captain, i^-fter Captain Kinard's death, he 
having been killed in the valley of Virginia, Wm. M. Kinard 
was elected Captain and served in that capacity until the 
close of the wai\ 



Old Times as Seen Thkouoh the Eyes of Dr. P. B. Ruff. 

'"There was a log house built twelve miles from the Court 
House on the public road leading to Henderson's Ferry en 
Enoree Rivei". It was built especially for the Rev. Jacob 



484 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

King to preach in. It was called Malone's Meeting Housa 
It was built about eighteen hundred and four or five, and was 
the only house of worship in that section of the county. The 
country was thickly settled, entirely by white people. There 
were very few slaves and they belonged to a few men. Mr. 
King had a large congregation whenever he preached; and, as 
there was no other place of worship to go to, a great many 
would go from ten to twelve miles to Malone's Meeting House 
to hear preaching. A very large majority of the women had 
to walk to the meeting house, and when they were ready to 
start they would tie up their shoes and stockings in a large 
striped cotton handkerchief and go barefoot until they got 
within a hundred yards or so of the meeting house. Then 
they would stop and sit down in a fence corner and put on 
their stockings and shoes, and so, having completed their 
toilet, would go on into the house, take their seats with the 
congregation and give due heed to the preaching of the \Yord. 
After the service was over and the congregation dismissed, 
these women would wait until those on horseback would ixet 
out of sight; they would then pull off their shoes and stock- 
ings, tie them up in the handkerchiefs and walk home barefoot. 

"The women in those days had nothing to wear to meeting 
but the homespun clothes they made with their own hands. 
The bonnets W'orn were what are now known as sun-bonnets. 

"After awhile a great many of them grew tired of the sun- 
bonnets to wear to meeting and tried to make an improve- 
ment. They spun thread, coarse and slack-twisted, and when 
they had a sufficient quantity they put it in a loom and wove 
it. After taking it out of the loom they carded one side so 
as to raise a fur or nap like that on a fur or silk hat. Some 
dyed the cloth so as to have colored bonnets; others preferred 
them white. When they cut out the cloth for the bonnet, 
they cut it to fit the head like a cap. The front of the bonnet 
extended six or eight inches beyond the face, so that you 
could not see the face of the woman unless you were in front 
of her. 

"There was in those days no black leather, nor blacking 
and brushes to be had, so they had to wear nice yellow shoes 
made of leather of the natural color from the tan vat or 
trough. Their shoes were made to come up just high enough 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 485 

to cover the ankle. The married men who rode horseback to 
meeting would take their wives up behind them and the babies 
in front. When there were not horses enough for the young 
women to ride single, one would take the saddle and one ride 
behind her. Women who had babies would take them to 
meeting and whenever they began to fret or cry they would 
nurse them in the meeting house, and if that did not quiet 
them they would spank them well, if the children were old 
onoiTgh to profit by the infliction. When the mother would 
get home from church she would spread a quilt upon the 
floor for the babe, and it had to kick and cry until she got 
through with preparing dinner, as she had the dinner to cook 
herself and no one to take care of the child. Children did 
not receive the attention that they do now; the mother had 
to work and the child had to lie on the pallet and kick and 
roll and squall until its mother had time to nurse it. Every- 
body had to work, both men and women, in the field. Young 
women would plough and hoe with the men and boys, bare- 
footed and sun-bonnets on, and gloves made of homespun, 
with the one finger of the glove for the thumb. I believe 
they called them mittens. Generally one of the women had 
to lay down her hoe about eleven o'clock to get dinner for 
hcTsclf and the other workers in the field. When dinner was 
ready she would blow the horn for them; they would then 
come in, feed the horses and get their dinner about twelve 
o'clock. About two o'clock they would return to the fields to 
work, and the cook would take her hoe again and work with 
the others until nearly sunset, then go to the house and get 
supper. Whenever she went to the house to get dinner or 
supper and found there was not wood enough already cut 
for the purpose, she did not need to call some one to cut it 
for her, but took the axe and cut it herself. The young 
women were strong, active and healthy. To see them whilst 
at work in the field you would call them very pretty young 
women; and some were called beautiful, with such rosy cheeks 
and coral lips. Notwithstanding they worked in the field in 
the hot sun with sun-bonnets on and mittens on their hands, 
they were as pretty as the women of later date. No doubt 
they were as lovely in the eyes of the young men of that day 
as the girls now are in our eyes, although they could not 



48G ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

dress in muslin, silk, nor even in calico, nor in an\ tiling but 
homespun dresses made with their own deft lingers and in- 
dustrious hands. They had no bustles nor bangs, not even a 
ribbon to tie around their hair to keep it in place, but a plain 
cotton cord or string. But if you could have seen them at 
preaching, dressed so neat and nice in their pretty homespun 
di'esses and new-fashioned fur bonnets of their own make, you 
would scarcely have believed that they over worked in the 
field, not being the least sunburut, neither face nor hands. 
But they rejoiced when they heard that there was calico in 
the stores of Y. J. Harjington and William Pinchback, just 
arrived from Baltimore. The pi ice was eighty seven and a 
half cents per yard, and it was nothing like as handsome as 
the eight and ten cents calico here in the stores now. About 
the time the goods arrived from Baltimore tiiere was a small 
dry-goods and millinery store started, which caused more re- 
joicing, for they could not only get a calico dress but a nice 
straw bonnet trimmed with pretty ribbon. "What a change! 
A nice calico dress and new shoes, and a nice straw bonnet 
trimmed very prettily, to take the place of the homespun dress 
and yellow shoes and homemade fur bonnets. If ever a young 
Avoman was proud of her dress it must have been at that time. 
It was not very long before the meeting house was full of 
calico dresses and nice straw bonnets. It Avas a great surprise 
to the young men; they said the women looked so pretty they 
hardly knew them. But they all fell in love and got married 
in those days just as they do now. 

"When a man wanted his wheat cut he would let his 
neighbors know what day he wanted them to help him, and 
as soon as the day arrived they came with reap -hook in hand 
ready for work. His wife would have two quilts hanging in 
frames to be quilted the same day. When as many of the 
young women as could find room Avould sit around the quilt 
and ply their needles, the other young women would go out 
into the fields and bind the wheat after the reapers. They 
cut the wheat with reap-hooks or sickles; scythes and cradles 
had not yet been heard of. The quilters would always banter 
the reapers for a race, saying that they intended to beat them. 
It put a little more energy into the reapers and they would 
not stop long to rest under the shade tree w^here they kept a 



ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 487 

pail ol water and a l;ottlo of whiskey. \Yhen the work was 
finished the reapers came to the house with the young women, 
making preparations for a dance after they got their dinner. 
Dinner was generally late, but it was good, for they had 
everything on hand to make it good — turkeys, chickens, milk, 
butter, eggs, etc., and good cooks — for all the girls knew how 
to cook. Ah soon as dinner was over they commenced the 
dance and kept it up until twelve o'clock generally. Then 
they would ail leave for home, satisfied and contented with 
the day's work. When a man wanted help to do anything 
that he could not do himself, if he would just let his neigh- 
bors knovv^ it he would soon get plenty of help. 

"That part or section of the county that lay up and down 
Broad liivor. from Enoree River to Lexington County, was 
called the Dutch Fork. It was settled almost entirely by 
Germans. They were honest, truthful and reliable, and had 
great confidence in the honesty and integrity of each other. 
Their confidence was so great that they would lend their 
neighbors money and take no note for it. I will give one 
case as an instance of this neighborly trust: John Rufi^ lost 
two farm horses in the month of February, and he was com- 
pelled to buy tw'o more to fill their places to enable him to 
carry on his farm. There was a drove of horses for sale in 
the neighboi'hood at the time, and he selected two horses that 
suited him for the farm, but not having the money to pay for 
them he sent word to a neighbor that he wanted to see him 
on a little business. The neighbor soon came and John Ruff 
said to him that he needed two horses to fill the places of 
the two ho had lost, but he did not have the money to pay 
for them. His neighbor told him he could let him have the 
two hundred dollars, which was the price of the horses, and 
that he would ^o home and get the money and bring it to 
him right off. In a short time he brought the monej^ John 
Ruff paid for the horses and wrote a note for the two hundred 
dollars after asking when he would want the money. On 
being told 'nest Christmas day in the morning,' he made it 
payable on that day. John Ruff handed his neighbor the 
note, but he would not take it; he said, 'you can keep the 
note better than I can, and then you will know w'hen to pay 
it. I will go to your house on Christmas day in the morning 



488 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

for the money and take an eggnog and breakfast with you.' 
When he came Christmas, John Euff counted interest on the 
note at seven per cent. ; but he would not have any interest, 
only the two hundred dollars. This is not the only case of 
the kind, such was the general kindness and good feeling 
that they had for each other. 

"The Dutch Fork people were very fond of dancing — there 
was no other kind of dances but reel dances. What a great 
time they would have at weddings! As soon as the bride and 
groom were married, which was generally about twelve o'clock, 
then the young folks would walk for the cake hanging up in 
the house, nearly as large as a grindstone, with a gold finger 
ring in its centre. Each young man would take a partner to 
walk for the cake, there being generally about a dozen couples. 
In walking for the cake they would walk around the house, 
and the man who started in front had a walking stick in his 
band, and when he would get around the house to the place 
where he started from he would give it to the man next be- 
hind him, and he to the next when they again came round, 
and so on until they heard the firing of a gun, when he, in 
whose hands the stick then happened to be, won the cake. 
About the firing of the gun, be it known that a man had 
been sent off with a gun charged with powder only, clear out 
of sight, with orders not to shoot in less than half an hour. 
After the firing of the gun, the young lady, the partner of 
the winnor, cut the cake and gave the gold ring to the bride. 
By this time dinner was ready. A long table was set in the 
yard loaded with everything (hat could bo had to make ,a 
good dinner. As soon as dinner was over they commenced 
dancing, and kept it np frequimtly for two or three days. 
They danced the old- fashioned reels. Not only the young 
women and the young men danced, but the married v/omen 
and married men also took part in the amusement. It was 
only the old women who could dance a jig. Two straws were 
crossed on the floor; the fiddler would begin to play a lively, 
quick tune; the old woman would pull up her dress high 
enough to keep it from moving the straws, then dance the jig 
over and between the straws for several minutes withovit 
moving a straw. It was very amusing and really wonderful 
to see how light and nimble, and how fast they could use 
their feet." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERHY. 



480 



Personal Keminiscences of Dr. P. B. Ruff — Written by 

Himself. 

"I studied medicine with Dr. Burr Johnstone in 1828 and 
1829. In November, 1829, I Was making preparations to go 
to Charleston to attend the medical lectures. I had to borrow 
the money, and I asked a man in the county who was lendmg 
money and shaving notes if he would lend me three hundred 
dollars. He said he would if I would give him good security. 
James Fernandis said ho would sign the note as surety. The 
man said he could not give the money then, but would pay 
it to Fernandis in a couple of weeks, and he could send it to 
me by Thomas Pratt, as he was going to Charleston to buy 
goods. I could not wait for the money, and as some wagons 
were about to start to Chai'loston I put the few clothes I had 
in a pair of saddle-bags and went with them. When I got 
to Charleston I stopped at the American Hotel, kept by Lu- 
prey Chisholm, with six dollar.s in my pocket. In about two 
weeks I heard that Thomas Pratt was at Miot's Hotel, and I 
went to see him to receive the promised money from him, 
but he told me that the man who had promised it was unable 
to lend it. I thus found myself in a rather unpleasant fix, at 
the Charleston Hotel with only six dollars. What was I to 
do? It is true that lectures had not yet commenced, but I 
had not money enough to return home by the stage. How- 
ever, there was a former schoolmate by the name of Lewis N. 
Shelton, who was doing a heavy wholesale business near the 
wharf, and I went to see him and told him what a tight place 
I was in. He asked me to take a seat, and he then went to 
his desk, wrote a check on the Charleston Bank for five hun- 
dred dollars and gave it to mo. I said it was more money 
than I wanted — please write a check for three hundred dol- 
lars, as I wanted to make as little do as I could. He said 
to me: 'If it is not enough come and let me know and you 
shall have as much as you need.' I went to the bank, 
handed in the check, received the money and started for the 
hotel. As I passed up King Street I looked into Seigler's 
music store and saw so many nice fiddles hanging that I 
thought I must have one. I began to price them, and some 
I found worth twenty, some thirty and some forty dollars. 



490 



AXNALS OF NEWBERUy. 



After awliilo I saw one 1\ ing down on a shelf, very much 
faded and looking as though it had been used and- had seen 
considerable service. I inquired the price of that one and he 
said he would take ten dollars for it. I then asked bis son 
if he would put strings on it, lis the sound board and let me 
have a bow to try it. lie fixed it up for me and I took it 
into the back end of the store to give it a trial. After trying 
it I gladly gave the ten dollars for it and a new bow. I 
found it better and that I could play much better on it than 
on the one at home. Taking my fiddle I hurried to the hotel, 
went up into my room and commenced playing. As soon as 
Chisholm heard it he ran up to my room, which was right 
over his, and began to dance by himself. He danced a good 
long time, seeming to enjoy it very much, and when he 
stopped he asked me if I had engaged boarding. When I 
told him I had not, but would look for a boarding-house in 
the morning, he said I must not engage board but go i-ound 
and see what the boarding-house keepers would charge me. 
"When I returned and told him that I could get board for 
three dollars per week, he said he would board me for the 
same if I would play for him whenever he wanted to have a 
stag dance. I said that I would play for him anytime soon 
after supper. Ho generally had dances twice a week, some- 
times oftener; and whenever he wished to dance he would ask 
some students into my room and tell them to choose partners 
enough for the reel. I believe the students were as fond of 
the dance as he was. He was so pleased with my performance 
that he told me he had a barrel of Newark cider in his bar- 
room and to go in and take a glass of it free of charge 
whenever I felt like it. He was a noble, kind-hearted man, 
and the students were very much pleased with him — he was 
so jolly and lively. 

"When I was about tv^^elve years old I had what is called 
white swelling just above the knee. I was confined to my bed 
on my back for four months — June, July, August and Septem- 
ber. I suffered a great deal, not only with the disease, but 
also from the heat. I could not move my body nor lie on 
either side. My mother kept the swelling poulticed all the 
time, yet the inflammation was so great that it was exceed- 
ingly painful to the touch. William Kutherford came to see 



ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 491 

me one day and brought a thumb lancet with him. He had 
the poultices all taken off, and I thought he only wanted to 
look at and examine the rising. But before I was aware, or 
could say him nay, he ran the blade of the lancet plumb up 
to the handle into the abscess. You better believe it hurt 
some, but nevertheless the lancing relieved me very much as 
it let off a great deal of pus which had collected in the rising. 
After the operation he made a tent of flax and covered it 
with tallow and pushed it into the opening made by the lancet 
as far as it would go. The tents had to be used and renewed 
three times a day. In t-.vo or three weeks' time I could use 
crutchfs, but the leg was flexed so much that I could not put 
the foot within twelve inches of the ground. Mother was 
afraid that I would be a cripple for life. One day I asked 
her to let me go out where the men were at work clearing 
up a new ground. She said she was afraid they would cut a 
tree down upon me, but I told her I would keep out of the 
way. When I came to the new ground I sat down on a log 
near a pile of brush, and presently some one called to me to 
take care as a lai'ge pine tree was coming towards me. I 
sprang up and ran about twenty yards, fainted and fell. One 
of the men saw me fall, ran to me and put me on his bfck 
and carried me home. When mother saw him coming with 
me on his back, she, very much frightened, came running to 
see if I had been crippled by a falling tree. As soon as she 
came near I stretched out my leg and said: 'I can go with- 
out crutches now.' Had it not been for that fright and 
running from that falling tree, I might have been a cripple 
to this day going upon crutches. 

"When I was about seven or eight years old I went every 
Saturday to Major Hog's store for the Charleston newspaper. 
There was scarcely a man in the neighborhood who took the 
paper, and every Sunday morning after breakfast a dozen or 
more men would come to hear it read; and frequently the 
women would come with them to hear the news. Everything 
in the paper from the first column to the last, advertisements 
and all, had to be read. The people of these days who have 
a constant surfeit of news can little imagine how hungry our 
neighbors became. 

"I transcribe here two cases of hypochondria, which, I think,. 



492 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

have never been recorded in any medical work, though doubt- 
less similar cases have been: 

"Some years ago there was an old lady living a few miles 
out of town who was confined to her bed the greater part of 
the time, complaining very much of her stomach and having 
no appetite for food. She sent for Dr. Waldo, and when he 
came to see her she told him that one hot day, while on the 
way to visit a sick neighbor, and being very thirsty, she 
stopped at a spring by the roadside to drink. She had no 
cup nor gourd with which to dip up the water, and so she 
kneeled down upon her knees to drink from the spring. 
While drinking a spring lizard ran down her throat into her 
stomach, and she had never felt well since. Indeed, she 
says, 'I can feel the lizard moving about in my stomach 
now.' Doctor Waldo told her that he had no medicine with 
him to relieve her of the lizard, but that he would visit her 
again in a day or two, and that he thought he could get the 
animal away with very little trouble. Soon after he went 
home he started a negro boy off on a hunt for a spring 
lizard, telling him to bring it to him alive immediately after 
he caught it. The boy caught a lizard and brought it to him 
as ordered, and he went immediately to see the old lady. 
Keeping the lizard concealed he administered an emetic, r.nd 
as soon as the medicine began to operate quite freely he 
slyly slipped it into the vessel into which the patient was 
discharging the contents of her stomach. As soon as she had 
a little respite from the exercise which the medicine gave her 
she saw the lizard swimming about in the vessel. 'There, 
Doctor,' she says, 'don't you see the spring lizard I told you 
about? Now I will get w^ell." That ended the case, and she 
was soon as well as ever. 

"The other case is equally as strange, perhaps stranger, but 
the cure was not altogether so sudden. The patient in this 
case was of the stronger sex, thoucfh, in his ov/n imairininsrs 
at the time, composed of rather brittle material. 

"Oae night he retired to rest as usual but did not get up 
for several days, and when his wife inquired of him if he was 
sick he replied that he did not feel sick, and then when she 
insisted that he should get up and walk about his reply was 
that if he attempted to walk his legs would break all to 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBEY. 493 

pieces, as they were just as brittle as glass. His wife became 
very uneasy, fearing that he might be going crazy, so she 
sent for the doctor, and when the doctor came he was very 
nearly, or quite, as nonplussed as the wife was and did not 
know what to do, as he could discover no physical ailment. 
He had another physician sent for, and the neighbors, hearing 
that another doctor had been called in, collected in considera- 
ble numbers at his house to hear what the consulting physician 
would say about the case. After a very careful examination 
he declared that he could detect no physical disease, that his 
legs were certainly not glass, and that if there was any disease 
at all it was of the mind, which might be, and perhaps was, 
in a more glassy condition than his legs. The doctor then 
inquired if there was a gig to be had anywhere in the neigh- 
borhood, and when told that there was one he ordered it sent 
for. When it came it was driven close up to the steps of the 
house and the doctor told the men present to take the sick 
man out of bed, wrap him up carefully, put him into the gig 
and give him a ride of half a mile. When they brought him 
back and helped him to bed he said to the man who had 
driven the gig: 'If you had kept me out live minutes longer 
I would have been a dead man.' However, the doctor told 
them to give him a ride the next day of one mile, and the 
next day after a ride of two miles; and when the sick man 
heard, that on the next day after that, they were to ride thre-^ 
miles, he said he would get into the gig himself without help. 
After they returned he did not go to bed, having become 
convinced that his legs had not been converted into glass. 
The cure was complete, and I never heard that he v/as ever 
similarly afflicted afterwards. 

"Whilst Doctor Joseph Warren Waldo lived at Newberry he 
took a trip up North, and while there he bought a bell for 
the market. On the night after the arrival of the bell at 
Newberry he procured a keg of wine and placed it at some 
convenient point; he then made two negro men get a hand- 
spike, swing the bell to it and carry it thus suspended on 
their shoulders. He employed another to ring the bell. In 
this way they marched around the village (it was not called 
a town then). Everybody turned out, and when they made 
the round they would stop at the keg of wine and all take a 



494 AXXALS OF NEWBERRY. 

drink. Then they would start again, and when they made 
the round they would stop and take another drink. And so 
they kept up the serenade until after midnight, and when 
they quit they were all full of wine and the keg was empty." 



From the Recollections of Dr. P. B. Kuff, Written in the 
Summer of 1888. 

''I am now on a visit for a few days in my old schoolboy 
neighhorhood, looking around to see if I can find one man 
whom I knew when going to school here. They are all gone 
to their eternal home. I felt very sad to meet no one who 
seemed to know anything, or very little, about Doctor Reuben 
Flanagan, once the most prominent and intelligent man in 
this section of the county. He had very smart children. His 
son, James Flanagan, who taught the school, was well educated 
and a fine scholar. His daughter, who married Henry Gray, 
was a very intellectual woman, and her three sons, Reuben, 
Henry and John, were all men of superior ability. Reuben 
was eminent as a physician, and Henry was considered to be 
one of the best lawyers in Mississippi, a State that has always 
had lawyers of talent equal to any in the profession elsewhere. 
And now it seems that Dr. Flanagan and his children are all 
forgotten. The lawyer, Henry Gray, mentioned here, was a 
Confederate Major- General during the war between the States. 
Whilst I was going to school here I often visited Dr. Flana- 
gan to hear him talk. It was quite a treat to me, as he was 
so interesting. The father of his son-in-law, Henry Gray, was 
Major Frederick Gray, who married Dr. Geddings' mother. 
He educated his step-son, Eli Geddings, who became one of 
the most eminent physicians and surgeons in the State. Dr. 
Geddings was quite a boy when his mother married. He lived 
with his step-father, at the Gum Spring, a few miles from 
Newberry C. H., until he finished his medical education. I 
believe he was the first graduate from the Medical College at 
Charleston, S. C. After he graduated he commenced the 
practice of medicine at White Hall, in Abbeville County. He 
practiced only two years at that place and then went to 
Charleston and went into copartnership with Dr. Holbrook. 
Reuben Gray and m^'self were private pupils in medicine 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 495 

under Dr. Geddings. He was very kind and did a great deal 
for me without charge. He was a kind and good hearted man. 
On one occasion whilst Reuben Gray and myself were under- 
going an examination by Dr. Geddings, there stepped into the 
office the Rev. Jacob King, a Baptist preacher from Newberry 
whom Dr. Geddings had known during all the time he had 
lived with his step-father, Gray. They had lived not more 
than three miles apai't. Mr. King was dressed, when he came 
into the office, in ordinary homespun and his hat was nearly 
worn out. Dr. Geddings rose up from his chair and shook 
hands with him heartily for several minutes. He stopped the 
examination and took Mr. King to his boarding-house, which 
he made his home for three or four days. He also took him 
to a ready-made clothing store, and gave him a fine suit of 
black broadcloth, a nice hat, a good pair of shoes, and also 
some money; but how much of the latter I do not know. 

"I do not think that such a man as Dr. Flanagan should 
be entirely forgotten or his name buried in oblivion." 

"Mr. Neddy Finch, as he was called, was the founder of 
Mount Bethel Academy. He boarded many of the students. 
His house was called the preachers' home, and the first 
Methodist Conference was held in his house. One of his 
daughters married Doctor Adams, and after his death she 
married Doctor Atwood. Another daughter married Mr. Foster. 
His son. Doctor Finch, went to Columbia to witness the inau- 
guration of Drayton for Governor and Major Frederick Nance 
for Lieutenant-Governor. Dr. Finch was riding in a sulky, 
and soon after he started for home his horse became frightened 
in Butcher Town and ran away. The Doctor attempted to 
jump out, but his foot got caught between the shaft and foot- 
board, and being firmly held in this position ho was dashed 
against the ground and killed." 

Anecdote of Jonathan Davenport and the Lijibless Woman. 

"Some years ago, bnt the year not remembered, a man 
brought a woman to Newberry — a well-developed body she 
had, but was entirely lim!)lof.s. She talked well and was quite 
intelligent. She came from Buncombe County, I.orth Caro- 



496 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



lina. The people here sympathized very greatly and gave her 
a good deal of money. I happened to be in the room in the 
hotel where she was staying when Jonathan Davenport came 
in to see her. He walked right up to her and began to talk 
to her, and soon the tears began to pour out of his eyes. 
He placed a ten dollar bill on her breast, bade her good-bye, 
and left her with the tears riinning down his face. 

"This woman was carried about in a chair made expressly 
for her. She appeared to have plenty of life, and she would 
talk and laugh with the women. She said her appetite was 
good and that she rested Avell at night. If she had not been 
limbless I think she would have weighed as much as a hun- 
dred and forty pounds." 

John Young and the Ghost. 

"The young men in. the town hearing that the dam at Men- 
denhall's Mill had broken down and that it would be a good 
time to seine the ford, procured a one-horse wagon, took the 
seine, their dinner and a good supply of whiskey, as it was 
sujiposed to be absolutely necessary to drink i)retty freely 
while they were in the water. 

"It happened that John Young, one of the men who dragged 
the seine, drank too much and had to stop somewhere on the 
road and take a nap of sleep in order to get sober enough to 
go home. He went into the Quaker Meeting House as the 
most convenient place, lay down on a bench, soon fell asleep 
and slept until about two hours in the night. When he 
aw^oke he heard a very mournful groaning under the floor 
beneath him. It frightened him very much, as he thought it 
must be a ghost, there being a large graveyard near by and 
the place having the reputation of being sometimes haunted 
by mysterious beings. He hunted for his hat, and as soon as 
he found it he started for home and ran as fast as he could 
until he came to the villag'^, the distance being about four 
miles. He told several persons that it was a ghost that had 
disturbed him. However, the explanation of the matter soon 
came. The same day a man by the name of Dickerd had 
been in the village and had managed to take rather more 
than was eood for him. He started for home about dark in 




p. B. Ruff. 

Jthii T. I'etersoii 



CONTRIBl'TOKS TO "THE ANNALS." 



ANNALS OF NEWEEERY. 497 

the evening. He bad to pass the Quaker Meeting House on 
his way, and by the time he got to that point he was so far 
gone that he was not able to go any further, aind lying down 
he crawled lander the house, as it happened, right under the 
position occupied by John Young, who was on a bench in the 
house. It thus appears that Dickerd, all unconsciously, played 
ghost." 

The First Church in Newberry Village. 
""There was no church in the village of Xewberry until the 
year 1832. It seems that the people were satisfied and con 
tented to continue without a church and to travel the broad 
road to misery and torment until Preacher Hodges, a Baptist 
preacher, commenced a protracted meeting in the old Academy 
Grove, in the year 1830 or 1831. He was assisted by Worth- 
ington, Childs, and a preacher from Fairfield, whose name I 
have forgotten, and Preacher Presley, who lived in the village. 
It was a great meeting, with a large congregation all the time 
for two or three weeks. After the meeting had continued a 
few days it seemed that a great change came over the people 
very suddenly. By the grace of God they left the broad rod- 
and were ready now to walk in the narrow way that leadstoa 
happiness in the upper and better world. Fifty or more por- 
fessed to be converted and joined the church, the most of 
them the Baptist Church. They were ready and willing now 
to build a house of worship. That of the Baptists was built 
in the year 1832, the Methodists in the following year. If 
God had not sent Preacher Hodges here to wake up the people, 
when would a church have been built? The old men and 
their wives were the first to join — they joined the Baptist 
Church. Previous to this time there were about four or five 
in the village who were professors of religion and members of 
some church. The only churches accessible, that is the nearest, 
were those at Head Spring, Cannon's Creek and Prosperity." 

The Crating Club. 

"The exact date of the existence of this club I do not now 
remember, but it was formed by Alexander Bartholomew, com- 
monly called Big Andy, a very large and powerful man physi- 
2 K 



49S AXXALS OF NEWBERRY. 

cally. The chib consisted of five or six members. In time of 
court, as on saleday in the evening, after freely imbibing 
mean whiskey all day, probably some of Sterritt's, some men 
would be sure to become quarrelsome and want to figlit. As 
soon as the fan would begin Big Andy would 'Hello Crate'.' 
as loud as he could bawl; he would be answered by several 
of the club in different directions. Then there would be a 
great stir in hunting horses, and if any one of the rowdy and 
turbulent ones remained he was sure to go under the crate- 
This club did a great deal of good. It stopped many men 
from lighting, and made many go home to their families 
before they got too drunk. It was no use to resist; Andy 
could handle any of them as easily as he could a child. Out 
in the country, not far away, there lived a man named Dick 
Ayres, a desperate fellow, and when he came to town he 
would, by his violence in throwing rocks and brickbats at 
everybody passing along the streets, make the merchants close 
their doors, until Mr. Carwile would call for Big Andy to take 
Dick Ayres to jail. Dick would try to resist, but Andy would 
take him by the seat of his pants Avith one hand, and with 
the other applied to the back of the neck would throw him 
over his shoulder, walk to the jail and put him in, where he 
was kept until he became perfectly sober. Dick was fond of 
lighting and he would very often try to get up a row by 
pushing men about and cursing them, and most men wei-e 
afraid of him, as he was very large, weighing as much as one 
hundred and eighty poiinds. But his frolics always ended in 
his being put in jail, as Big Andy was too much for him, 
and whenever his boisterousness became entirely unbearable 
Mr. Carwile, who was then Sheriff, would call for Big Andy, 
and Dick's fun resulted in his being locked up in jail." 

Early Cotton. 
'■Silas Wood, who once had a store Avliere Frederick Glyraph 
now (1SS8) lives, gave a barbecue on the fourth day of July. 
A great many people attended, one of whom was \Yilliam 
Rutherford, who showed the crowd of men a vest he was then 
wearing made from cotton grown that same year. He opened 
the immature bolls with the fingers, pulled the cotton out and 
put it in the sun to dry. It was then finger-picked, carded 
and spun, and woven and made into the vest." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 490 

A Surgical Operation. 
"There once lived in Newberry County a lar^je man Vjy the 
fiame of John Hancy, son of Maximilian Haney, who was a 
littlf too fond of whiskey. He had a large wen on his back, 
and ho was very much troubled about it, as it continued to 
grow and enlarge to such an extent as to produce a deformity 
in his form, especially his back. On one occasion, going to a 
store not far off, he, as was his usual custom, soon became 
pretty well intoxicated and got into a quarrel with one of the 
men who were i>resent in the store at the time. The quarrel 
resulted in a fist tight, and during the struggle his opponent 
pcs'ied him back against the wall and against a nail which 
had been driven into the wall for the purpose of hanging 
articles upon. Fortunately there was nothing on the nail at 
the time. He was pushed back with great force, and the wen 
upon his back struck right against the head of the nail, which 
penetrated the wen and tore it entirely out. He bad on 
neither coat nor vest, and as the wound bled freely, soon 
saturating the shirt, the spectators present accused his op- 
ponent with stabbing him. But after removing his shirt they 
saw that the wen was torn out, which caused the bleeding. 
He had been unwilling to submit to an operation, and he was 
so glad that the wen was removed that he made friends with 
his adversary and treated him for performing the cure." 

A Wife Swap — A Fishy Transaction. 

"A man named Fish went one day with his wife to Major 
Hog's store to do some trading. After awhile another man by 
the name of Durret and his wife came to the store, and whilst 
the women were trading the men were drinking whiskey. The 
women in the meantime drank rum, of that kind known as 
nigger rum, which they liked better than whiskey on account 
of its sweet taste. By the time they were through trading, 
both the men and their wives began to feel pretty happy, and 
the men agreed to swap wives, if the wives were willing. 
One said she was willing to be swapped; and the other said 
she was willing, but she required a bottle of rum extra. So 
the trade was concluded and all parties went home satisfied 
and happy." 



500 annals of newberry. 

Graham's Escape From Jail. 

"A maa named Graham once stole a negro, at that time a 
cajiital offence, from Joseph Caldwell, but he was soon caught 
and lodged in jail. A crazy negro man by the name of Rob, 
belonging to Patrick Caldwell, had been in jail some time for 
safe keeping before Graham was put in. After Graham had 
been in jail awhile Rob asked him one day why he did not 
get out. His reply was that he did not know how. Rob then 
told him that whea Coates comes in with his supper he must 
have both hands full of sand and stand behind the door, 
watch his chance and, after Coates had opened the door and 
entered the room, just as he turns round to close it, to throw 
the sand into his eyes. Graham did so; Coates dropped the 
candle and supper to get the sand out of his eyes, and Graham 
passed around him and made his escape. Rob was so glad 
that he had got out and made his escape that he yelled as 
load as he could for Graham to go it! and kept it up until 
quite a crowd of men collected at the jail to see what was 
the matter. After his escape Graham went to a little island 
in Broad River, where he was soon discovered, and Mr. Joseph 
Caldwell sent a negro man to the island to bring him out. 
He was taken back to jail; tried at the next term of court; 
plead guilty, and sentenced by the Judge to be hanged on a 
certain day. When the day came a great many people went 
to see him hung. H. H. Kinard, the Sheriff, took him to the 
gallows; put the cap on him. The spectators looking to see 
him swing in a few minutes, to their great surprise his pardon, 
or rather commutation of sentence, was read by the Sheriff 
while he was under the gallows with the cap oa. Then 
the cap and robe were removed and the Sheriff gave him a 
very severe whipping and told him he had to leave the State. 
After it was all over and Graham was discharged, men came 
galloping into town cursing, and swearing that they had 
ridden twenty miles to see him hung and the Sheriff would 
not hang him. No sympathy for the poor, unfortunate man, 
but anger at their disappoinment." 

Jesse Gilder. 
"This unfortunate man, who was badly bewitched, lived a 
mile beyond Bush River on the public road leading to 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 501 

Longshore's Store. He lived alone, was never married, and 
did all his own work, cooking, washing, etc. He was almost 
always complaining of being ridden so much by the witches 
that he got very little sleep. He was advised to marry; to 
get a good wife; that she would be company and a comfort 
to him, and the witches would not ride him any more. He 
said he could not support a wife; that he had made a trial 
of it to see if ho could support one. When he helped himself 
at breakfast and dinner he had another plate by him for the 
wife, and whatever he put in his own plate he put the same 
quantity and quality for the wife. After he was through 
eating he said there was too much on the wife's plate — it 
would be too expensive to support her. So he gave it up 
and moved to Edgefield to get away from the witches. But 
in this he did not succeed." 

[The compiler of these Annals knew Jesse Gilder well in 
Edgefield, and ho complained of being frequently and terribly 
witch-hau.nted. He finally molded a silver bullet and shot it 
into the picture, or efiigy, of her whom he supposed to be the 
witch, and ho flattered himself that he had killed her, as she 
did not live a great while longer.] 

An Alarm of Insurrection. 

"One evening in the year 18 — , I cannot now recall the 
exact date, a man named Thompson, who lived about four 
miles from the Court House, came into the village and told 
the people that there were five hundred negro men collected 
together, just above where Jalapa now stands, for the purpose 
of burning the village and killing everybody in it. There was 
great excitement; the women went into the hotel and into the 
Court House to be guarded. Every man in the village who 
had n gun was making all the haste he could for a fight. 
Sentinels wore stationed all around the village. But as the 
negroes did not make their appearance as soon as they were 
expected, Bert Harrington, taking a companion with him, went 
up the Laurens road some distance above the place where 
they were said to be collected, but not finding any, the county 
being entirely (^uiet, they returned. Their report of the true 
state of affairs removed all anxiety from the minds of the 
people." 



r)02 annals of newberby. 

Almost a Fight. 

•'On the cornex- of Mollobon Row, where Summer Brothers 
now (18SU) have a store, was ouce a long wooden building 
with a piazza in front. Robert Stewart kept store on the 
corner where Flynu's now is. [Now Jamieson's.] The Monday 
night of Court a hirge crowd of i>eople from the couatry 
stayed all night, some with Cheshire in the Pinchbeck Hotel, 
and some at Robert McCiillough's Hotel. After su})per, when 
there was a large crowd collected in the long piazza of the 
hotel, some mischievous boys quietly tied a rope extending 
from one piazza to the other, suspending it about one foot 
above the ground. They then went down near wh(n-e Ed- 
Scott's now is and made a loud noise and uproar as if there* 
was a tremendous tight going on. About fifteen or twenty- 
men, anxious to see the tight, ran as fast as they could to 
get there before it ended. The rope piled them all, and sud- 
denly the noise ceased and all was still. And as suddenly it 
flashed through the minds of all the fallen that they had been 
made the victuus of a jiractieal joke and there was no fight." 

I close here Sketches and Recollections of the Olden Times 
in Newberry as seen through the eyes of my good old friend. 
Dr. P. B. Ruff, and proceed to give a chapter from another 
very important section of our county. The writer of this 
sketch, if I have been rightly informed, is Mr. R. H. Wright, 
for many j'ears engaged in mercantile business on Mollohou 
Row. It was written July, 1880. 



Reminiscences of Mollohon. 

"This name designates a large section of country lying in 
the northeastern part of Newberry County. The origin of the 
name is not positively known. There is a tradition that it 
sprang from a family of that name who once lived somewhere 
on the head waters of Hunting Fork anterior to the Revolu- 
tionary War. The name was not always popular as now. 
There was a time when to call a man a Mollohonian was as 
sure to provoke a tight as if a would-be bully, at a general mus- 
ter, should lay a chip on his shoulder and dare any one to knock 
it off. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBBY. 503 

"Mollobon was a b;t(l charuoter, a Htench ia the nostrils of his 
neighbors. He kept a little tavoro, a rendezvous for the idle 
aud vicious of that section of country. At certain seasons he 
ran a distillery, and at such times the neighbors, after a week's 
work, would be drawn hither to enjoy socially a swig of beer. 
It also attracted the neighbors' pigs, and while they innocently 
went, like their owners, for simply a swig of slop, they were 
sure to leave with their ears and tails so manipulated as to 
correspond with the Mollohon mark, viz. : a smooth crop of both 
ears and a very short tail. These, with other disreputable 
habits which are not necessary minutely to describe, rendered 
the old man, with his three sons, Tom, Dick and Shadrack, quite 
obnoxious in that vicinity. Nor did the old woman and the 
daughters, Betsy Jane and Dorothy Ann, receive more sympa- 
thy from the neighboring females; for they all declared at 
the same time that 'old Patsy Mollohon and her gals' were 
the meanest things they ever did see. But, ])erhaps, there 
should be some allowance made for the existence of the last 
sentiment, for it is said that Dorothy Ann was a very pretty 
girl; that she managed to wear the nobbiest hat and the nicest 
stockings of any girl thereabout, and, notwithstanding the 
cloud resting upon the family, the boys of the neighborhood, 
or at least the best looking ones, asserted that Dorothy Ann 
was all right. But when the women set their heads together 
something must be done, and so old Mollohon had to leave, 
lock, stock and l^arrel, including Dorothy Ann. 

"But the name of Mollohon did not leave with them. It 
began to be applied to first one and then another in jest, after- 
wards to the community; and thus it spread until we have the 
popular 'Mollohon' of the present. 

'^Mollohon has long been noted for her schools of learning. 
The first cl?R?ical school founded in the State, outside of 
Charleston, was within her present borders. Old Mount Bethel 
Academy, once situated en the east of the Columbia road, en 
lands now belonging to Br. Thomas C. Brown, was at the time 
of which we write a fiourifihing institution of learning. It was 
established and conducted under the patronage of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal Church, and for a number of years, until 
removed to a more eligible and central locality, dispensed, 
under the tutorship of Rev. Mr. Dougherty, Eli.sha Hammond 



504 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and Josiah P. Smith, as high a grade of learning as was to be 
found anywhere in the State. It will be remembered that the 
name applied to this sect of Christians, 'Methodists,' like Mol- 
lohon, first originated in derision, and for a long time no one 
could be induced to ally himself with this sect, unless he was 
truly concerned to flee from the wrath to come. It is also 
somewhat strange that this sect, at one time so universally 
ridiculed, especially under the charge of illiteracy, should be 
the first pioneers to establish a classical school of high grade 
in the State and draw its patronage from the first families of 
the same. Since that time Mollohon has not been slow to 
manifest her high appreciation of eduration by securing the 
services of able teachers. The fruits of the services of James 
Flanigan at Mollohon Academy, between the years 1820 and 
1830, have not ceased to be felt, not only in Mollohon, but 
throughout the State. Our worthy townsman, Dr. P. B. Ruff, 
Avhose life and services as a physician have been a benediction 
to the town of Newberry for more than half a century, received 
his academic instruction at this institution, and has no cause 
to be ashamed to 2:)oint to it as his alma mater. Later the 
same institution was presided over by Kev. Clough S. Beard, 
a ripe scholar and an apt teacher, as many now living can tes- 
tify. Several boys from this town were his pupils; among 
them was R. B. H., who is still a resident of this county." 



Revolutionary Incidents. 

'•During the period of the Revolutionary \Yar this section 
was sorely aiflicted by opposite political sentiments, from which 
sprang the bitterest strife. Neighbor was arrayed against 
neighbor, until the excess into which they were led by this 
antagonism was truly shocking to every sentiment of human- 
ity. Perhaps it is well that no one has attempted to write her 
history, and that time has faded out the many thrilling trad- 
itions that once circulated in this section. Oft have I, when a 
small boy, sat at the feet of a favorite kinswoman and listened 
to her stories of these troublous times, as they were told to 
her by those who experienced in person the horrors which 
they described. 

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505 



Cromer's to what is known as the Dulin place, on land now 
owned b/ M. A. Carlisle, Esq., a few hundred yards south of 
the crossing of Gilder's Creek, there lived Major Thomas Du- 
gan — the debris from the old chimneys may yet be seen on 
the bluff — and his wife Margaret. They had nine sons and 

one daughter — Robert, , John, James, William, Hiram, 

Thomas, Park and George and Margaret. Major Dugan was 
a staunch whig, and took an active part in the service of the 
colonies. He was early appointed to the rank of Major, and 
is supposed to have served with General Sumter. Only two 

of his sons, Capt. Robert Dugan and a younger brother, , 

were old enough to take an active part in the war. They 
were also active whigs, and did good service, taking part in 
all the work of that stirring period. This rendered the Dugan 
family particularly obnoxious to the tory element of Mollohon 
and of Laurens and the Saluda country and subjected them 
to special and repeated insults and plunder. But the crown 
ing tragedy was thus described: 

''On one occasion Captain Dugan and his brother were on 
a Ay visit to their mother, expecting to spend the night with 
her and on the early morn to hie away to their commands. 
The hour of midnight had passed and all was quiet. They 
had made similar visits before without molestation and were 
thus beguiled into careless watching. About the hour of 2 
A. M., when both the young men wore indulging a few short 
hours in sleep, and only a faithful mother kept watch lest some 
harm should befall her two boys, her anxiety was aroused by 
hearing a slight but not unusual noise in the yard. Going to 
an opening in the wall, she peered out into the darkness; but 
all was quiet. Again stilling her fears by reasoning that she 
was probably mistaken, that it might be only her anxious 
solicitude exciting her to undue forebodings, she again re- 
sumed her quiet vigils. Not many minutes had elapsed before 
she heard at the back door a gentle but unmistakable raj), 
immediately followed by a like signal at all the other open- 
ings of the house. After this a vigorous knocking at the front 
door suddenly aroused her worst fears. Entrance was de- 
manded by a dozen or more boisterous voices. There was no 
mistaking the situation or the purpose of her untimely vis- 
itors. Her presence of mind did not forsake her, but speedily 



500 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

mustering her stec'i of expedients she thrust one of her boys 
into the opening of the chimney; the other, perhrps moie 
rash, threw himself from (he upper window, hoping to elude 
his pursuers by rapid flight under cover cf the darkness; but 
an unlucky alighting shivered a bone of his leg, which left 
him in the hands of his bitter foes. The heart-rending 
sequel then begins. The room is suddenly fiUed by a band 
of tories, some of whom are recognized as neighbors, young 
men not older than their captives, boys whom that kind 
matron had nursed in infancy and waited upon their childish 
whims. With savage taunts, threats and insults, they toyed 
with the sensibilities of that fond mother itntil they were 
satiated with their own orgies. To carry out their hellish 
threats and to make sure that no torture would pass unseen, 
they fired a small house in the yard, and while it crackled 
and shot its i^uddy glare athwart the yard, in the presence of 
that mother, they proceeded t ) hang their victims to the 
limbs of aa oak hard by, under the shades of which they had 
often played in childhood while she watched them with fond 
delight. Is th's not enough ? Wait and hear the final sequel. 
Before the eyes of that mother, with their broadswords, they 
hewed the limbs and quivering flesh from the bodies of their 
suspended victims, and when their ingenuity could invent no 
greater torture, skulked away through the darkness, leaving 
the mother amid the wailings of her little ones to bear her 
burden of anguish while they would gloat over their deeds of 
valor. God nerves his servants to bear the yoke that he per- 
mits to rest upon them. After a brief spell, employed in 
quieting her tortured mind and bringing herself to the full 
realization of her sad surroundings, she began to collect with 
her own hands the mangled remains of her murdered boys. 
Somewhere on the hillside near the scene of this revolting 
tragedy she buried the pride of her heart. The precise spot 
is not known, but no doubt good angels are keeping their 
vigils over their dust. 

"This is a tradition of Mollohon, tamely related, it is true, 
and wanting in minuteness, but embodying as fully as is now 
remembered, after more than forty years, the facts of the 
story as they were told to the writer. It may be a satisfac- 
tion to some who may read this story to be assured by an- 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 507 

other tradition that several of the actors iu tlio foregoing 
tragedy were subsequeatly executed on the gallows at the 
cross-roads near the present residence of Mrs. Henry Whit- 
mire, and thus received in part a just penalt}' for this and 
other crimes committed. 

"In the possession of Mrs. Elizabeth Dugau, the widow of 
Wm. Dugan, whose brothers were the victims in the foregoing 
tragedy, was a dagger of fine steel nicely finished, with ebony 
heft ard silver bands, upon one of which was engraved the 
initials of Captain Dugan. This weapon had been presented, 
it was understood, by General Sumter in token of his appre- 
ciation of vahiable services rendered. Strange to say, these 
associations seem not to have impaited any special value ta 
this relic; but it was prized only as a convenient instrument 
for opening bee gums, topping hedges, and the like. Its ac- 
customed place was on a nail near the clock. On one occa- 
sion while on a visit, not seeing the familiar blade that had 
so often started my youthful imaginings, I said, 'Aunt Betsy, 
what has become of the bowie knifed She remarked, 'Blesa 
your soul, child, I had Jimmie Toland to make me two as 
good butcher knives of it as you ever saw.' Thus perished a 
relic I had imagined could not have bfen bought; but long 
familiarity and a fading away from the mind of the associa- 
tions .imparting almo.st its sole value, and having great confi- 
dence in the skill of Jimmie Toland to impart the proper 
shape and temper that a butcher knife should have, the good 
old soul was beguiled into subjugating sentiment to utility. 

'"But she still had another relic from the same source, viz., 
a knife and fork of peculiar shape and finish, once the prop- 
erty of Captain Dugau, captured by him from a British officer 
of dragoon. This I hoped to save from the fate of the other, 
but on searching for the same only the fork could be found, 
driven in the wall and serving to hold hanks of cotton yarn 
as they came from the reel. This she kindly presented to 
me. Seeing my disappointment at the use to which she had 
turned the dagger, she assured me that if she had known that 
I prized them she would have been more pleased to have 
given them to me than to have the butcher knives, notwith- 
standing Jimmie Toland had fashioned them in his best style. 

"Many other traditions of like tenor were once current in 
Mollohon, but are not sufficiently remembered by this writer ta 



508 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

warrant the attempt to reproduce them. He will, however, bo 
pardoned for introducing a character who once lived and 
claimed Mollohon as his home, inasmuch as this character 
gave to his mind its first and last ideal of a perfect hero: 

"Charles Charity was a negro; an old man when I first 
knew him, which was more than fifty years ago. I saw him 
as he visited my father (his guardian). He had been freed 
by the General Government, and for several years before his 
death received a_^pension on account of service rendered as a 
private soldier in the Revolutionary war. Of these services 
there can be no doubt, as his identity has been satisfactorily 
traced. His appearance to a child of four or five years was 
simply awe-inspiring. Of medium height, spare build, straight 
and erect, but beginning to totter, his motion quick and 
nervous, his voice short and husky, his complexion black, his 
head covered by a mass of semi-kinky hair as white as wool, 
his eyes fierce and glistening set in their deep ebony sockets 
— all combined to make up a figure never to be forgotten. 
True to the peculiarities of his race, he delighted in magni- 
fying his exploits, his deeds of daring and hairbreadth es- 
capes, on occasions of general muster. When tho patriotism 
of the country was expected to exhibit itself, then Charles 
Charity was a central figure, honored by the undivided atten- 
tion of the uninitiated 'melish.' But the proudest thought of 
Charles Charity's life was that he had once belonged to a 
gentleman and was therefore no ordinary free negro. How 
he came to be an enlisted soldier is not definitely known, but 
from his own account it is believed that he was in the 
beginning of the war the body servant of a young ofiicer 
serving under General Sumter; that by the vicissitudes of war 
said officer was cut off, and that Charles, being enamored by 
the excitement of war, asked to be enrolled as a soldier, 
which request was granted; and thus his name stands to this 
day among the honored defenders of our common country. 
Some time after the war Charles married a slave woman, the 
property of John Hatton, who lived on Patterson's Creek in 
Mollohon, and there he died and was buried; and though his 
name is inscribed on our Nation's archives as one of her 
noble defenders, his dust sleeps on the banks of Patterson's 
Creek in Mollohon without a tablet to mark his last resting 
place." 



annals of newberry. 500 

Sketches by John T. Peterson. 
The following sketches, facts and items of local history are 
from the pen of the late John T. Peterson, Esq., so long and 
so' favorably known as a man and citizen and as a public 
officer : 

Shady Grove. 

"The old Methodist Church called Shady Grove stood a 
little over a hundred yards from the road now leading from 
Newberry to Island Ford by w^ay of Mount Zion Church and 
the long bridge and only a little distance from Dr. J. M. 
Thompson's residence. It was, I think, in its prime about the 
year 1820. But soon after this, or about this time, it began 
to wane, though it was continued as a church and had regular 
preaching until 1835 or 1880, when it was amalgamated with 
the church at Kadesh, which stood on the side of the Belfast 
road, close to the preseyit residence of Dr. Thomas W. Boozer, 
and formed the church now known as Trinity. 

"Shady Grove, I believe, was the fruit of the labors of the 
Rev. Mr. Russell, who, in some of the first years of the present 
century, did so much towards giving the Methodist denomina- 
tion a foothold iu that section. A great many, it may well be 
supposed, joined the church through excitement, and some 
because it seemed to be the fashion at the time. So it is not 
to be wondered at that in a few years the calm, which is sure 
to follow a storm, came on and Shady Grove began to lose 
ground. 

"I remember to have heard it told on a man by the name 
of Scott that at the time of one of the greatest religious ex- 
citements at Shady Grove he lost his grip by accident. It 
seems that a protracted effort was being made and mourners 
were crowding the altar every day. Mr. Scott, who lived near 
by, was very much interested, so he and all his family at- 
tended church every day. On his return home one evening 
he found that his old sow had broken into his potato patch 
and ruined it, whereupon he flew into a great rage and ex- 
claimed: 'D — n the old sow! I wish she was in h-11 and the 
preacher tied to her tail.' 

"Besides this there were other drawbacks. Quite a number 
of her mo.st zealous and influential members moved West. 



510 ANNALS OF NEVVBERKY. 

The whole complexion of the neighborhood was changed, and 
judging from the following story I would suppose that the 
morals of the community fell off somewhat: 

"After Shady Grove was considerably on the wane, a Iccil 
preacher had an appointment to preach there on a certain 
Sunday, and after he had finished his discourse he took occa- 
sion to compliment the congregation on their good behavior. 
He said their behavior had been very good. 'In fact,' said 
he, 'remarkably good for the people of this place.' From this 
I would infer that the general demeanor of the congregations 
which attended Shady Grove did not, as a general thing, 
stand very high. 

"The old church, however, continued to struggle until about 
the tihie before mentioned, when, finding the church at Kadesh 
in about the same condition, it was concluded to unite the 
two, and so the church at Trinity was formed. This church 
was built about half way between the. two and has ever since 
continued to prosper. There was, however, occasional preach- 
ing at Shady Grove for several years after this; and even 
after it had been entirely ignored by the denomination the 
old veteran, Daniel Stewart, who had been one of the founders, 
and for many years an official member, continued to hold 
prayer meetings at the old church. His congregations, how- 
ever, gradually fell off in members until the writer was the 
only person who attended. He did so, not so much with the 
expectation of being benefited by the prayers and exhorta- 
tions, as from respect to his old friend. 

"There was quite an extensive burying ground near the 
church, and for a long time after the church had been dis- 
continued persons, whose forefathers and other relatives slept 
in the old graveyard, continued to bury their loved ones there. 
But at length it was given up and is now but a mass of 
briars and bushes. The last person buried there was the old 
man Daniel Stewart, and he was buried in the spot selected 
by himself many years before. 

"But after the church had begun to wane there was a con- 
siderable interest kept up in the old place by large and 
flourishing schools. We all know that in neighborhoods where 
the people are generally poor there is sure to be a large 
number of children. The late Daniel Goggans, when quite a 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 511 

young maa and just starting out in life, taught there for 
some tiaie and his schools were ahvays large and flourishing. 
He was a most excellent teacher and a firm believer in the 
old saying that a bird that can sing and won't sing should 
be made to sing. So when occasion required he did not fail 
to use the rod freely. 

"I presume it would now be difficult for any person to 
locate the exact spot where the old church stood; and it will 
not be many years until a person happening ujion the grave- 
yard will wonder how it was that any people would choose 
such a place for a burying ground." 



Old Kadesh. 

"The old Methodist Church called Kadesh was on the road 
leading from Newberry C. H. to Belfast, six miles from New- 
berry, and very near to where the present residence of Dr. 
Thomas W. Boozer now stands. I am inclined to think that 
at one time the membership at Kadesh was pretty large, but 
for some cause or other it gradually dwindled away until it 
was finally joined with old Shady Grove to make Trinity, 
For many years before and several years after its final aban- 
donment as a church it was used as a school house, and 
several pedagogues with whom I was acquainted once swayed 
the birch within its walls. Col. James L. Gilder once taught 
there. His school was large and flourishing, and among h^s 
pui)ils at one time was my old and staunch friend, W. D. 
Reagin, who was then nearly a grown man. During the year 
he had a difficulty with some of the other boys, and it turned 
out that he was given the choice of leaving the school or 
taking a whipping. Being anxious to get an education he 
decided at once to take the whipping, and accordingly did so. 
The trustees of the school, however, heard of the difficulty 
and took the matter in hand. They had a meeting and in- 
vestigated the affair and decided that although he had taken 
the whipping he should leave the school. He then began 
attending the school at old Shady Grove tau^jt by the late 
Daniel Goggans. 

"I remember to have hoard an ancclolo told as having 
happened in Colonel Gilder's school, which I will ri,-late for 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



the benefit of other teachers who may sometimes happen to 
meet up with similar cases. The Colonel was examining a 
class, and among other things asked if they conld tell in 
what zone we lived. The pupils to whom the question was 
put hesitated so long that it was repeated, when a little girl 
who was sitting at some distance spoke up and said: 'I know, 
I know.' 'Well,' said the Colonel, 'if you know, tell us.' 
Said she: 'We live in South Carolina, Newberry District.' 
'Yes,' said the Colonel, 'you are correct, and if you belonged 
to the class you should go head.' 

"William Owens lived and kept a store just on the top of 
the hill about one hundred yards from D. Boozer's present 
residence and down the road in the direction of Newberry. 
In those days it was a rare thing to find a storekeeper who 
did not keep among his stock in trade a pretty liberal quan- 
tity of something to Ijeep the spirits up. Mr. Owens being 
in Rome of course did as Rome does, and so Owens' store 
became famous as a place for fun and frolic. Mr. Owens died 
young, leaving, for that day and time, a pretty fair property. 
Fergus McClellan married the widow, with whom he lived a 
good many years, and after her death he removed to Alabama. 

"Andrew McConnell lived about one mile further up the 
Belfast road, near Kadesh, at the place now owned by his 
nephew, Andrew J. Longshore. He was' descended from Irish 
parents and, I think, was born on the Green Isle, but brought 
to this country by his parents when a child. After the death 
o*P his father the support and maintenance of the family de- 
volved on him and his mother, but she was a host within 
hex-self. I sup2:)ose there is still quite a number of the old 
persons living in that section of country who remember Mary 
McConnell and the anecdotes that used to be told of her 
shrewdness at a bargain and of her untiring industry and 
perseverance. I have always understood that they began 
keeping a little jug tavern in a room of the dwelling house, 
and, as they prospered, gradually increased it to a store. He 
continued to merchandise up to the time of his death and 
leEt quite a handsome property. 

"Andrew J. Longshore's mother was McConnell's sister. 
He has lived at the old place for the last forty years, and 
has exhibited, in a marked degree, those characteristics of in- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 513 

dustry and perseverance possessed by his grandmother and his 
uncle Andrew McConnell. 

[This very excellent man and neighbor, and good citizen, 
died on Monday, March 28, 1892, at about the age of 75 
years. He died of paralysis at his old home, where he had 
lived so long, in Township No. 6.] 

"An old lady by the name of Reese was one of the nearest 
neighbors to Kadesh. She owned and lived upon the planta- 
tion now owned by our Cou.nty Treasurer, M. H. Gary. Her 
residence, however, was some two or three hundred yards 
from where his dwelling now stands. Mrs. Reese, besides 
carrying on a farm, was also a cake baker, and for many 
years might always be seen at public places with her little 
Jersey wagon loaded with cakes — and beer of her own make, 
which sparkled like champagne, and I have no doubt was 
much better — drawn by a horse as fat as a butter ball. 
Everybody knew that anything made by Mrs. Reese was sure 
to be as nice as nice could be, so she never failed to have 
her full share of custom. She was one of the last of the 
generation of old time women, always amiable, kind and 
obliging, and whom to know was an honor to any person. 
She stuck to the old spinning wheel, flax wheel and loom as 
long as she lived. One of her descendants now lives in the 
town of Newberry, and her herculean efforts to support, rear 
and educate her two sons mark her as one who deserves a 
place among the grandest women of the land. 

"Robert Cleland lived within less than a mile of Kadesh, at 
the same place where his elderly maiden daughter, Nancy 
Cleland, now resides. He had a good farm which he culti- 
vated nicely and profitably, making all his' supplies at home 
and generally having some to sell. He was a blacksmith by 
trade and worked at it for a good many years after his age 
and easy circumstances would have admonished most men 
that it was time to give up work and t«ke their ease. Not- 
withstanding he lived so near the Methodist Church of Kadesh 
he was a member of the Baptist Church, and, I think, one of 
the most attentive attendants upon the services of the church 
that I have ever known. During the summer there were gen- 
erally protracted meetings held at the various Baptist churches 
and he was sure to attend every day if within reach. The 



514 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

only drawback was that wliea he became still be was almost 
sure to go to sleep; so it happened that he seldom heard the 
sermon. Few better men ever lived in the neighborhood of 
old Kadesh. 

"John Cleland, a brother of Robert's, lived about a mile up 
the Kadesh road from McConnell's, on the place where Clarke 
Mingo now lives. He once removed to Newton County, Ga., 
but came back in a few years, bought his old place back and 
there remained until his death. I suppose he came to the 
same conclusion that my friend, Charles Scott, once did. 
Said he: 'I never want to go to h-11 or to Georgia.' John 
Cleland was the father of my true and tried friend, Charles 
S. Cleland, who now lives in the nighborhood of Bush River 
Church, and if all men were as honest and honorable as he 
was, there would be less need for civil service reform. His 
word was as good as his bond, and neither ever failed. 

"George Boozer, the father of Dr. Thomas W. Boozer, 
George B., Samuel P. and Henry D. Boozer, lived just on the 
west side of Beaver Dam Creek and not much more than half 
a mile from Kadesh. He and his family were Presbyterians 
and he took no stock in Kadesh, except in its schools, where, 
I believe, most of his sons and daughters obtained the rudi- 
ments of their education. 

"Henry Cromer lived for some years within about a mile of 
Kadesh. He was one of the pillars of the church at that 
place and an official member. He frequently prayed and ex- 
horted in meeting, and, though a very quiet and somewhat 
bashful man, he generally got on the high horse on these 
occasions, and as he began to warm up he was sure to begm 
to rub his ear with his hand, and the warmer he got the 
harder he rubbed, so by the time he concluded his ear was as 
red as if it had been painted. He afterwards removed to 
Franklin County, Ga., where he spent the remainder of his 
life. His son, George Cromer, was also a member of Kadesh 
and also removed to Georgia at about the same time his 
father did. They settled in the same neighborhood, where, 
while the old man continued to make a good living, George 
accumulated a handsome property. From information which I 
have received I suppose that George Cromer did as much, if 
not more, towards the building up of Methodism in his neigh- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 515 

borhood as any other man. He was very zealous and had a 
stentorian voice which he did not spare when occasion re- 
quired. In proof of which it is said that he was often heard 
to pray at a distance of three miles, and some say more. He 
died some time since, but some of his children and grand- 
children still live near his old home. 

"The writer has heard the names of a number of other 
persons who once lived in the neighborhood of Kadesh, but 
who either died or moved away before he ever knew much 
about them. He remembers to have seen some of the Plunkits, 
Murdocks and IMcClungs, who, at one time, lived near Kadesh, 
and of whom he never heard a disparaging word spoken. 

"There was a graveyard at Kadesh of considerable extent, 
but which has been long since utterly neglected and is now 
all overgrown with trees and briars; and, as in those days there 
were but few graves marked by anything more than a plank, 
or, at best, a rough rock, it would now be difficult for any of 
those who have loved ones there to find the place where they 
rest. Col. James L. Gilder, several years before his death, 
had a house built over and around the graves of some of his 
own family, and room left therein for his own remains, which 
were there deposited after his death. With this exception 
there are very few, if any, graves in the burying ground 
which could be identified by any person now living. So old 
Kadesh has passed away; as all other things now on earth of 
a like transitory nature must also pass." 

Old New Chapel. 

"When the writer first knew the New Chapel Methodist 
Church it stood about a half mile southwest of where it now 
stands. This was about the year 1820. The membership of 
the church had dwindled away, and I am not sure if there 
were not several years in which there was not a member on 
the roll. 

"Like most other meeting houses, as they Avere then called, 
it was also used for a school house, and the writer has quite 
a vivid recollection of the red stripes he used to wear- on his 
legs received at Old New Chapel. Immediately around where 
the meeting house then stood there was a dense thicket of 
black jack bushes and briars. There were but few small 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



patches of cultivated land for quite a distance in any direc- 
tion. There was also a burying ground of considerable extent 
near the house; but even then it was all overgrown with black 
jack and briars. I remember to have seen more than one 
buryiug there, but of whom I cannot now say. It was a very 
old meeting house and showed signs of several settlements 
near it, so that I presume the skeletons lately exhumed (as I 
have heard) by Daniel Stewart, must have been of persons 
who had been buried at, or near, old New Chapel, and who 
have long since ceased to be remembered by the present gen- 
eration. The neighborhood was quite populous at the time of 
which I am speaking. There were the Rileys, the Lashleys, 
the Knights, the Wyatts, the Curls and several others, who 
now, so far as I know, have no representatives in South Caro- 
lina; certainly not in Newberry County. 

"As I have before stated, the membership of New Chapel 
had dwindled down, until, I suppose, it would have been dif- 
ficult to raise a corporal's guard. But the circuit preachers 
still kept it on their list of appointments, hoping, I presume, 
that something would turn up, and they had their reward. 
About the years 1831 to 1833 that old veteran, David Derrick, 
was appointed to the Newberry Circuit, and made a long pull, 
a strong pull and a pull all together to raise up old New 
Chapel, and he succeeded. The late Isaac Herbert and his 
most exemplary wife were among the first of his converts, 
and from that time forward New Chapel continued to flourish. 

"Isaac Herbert was the son of Walter Herbert, who was the 
first man that I ever heard called Esquire. He was a large, 
portly, dignified looking man, and when in after years I saw 
a little weasel of a looking man called Esquire, I felt per- 
fectly astounded, and this feeling sticks to me yet. Thug 
going to show that first impressions are hard to eradicate. 

"Walter Herbert had been raised among the Quakers, though 
I don't think he ever joined their society. He was a plain, 
substantial, common sense man, and represented Newberry 
County in the State Legislature more than once. He lived to 
a good old age, and, I believe, allied himself with a total 
abstinence society and joined the Methodist Church at New 
Chapel some years before his death. No better or more useful 
man in his sphere ever lived or died in the neighborhood of 
New Chapel. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 517 

"His son Isaac was his successor as a Magistrate, and also, 
for a time, as a Representative, and had the best interests of 
his fellow-men at heart. Some thought him a little precise 
and hidebound in his notions; but to the writer, who was 
surely wild enough in those days, he was a firm, unwavering 
friend. 

"An Irishman by the name of Nelson once lived near where 
the church now stands. His oldest son, Thomas, whom he 
always persisted in calling wee Tammy, afterwards became 
famous as a manager and overseer. He carried R. R. Nance's 
hands to Alabama and remained in charge of his plantation 
there for several years, and I think Mr. Nance retained him 
in his employ for a length of time after his removal to that 
country. He was a genial, jovial man and used to tell innu- 
merable anecdotes on his father. The old man was a strict 
Methodist and of course held family prayers every night. 
Some of the older people will remember how much sport they 
used to have in their childish days, when a bat would come 
into the house of a night, by closing doors and attacking it 
with brooms and sticks. One night Mr. Nelson was at prayer 
and wee Tammy was on his knees enjoying as such boys 
always do, when happening to look up he saw a bat. In a 
moment all else was forgotten, and springing to his feet he 
exclaimed, 'D — n the bat!' The next moment he was again 
on his knees as devout as ever. But his hasty repentance did 
not save his hide, for the next morning the old man inter- 
viewed him for about the space of half an hour. 

"When the writer first knew Old New Chapel, David Dom- 
inick lived but a few hundred yards from where the church 
now stands, but left the country before it was built. Adam 
Monts then lived at the Dominick place for a number of 
years, but he, too, went West with the exodus from the neigh- 
borhood of Isaac Arnold, VV'ilks and Joseph Conwill, John 
Jenkins, Daniel S. Black and others. 

"Jeremiah Morgan once lived on the place now owned by 
Dr. D. S. Cannon on Saluda, then called the old Clary place. 
He attached himself to the church at Old New Chapel and 
became an official member, though after a few years he left 
the Methodist and attached himself to the Baptist Church, 
and, I think, preached occasionally. His son, Jesse Morgan, 



("318 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

is now living in Mississippi and is a Lutheran minister in fine 
standing. The writer had the pleasure of hearing him preack 
some three years ago and was much pleased with the effort 
"About the year 1832 or 1838 a new church was built on 
the ground where it now stands, and the old house was 
abandoned and has become a thing of the past. And I doubt 
if there are a half dozen persons now living in the neighbor- 
hood who could point out the spot where it once stood, or 
even remembers that it ever was." 

Coate's Meeting House. 

"Coate's Meeting House was on the public road leading 
from Newberry C. H. to Long's Bridge on Little River, by 
way of Deadfall, and between Deadfall and the bridge about 
two hundred yards from where Mr. G. Henry Werts now lives. 
It was built of large hewn logs and had been originally built 
by the Quakers on the place now owned by James B. Clai*y, 
and was called White Lick. Shortly after the exodus of the 
Quakers in the early part of the present century it was occu- 
pied for a time by the Methodists, as I judge from an anec- 
dote which I remember to have heard when a small boy. 

"An itinerant preacher by the name of Russell had the 
Newberry Circuit in charge. He was a great revivalist, and I 
suppose did more to build up the Methodist denomination and 
give it a firm foothold in the county than any man has done^ 
before or since. Houses of worship were very scarce, and he, 
therefore, was in the habit of preaching at any neighbor's 
house who would let him do so, either day or night. One 
night he was having quite a stormy meeting at a neighbor's 
house and at the close of the services opened the door of the 
church for the reception of members. A man by the name of 
Arthur Barrett had been quietly sleeping through the whole 
sermon, but when the call for joiners was made the rush and 
noise were so great that he awoke, and, seeing quite a number 
going up and giving their hands, he did likewise, and then 
quietly went back and resumed his nap. When it was all 
over the preacher took out his bonk and began reading the 
names of those who had joined and calling upon them to state 
at what church they wished their names enrolled. When 
Brother Barrett's name was called, some person went and 



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519 



waked him up, when the preacher said: 'Brother Barrett, 
where do you wish to have your membership recorded?' 
Said he, 'At White Lick, I imagine.' 

"Doctor Clements was a cabinet-maker and had a shop at 
Esquire Henry Coate's. Among other things he made was a 
musical instrument called a dulcimer, upon which he also 
played with much skill. Some time after Mr. Barrett had 
joined the church he called on Mr. Clements and asked him 
to play a tune for him. To the Doctor's query, 'What tune 
will yon have?' he replied, 'A spiritual tune, by all means.' 
The Doctor then struck up 'Leather Breeches,' and looking 
around saw his auditor sitting as if in a trance, with the tears 
rolling down his cheeks, and when he had finished Barrett 
remarked: 'That was delicious,' at the same time wiping his 
eyes. 

"Some Esquire, perhaps Esquire Coate, once appointed him 
a constable and directed him to serve a summons in a case of 
debt on one of the neighbors, remarking that he wished it 
served immediately. Barrett mounted his horse and started 
as if life and death depended on his speed. At a sudden 
turn in the road he met a woman on foot and called to her, 
'Get out of the way, for I am on urgent business.' She was 
too slow, however, and he ran over her. 

"The meeting house at White Lick, having fallen into 
disuse, was purchased or procured in some way by the people 
of the Deadfall settlement and rebuilt at the place, before 
mentioned, on land belonging to Esquire Henry Coate; hence 
the name of Coate's Meeting House. It was free to all de- 
nominations and was also used as a school house for many 
years. The writer remembers the names of quite a number of 
pedagogues who once swayed the birch within its walls, and 
looks bapk with wonder at the number of exercises that fell 
to his share. 

"At the number of teachers who, at one time or another, 
taught in Coate's Meeting House, we will mention only three. 
Capt. Ross Bird was a man rather past middle age, a good 
scholar and most excellent teacher. He was a stranger in the 
neighborhood, and if the writer ever heard where he came 
from it has escaped his mind. He was a large, portly man an 
very fond of his cups. He almost invariably spent Saturday 



520 ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 

at a place where something to drink was to be had, and it 
was not always the case that he was able to keep his reckoning 
on his way home. On one of these occasions he was found 
by a neighbor who took him to his house and put him to bed. 
Sometime during the night he awoke and had lost, not only 
his surroundings, but even his own identity. Said he, 'Where 
am I? Who am I? I can't remember who I am. O!' said 
he, 'I believe this is Captain, Major, General Ross Bird.' 

"A man by the name of Evans once taught at Coate's 
Meeting House for a short time, and I now have the impres- 
sion that he was a most excellent teacher. I think he was an 
entire stranger in the country. He was quite a large man 
and rode a very small pony. He seemed to be a monomaniac 
on the subject of grammar. He boarded around among the 
scholars and made it a point to deliver a lecture on grammar 
every night, and in this way got the nick-name of Big Syntax, 
and his pony that of Little Syntax. He was, moreover, a 
great lady's man and attempted to court every woman with 
whom he came in contact. On the 14th of February, however, 
he received a valentine which broke up the school. Valentines 
in those days were not, as now, neatly printed and perfumed, 
ariR a person wishing to send one had to make and write it. 
The verses contained in the one which he received were as 
follows : 

" 'You hog, you dog, you dirty swine! 
I drew you for my valentine; 
I drew you from amongst a dozen, 
Because I thought you was the old sow's cousin.' 

That straw broke the camel's back. The school was given up 
and I never beard of Mr. Evans afterwards. 

"A. R. Able was the last of the Mohegans. He taught at 
Coate's Meeting House for quite a number of years and al- 
ways had from forty to sixty pupils. He was a good teacher 
and a firm believer with Solomon as to the use of the rod. 
If a pupil was too lazy or too stupid to learn in the ordinary 
way h^ never hesitated to maul it into him. The writer can 
remember dancing many a hornpipe on the floor of Coate's 
Meeting House while Absalom R. Able made the music. He 
thought it mighty hard and perfectly unnecessary at the time, 
but of late years he has come to the conclusion that perhaps 
it was but bread cast upon the waters. 



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'•But Coate's Meeting House has long been a thing of the 
past. No sign now remains to mark the spot where it once 
stood. And we can now call to mind scarcely a dozen of the 
urchins who used to dance to the miisic with us who have 
not yet passed over the river." 

Cox's Fishing Place. 

"Sixty years ago when the writer was a small boy he re- 
members to have heard old persons say that at the first 
settling of the country, and for many years afterwards, Saluda 
River was as clear as a mountain stream. Shad in large 
numbers annually visited its waters, and fishing places were 
established at intervals all along its course. 

"Cox's Fishing Place was on the Newberry side, some two 
miles below what is now known as Kinard's Ferry. This 
ferry was then owned by Francis Higgins, and was known far 
and wide as Higgins' Ferry. Francis Higgins was, I think, 
an Irishman by birth, who, by persevering industry and rigid 
economy, accumulated a competence, gave all his children a 
good education, lived to a good old age and left behind him 
a large fund of anecdotes. 

"Mr. Higgins was the father of our late much esteemed 
fellow-citizen, F. B. Higgins, of the town of Newberry. He 
was also survived by a younger son, Mark, and by two daugh- 
ters, Ann and Mary. Mark lived for many years on the old 
homestead, but, a few years before the late war between the 
States, he caught the Western fever and removed to Missis- 
sippi, where he died a few years ago. Ann married a man 
by the name of Etheredge. They went West and I never 
heard of them afterwards. Mary married Dr. Rudolph. They 
also went West. 

"A short distance below the ferry sixty years ago lived 
Mrs. Elizabeth Webber. She had been the widow of Cox, 
after whom the fishing place was named. The writer remem- 
bers her three sons — James, Cornelius and William Cox — who 
had all attained to man's estate when they removed to Georgia 
about the year 1824. Her last husband, Webber, was killed 
at the Deadfall by a man named Banister, who, I think, made 
his escape and was not heard of afterwaras. 

"A short distance below Mrs. Webber's and nearly opposite 



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Cox's Fishing Place (on the Edgotiold side of Saluda) lived 
the Turners, William and David. Their father was a brother 
to the celebrated Ned Turner, and, I believe, the only one, of 
a large family of bi-others, who did not take part in the Rev- 
olutionary struggle. This subjected him to the suspicions of 
both parties, and between the two he had a pretty hard time. 
He died before the recollection of the writer: biit his wife, 
who was a Spraggins, survived him for a niimber of years. 
She kept a great many geese, and fed them from the corn 
crib every evening. The writer remembers to have seen her, 
many and many a time, catch two old ganders who wore 
tighting over their food and bump their heads togeth-^r to 
make them quit. He remembers her death as well as if it 
had been yesterday. 

"She left four children, two sons and two daughters; Wil- 
liam and David, who both died childless; and Elizabeth, who 
married William Burgess, and also died without issue; and 
Polly, who married David Peterson. Polly left seven children, 
four sons and three daughters, all of whom are now dead 
with the exception of a daughter. Matilda Stephens, of Attala 
County, Mississippi, and a son, John T. Peterson, with whom, 
I suppose, most of the grown people in Newberry County are 
acquainted. 

''A little lower down lived Hugh Gregg, an Irishman by 
descent and a blacksmith by trade. He was a genial, whole- 
souled man. worked diligently at his trade until about the 
year 1880. when, having acquired a tolerable com]>etency. he 
removed to what was then Pendleton District. The writer 
spent two nights with him some years ago at his home, in 
what is now Anderson County and near the Savannah Eiver, 
talking over old times, scenes and persons. He has since 
passed away, but the recollection of the two nights spent with 
the old friend, who was middle-aged when he was an infant, 
will not pass from the mind of the writer until he, too. shall 
have been numbered with the dead. 

''Just across the Saluda, and not more than live or six 
hundred yards from Cox's Fishing Place, lived William Stewart, 
whose wife was a Spraggins and. I think, a sister of old Mrs. 
Turner, spoken of above. William Stewart died before the 
recollection of the writer, but his wife, who survived him some 



ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 52S 

years, is remembered. It was at their house that the shooting 
of Ned Turner V)y the Towle.ses took place in, I suppose, 1818 
or IS 14. During the llevolution most of tlie Turners were 
tories, and the Towleses, who were also a large family and 
lived in the same neighborhood, were whigs, and it seems 
that during the struggle a most bitter feud had sprung up 
between the two families and that consideraVjle blood had been 
shed on both sides. I remember to have heard it said that 
one of the Towleses, being sick with smallpox, was concealed 
by his friends somewhere in the swamps of Saluda or Little 
River. The Turners, however, hunted him down with the 
perseverance of a sleuth hound, and that, helpless as he was 
when found, he was shot by Ned Turner. About the close of 
the Revolution Ned Turner made his escape to Florida, which 
then belonged to Spain; but about the time mentioned above 
he came to his old homo on a visit. He was very cautious 
and used all the means in his power to keep clear of the 
Towleses; but they soon heard that he was in the country 
and at once set about hunting him up. They found him at 
William Stewart's on a Sunday night and shot him. It seems 
that he was sitting in the door at the time and had no 
warning of the danger until they were within a few feet of 
him, when they fired and he fell forward on his face in the 
yard. Not doubting for a moment but that their purpose was 
accomplished they then rode away. Turner, however, was en- 
tirely unharmed and as soon as the party was out of sight 
he arose, and, getting the ball out of his cravat, declared 
that he could have made a better shot with so good a ball. 
He left the country that night and never visited it again, though 
he lived many years after and took part in the rebellion of 
Florida against Spain; was captured and imprisoned in the 
Castle of St. Augustine, where he remained for more than 
seven years and was only released after the purchase of 
Florida by the United States. 

"It seems that the habit was for the neighbors to form 
themselves into companies or stjuads of four or five and each 
squad had one day in the week to fish during the shad season. 
In this way all the neighbors living near enough could take 
part in the fishing and enjoy its advantages. Connected with 
one of these squads was Thomas liainey, an Irishman by birth^ 



524 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and of him it was told that on one occasion he was in the 
canoe to which the seine was attached when making a haul, 
and that as they approached the shore the canoe sank. 
Rainey saw the danger and called out in great alarm: 'The 
cunue is sunkin and I can't swam.' In fact he did come very 
near drowning, but was rescued by some person on the shore. 
John Tinsley, who lived not far from Rainey, was also an 
Irishman, and the two were great friends. Charleston at that 
time was the only market where the people of this section 
disposed of the tobacco and what little cotton they raised, 
and to that place the two brother Irishmen sometimes went 
together. In one of their trips as they neared the low coun- 
try they heard that there had been a good deal of stealing 
from wagons lately. So they agreed that one of them should 
stay awake each night and watch. Accordingly when bed 
time came, Tinsley inquired: 'Well, Tarn, which will you do 
the night, sleep or herd?' Rainey said he would sleep to- 
night, herd to-morrow night. The next night the same ques- 
tion was asked and the same answer given. So it turned out 
that one did all the watching and the other all the sleeping. 

"Thomas Rainey once joined the Methodist Church and 
became an exhorter, and, I believe, preached sometimes. But 
in his old age, after the loss of his wife, he fell from grace 
and became too much addicted to strong drink. He left three 
sons, William, John and Thomas. William married a Miss 
Wright and removed to the State of Tennessee. John went 
to Pendleton District and I do not know if he ever married. 
Thomas married Sally Sheppard, a sister to the late Washing- 
ton Floyd's first wife, and removed to Chambers County, Ala. 

"John Tinsley died before the recollection of the writer, but 
he has a distinct recollection of his widow, Margaret Tinsley, 
and when a small boy often heard an anecdote told of her 
that I think is mentioned in some of Judge O'Neall's writings. 
Having heard old Dr. Moon, the father of the late Dr. Peter 
Moon, preach a sermon on the Day of Judgment she ques- 
tioned him on the subject. 'You tell me, Doctor,' said she, 
'that everybody will be there on that day?' 'Yes.' 'Will that 
lying Vines Dailey be there?' 'Yes.' 'And that big bullying 
Bill Turner?' 'Yes.' 'And that big fighting Billy McGlamery?' 
^Yes.' 'Then it is sure to be a great day of rioting. Doctor, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 525 

give in my excuse; I will be there the day after.' Her two 
sons, Arthur and Jonathan, commonly called Jock, both left 
this country when I was very small and I never heard of 
them afterwards. 

"But Cox's Fishing Place has passed away, and I do not 
suppose there is a person now living who could point out the 
spot where it once was. From the tilling of the lands all 
along the river its waters have become muddy and scarcely 
fit for the production of fish, other than the cat and eel. 
Dams have been erected across the stream at various places, 
so as to entirely obstruct the passage of fish, and we would 
now almost as soon expect to find a shark or whale in the 
Saluda as a shad." 

Head's Tavern. 

"When the writer can first recollect, the place where Noah 
Martin now lives, on the road leading from Newberry Court 
House to Kinard's Ferry, was known as Head's Tavern. The 
old house stood just where the road leading from Jesse Senn's 
shop to Mendenhall's Mill crosses the Kinard's Ferry road, 
and on the right of the latter road as you go from Newberry 
towards the ferry. How the place came by the name I do 
not know, but I have always supposed that, in those days, 
when all travelers went either on horseback or on foot, and 
most persons living on public highways took in travelers, a 
man by the name of Head lived at the place, took in travelers 
and kept a tavern. 

"When the writer first knew the place there was nothing 
about it but the name to lead one to suppose there had ever 
been a tavern there. I remember several persons who lived 
there at different times, one of whom was Samuel Hogg, who 
carried on the business of a wagon maker and general Jack- 
of-all-trades. But I will say here that, unlike the ordinary 
Jack-of-all-trades, he did his work well and in a workman- 
like manner. He afterwards removed to Georgia and was 
killed by a falling tree. 

"Powell Cooper, who was the coroner of the county from 
my earliest recollection up to his death, lived about two or 
three hundred yards up the road towards Senn's, from Head's 
Tavern, and on the hill upon which W. D. Reagin now lives, 



520 ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. 

ihongh not at the saint> spot. Some years after Mr. Reagin 
came into possession of the phice he built a short distance 
higher up and on the opposite side of the road. Mr. Cooper 
was much respected by his neighbors, and I think Newberry 
has never had a better coroner. He was a phiin, unassuming 
farmer, and utterly opposed to fashion and show. H» was re- 
lated that on one occasion when some gentlemen visitors had 
ordered their shoes to be blacked, he called another servant 
and said: 'Here, take my shoes and black them with fat.' 

"His only daughter, who was in fact his only child, married 
Henry O. Sibley, who some years afterwards moved to Texas. 

"Henry Cooper lived on the Kinard's Ferry road and only 
a short half mile from Head's Tavern in the direction of 
Newberry. W. D. lleagin now owns the place, or ])erhaps 
has sold it or given it to one of his sons. Henry Cooper's 
widow married John Edmundson, of whom 1 will speak 
further on. 

"James S. Gilliam lived on the left of the Kinard's Ferry- 
road and nearly opposite Henry Cooper's. I do not know who 
tirst settled his place, but it must have been done in the olden 
time when everybody built on a branch or stream of water so 
as to be close to a spring. Mr. Gilliam was a i>lain, unos- 
tentatious gentleman and always spoke his mind without re- 
serve. He lived to be very old and always stuck to the old 
time hospitality of setting out his bottle when a friend called; 
and in doing so he never failed to take the lirst drink, to 
show, as he said, that it was not poison. If he called on a 
friend he adhered to the same rule — the host must drink first 
or he would not drink at all. His aged widow still survives 
and resides with her bx-other, our old faithful public servant, 
E. P. Lake. 

"Down the road towards Mendenhall's Mill lived James 
McCann. His house was in a flat near the spring and 
surrounded on three sides by hills, which ran down near 
the house. It had been built, however, by some former 
owner, I think a Captain Barrett. McCann was an Irish- 
man and much given to making mistakes. On one occasion 
■when loading his rifle the ball stuck fast, which he and 
his son John attempted to remove. Finding all other means 
to fail they attempted to melt it out. John was holding 



ANNALS OK NEWBERRY. 527 

tho br<;ecli of the; gun in the lin; while tbo old rnaa Htood 
by looking on. At length an explosion took jjlaco and the 
ball entered the old man's thigh and knocked him down. 
John caught him in his arms exclaiming: 'Father, father, 
are you dead':*' 'No,' .said he, 'John, but I believe I am 
Hpet^chle.sH.' 

"Some years after the death of his lirst wife, McCann 
married the widow Ann DavenjK^rt, who then lived at the 
j)lac(i where John W. Iteeder now lives near Silver Street. 
After they became engaged the old man was highly elated, 
and often said: 'Here's James McCann, the );est of man, 
who's going to wed the widow Ann.' But the marriage did 
not ])rove propitiou.s. In a short time they separated for 
good, and he removed to Holmes County, Mis.s., where he 
died. Mrs. Davenport at the time of her marriage had a 
lad, of seventeen or <'ighteen years of age, living with her, 
by the name of Levi Kodgers. During McCann's stay he 
and Kodgers had a falling out, and McCann went for him 
with the intention of giving him a whipping. Kodgers, 
however, caught up a rock and taking the old fellow square, 
in the foreh(!ad knocked him down. A kind of cross in- 
dictment followed and both were convicted; McCann for an 
assault, and Rodgors for assault and battery. McCann was 
sentenced to jail for one week and Kodgers for two. While 
in jail together they Viuried the hatchet and became great 
friends. When McCann's time was out and he was about 
to leave they hugged and kissed and cried. Said McCann, 
'Lev, it nearly kills me to leave you here. If I was allowed 
to do so, my l)oy, I would carry you out on my back.' 

"Who lir.st built on the spot vvheri; my friend Noah Martin 
now lives I have forgotten. But I remember that Capt. James 
Moore once lived there and after him Henry S. Dickert. The 
place iinally took the name of Dickertsville, and I suppose 
there are persons still living who will remember it by that 
name. After a time it was purchased by Patrick O'Farrell, 
who for a number of years carried on the mercantile business 
there with success. He Ind a sign painted over his store door 
which read: 'P. O. Farrell.' A stranger was ]):issing on one 
occasion and seeing the f-ign he sto})ped and attt uipted to 
read it. After sjielling it over several times he made it out 



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to read: 'Poor old fellow.' 'Well,' said he, 'I suppose I 
must patronize the old fellow,' so he went in and called 
for a drink. 

"Mr. O'Farrell was an Irishman and as unsophisticated 
as a child. It was told of him that on one occasion, 
while riding out a short distance from home, he became 
lost and had no idea where he was. But seeing some cows 
which he thought looked very much like his own he began 
to ride around them and halloo as if he was driving them. 
They at once started for home, which was not more than 
three hundred yards distant, and so soon led him to where 
he could see the house. His place was for many years the 
muster ground of what was known as the Dickertsville Beat 
Company, and on muster days we generally had a high old 
time. On one of these occasions two men were sitting in 
the fence corner behind the store playing cards for a dollar 
a game. Mr. O'Farrell walked out and saw them. Said 
he: 'Boys, quit that; this .sort of thing does nobody any 
good. Henry,' said he, addressing one of them by name, 
'you know that if you win the other man loses, so in the 
end there is nothing made to the community.' 

"On one occasion it was known that two of the neigh- 
bors, Bowen and Prewitt, had had a falling out and that Bowen 
had proposed to fight it out, but Prewitt demurred. So on 
the next muster day a crowd of the boys gathered around 
Prewitt and insisted on him to fight it out, informing him 
that if they saw Bowen was getting the better of him they 
would part them at once. So a ring was formed, and for 
a few moments I don't think I ever saw the fur fly in 
better style. Very soon, however, Bowen got the upper hand 
and Prewitt squealed. Just then old Mr. John Edmundson, 
who had been standing in the piazza looking on all the 
while, exclaimed: 'Part them, men! Part them, men! 
Now,' said he, 'you have egged on this thing for your own 
amusement, and now look at that young man's face! It is 
a drotted shame, and every one of you ought to be taken 
out and given fifty lashes,' The writer happened to be 
standing by one of the men who had been foremost in 
getting up the fight. Said he: 'I will give him ten dollars 
to hush.' Said another: 'I noticed that he never interfered 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 529 

till the tight was over.' Mr. Reagia happened to be near 
and he said: 'Yes, Uncle John, it is a shame and I am 
Tery sorry that it happened.' 'Yes,' said he, 'you drotted 
scoundrel, I expect you are very sorry; I believe you was 
the very rascal that got it up.' 

"Mr. Edmundson owned and lived upon the plantation 
now owned by N. B. Davenport, and when the writer first 
knew him he had accumulated quite a hand.some property. 
When a boy I think he had been apprenticed to Robert 
Evans, who was said to have been the inventor of the 
screw anger. I remember when Edmundson's augers had a 
reputation over all other makers; though, having accumulated 
a competency, he had given up work, but occasionally made 
a few augers for friends as a special favor. I expect a few 
augers might still be found in the possession of some of 
the older men in the county with the brand of Edmundson 
upon them. His last wife, which, I think, was his third, 
was the widow of Henry Cooper, and shortly after this last 
marriage he removed to Giles County, Tenn., where he died 
some years afterwards. In 1850 the. writer passed through 
that country and called on his widow, who was then a 
most genial and clever lady. His son, Isaac Edmundson, 
bought the Powell Cooper place at the sale of his estate, 
and lived upon it for a few years, but finally sold it, with 
most of his stock, and some of his negroes, to W. D. Reagin. 
He then removed to Tennessee, and settled for a time near 
Lis father, but afterwards went to Texas, where, I think, 
he died. 

"When Mr. Reagin made the purchase almost everybody 
prophesied that he could never pay. In fact I think there is 
not one man in a thousand that could have done so. But he 
fought the .situation like a hero and conquered in the end, 
and for a good many years has been looked upon as one 
of the most prosperous farmers in our county. 

"Head's Tavern is now a thing of the past, and I do 
not suppose there are a great many persons now living 
who remember that there ever was such a place." 

GoGGANs' Old Store. 

•^James Goggans, the first occupant of Goggflns' Old Store. 
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OSO ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and from whom it took its name, was, I believe, related to 
all the Gogganses in Newberry County. He was a brother 
of old Mrs. Mangum, who was the mother of the late Rev. 
Daniel Mangum, who did more to build up the Baptist 
Church in the upper part of Newberry County than any 
other man has ever done. The old store was on the road 
leading from Newberry to Laurens by way of Belfast and 
Milton, aboiTt three or four hundred yards above where the 
late Washington Floyd used to live. The writer has now 
in his possession the deed of conveyance given by James 
Goggans and Ezekiah Eastland to Stephen Herndon on t3a« 
22nd day of March, 1809, and signed by their wives, Cas- 
sandra Goggans and Elizabeth Eastland, relinquishing their 
right of dower, on the 4th of April, 1809; also a deed 
from James Goggans to Stephen Herndon, 21st of Marcli, 
1809, with relinquishment of dower by his wife, Cassandra 
Goggans, on 4th of April following. One or the other of 
these deeds, I suppose, conveyed the site of the old store. 

"The writer has the impression that James Goggans then 
lived for a time in Georgia; from there he went to Perrj 
County, Ala., and finally settled in Coosa County, where his 
two sons, William and Dr. James P. Goggans, and several 
of his daughters still reside. 

"Abram Belton merchandised for a time at the old store 
after the removal of Goggans, after which, I think, it was 
unoccupied for several years; then Cary Pitts came into 
possession and carried on the mercantile business for several 
years. But it finally passed into the hands of Washington 
Floyd, and is now the property of his grandson Lou W. 
Floyd. 

"When the writer can first remember, the muster ground 
of the Western Battalion of the 38th Regiment, the post 
office called Belmont, and the election precinct for what is 
now called Floyd's, or No. G Townshij^, was at or near the 
old store and remained there for a long time. But as the 
place fell into disuse as a place of business, all these 
passed to McConnelFs, two miles nearer to Newberry Court 
House, where A. J. Longshore now resides and still carries 
on the mercantile business. Since the war the post office 
at Belmont has been discontinued and mustering has played 
out, so there remains only the election precinct. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 



531 



"At one time the neighborhood around Goggans' Old 
Store was very populous. There were the Clelands, Butlers, 
Floyds, Andersons, Gogganses, \Yallaces, Manns, Jarrases, 
Sterlings and more Pittses than a man could count in half 
an hour. And besides these there was quite a number of 
families whose names I have now forgotten. But now al] 
is different, and white families are few and far between. 

"Capt. John Floyd, who lived near the old store, was the 
ancestor of all the Floyds. He had been a soldier in the 
Eevolution and Avas at the battle of Stono, where he com- 
manded as lieutenant, and he used to boast that he alone 
ran a large number of the British, and when urged to tell 
how he managed to accomplish such a feat he said that 
he ran and they ran after him. On one occasion his son 
Washington was very sick and making a good deal of 
complaint, sometimes calling out, 'Lord, help me!' At 
length the old man said to him: 'Come, Washington, my 
son, if you have to die, die like a man; and if you want 
help, call on some of the people you are acquainted with; 
don't call on strangers.' 

"I have said before that James Goggans was related to 
all the Gogganses, and I think he was in some Avay also 
related to the Eastlands; for I have heard it said of him 
that he used to tell one of his sons, who was inclined to 
play a great many mischievous pranks, that he was at a 
loss to tell which he took after most, 'Honest Bill' Goggans 
or Joseph Eastland. 

"Bailey Goggans, son of 'Honest Bill,' lived and died in 
the same neighborhood; and we can say with truth that no 
man was ever more universally respected by his neighbors. 
A family of his grandchildren are still living in the neigh- 
borhood of the old homestead, and I have no hesitation in 
saying that they are the peer of any family in the country. 

"When Goggans' Old Store was in its prime it was, I 
suppose, one of the most public places in the county; but 
a stranger, to see the place now, could scarcely realize that 
it once had so much life and activity; for of all the people 
who once used to rendezvous at the old store for the pur- 
pose of fun and frolic, there is not one left to tell the 
tale." 



532' ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

t 

The Murder of David Waters. 

"David Waters lived oq the road from Higgins' (now 
Kinard's) Ferry to Newberry Court House, about one mile 
from Deadfall, on the place where the widow of Edward 
Stephens now lives. He was a thoroughgoing, energetic man, 
and at the time of his death was, I suppose, the wealthiest 
man in that section of the county. He was murdered on 
the night of the 25th of February, 1819, as he was re- 
turning from a cotton gin where he was having his cotton 
prepared for market. The murder was committed on the 
side of the road between where Mr. G. Henry W^erts now 
lives and Mr. Jeff Waldrop's, and very near the residence 
of the latter. The writer was then only about five years 
old, but he remembers as if it was but yesterday hearing 
the messenger, who came after his father that night, tell 
that David Waters had been killed. The messenger was 
James Wadsworth, a free negro who lived in the same sec- 
tion for many years afterwards, and may still be remembered 
by a few old people yet living. 

"For a man to be found murdered at this day and time 
seems to attract but little attention; but at that time it 
must have been very different, for by daylight next morning 
I suppose every grown man within five miles of the place 
was on the ground, and each man constituted himself a 
committee of one to discover the murderer. The inquisition 
which was held on the next day, 26th February, 1819, by 
Powel Cooper, coroner, with David Thomas foreman of the 
jury, failed, however, to get any clue to the perpetrator; 
but it was not many days before the whole thing was 
brought to light. It was ascertained that he was killed by 
one of his own negroes, named Jerry, and that two others. 
Will and Jim, were accessories before the fact. The negro 
man, Jerry, was hung and his body burned a few yards 
from wl:ere the murder was committed. Will and Jim were 
terribly whipped and then cropped and branded. The wag- 
oner, a negro man named Ned, was also given one hundred 
lashes. But I have always thought that in his case the 
punishment was wrong. It seems that Waters and his wag- 
oner, Ned, left the gin at the same time about dark. 
Waters rode on ahead and when Ned saw him lying in 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 533 

the road he turned out iuto the woods and drove round 
him. His explanatioa was, that some time previous tc that 
he had found a man lying in the road drunk one night, 
and that he had taken him up and laid him to one side 
and then drove on; and that when he told his master, 
Waters, of the circumstance he gave him a severe reproof, 
and told him never to touch nor go near any person whom 
he might see lying in the road after dark. This story has 
always looked reasonable to me, and so I have been im- 
pressed with the idea that his punishment was not justly 
inflicted. At the sale of the property of the estate of 
Waters, Ned was purchased by a Mr. Morgan, and was 
killed some years afterward by Mark Morgan, one of his 
young masters. It appears that they were engaged in 
building a chimney, as was then quite common, with sticks 
and clay, when some dispute arose and Morgan struck him 
with one of the sticks and killed him. 

"One of the negroes, W^ill, who was implicated in the 
murder, was bought by Daniel Clary, the father of Col. 
M. W. Clary, now of Edgefield, who lived at the place on 
Saluda River where Cannon's Ferry now is. Will lived to 
be rather an old man, and died with dropsy after a long 
illness and much suffering. The other negro who was im- 
plicated in the murder was purchased by Mr. John Taylor, 
who then owned and lived on the place now owned by 
Col. John R. Leavell on Bush River. I do not know what 
became of him, but I recollect that it was said to have 
been through his agency that a circumstance happened which 
distressed the family vejy much and made quite a scandal 
in the neighborhood. 

"David Waters' wife was a Miss Elleson, by whom he 
left four children, William, David M., Daniel and Elizabeth. 
The widow married Edward Stephens and died some years 
afterwards with consumption. William Waters was killed by 
a kick from a horse, and David died a few years after- 
wards. David M. Waters will be remembered, I suppose, 
by a good many of the people of the county. He removed 
to Tennessee about the year 1844 or 1845, and was there 
killed in a row some twelve or fifteen years afterwards. 

"Elizabeth Waters married James M. Davenport and after 



534 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

his death, which happened in about 1848, she married J. D. 
Heuston, with whom she is still living in Brunswick, Ga." 

Saluda Old Town. 

"It is only a matter of conjecture with the writer how 
the place came by the name; but he has the impression 
that there was once an old Indian town there, and being 
one of the oldest towns on the banks of the Saluda Kiver 
it was accordingly called Saluda Old Town. 

"Judge O'Neall, in his Annals of Newberry, makes men- 
tion of the fact that there was once an old Indian trail 
leading from the settlement at Old Town on the Saluda, 
by way of Long's Bridge on Little River, the point where 
the C. & G. R. R. crosses that stream. Silver Street and 
Sean's Mill, to another settlement which they had on En- 
oree. The writer remembers that part of the old trail from 
Little River to Senn's Mill as being for many years the 
dividing line between the 38th and 39th Regiments of South 
Carolina Militia; persoQs living on the southeast side went 
to Lever's and those on the northwest side to Teague's 
old field to regimental muster. 

"When the writer first knew Old Town it was the property 
of Robert Dunlap and was even then very much on the wane. 
Old people, however, used to say that at one time it was 
quite a noted place. The old Charleston road, by which 
the people for many miles around carried their produce to 
Charleston, crossed the Saluda at Old Town, which was the 
only crossing place, with the exception of Island Ford, for 
many miles. This road, after crossing the river, ran down 
the Edgefield side, and nearly parallel with the river for a 
good many miles, having first, about a mile beyond the 
river, joined or united with another old road leading uj) 
Saluda from the lower country, and known as the old 
Charleston and Ninety- Six Road. It crossed the road now 
known as the Higgins' Ferry Road, or Kinard's, just at the 
old brickyard beyond where A. P. Coleman, commonly called 
Dandy, now lives. A Major Moore lived on the road a 
short distance below Old Town. I suppose it was on the 
place now owned by General Hagood, or the Bonham place, 
where he carried on quite a large mercantile business. 



ANNALS OF NEW'BEREY. 535 

"As ferries began to be established along the Saluda, 
Ihus opening up newer and better roads, Old Town began 
to decline, and I think before it passed out of the hands 
of Mr. Dunlap the ferry had been discontinued, and in a 
few years if a stranger had been told that Old Town had 
once been a considerable thoroughfare he would have been 
forced to believe that the speaker was trying to hoax him. 

"Old Town remained in obscurity for some time, but in 
the year 1852, after the G. & C. R. R. passed there, a 
depot was built at the place and a ferry across Saluda 
was re-established. But it did not succeed well as a place 
of business. It did not grow and flourish as a town, al- 
though a mineral spring, giving forth water of highly cura 
tive powers, was discovered in the immediate neighborhood, 
and a fine hotel was built for the accommodation of visitors. 
The spring dried up, the hotel failed and was sold, and 
bought by Col. M. W. Clary and removed by him to his 
Southern Saratoga, down in Edgefield near Cannon's Ferry, 
where it was soon afterwards destroyed by fire. 

"At present Saluda Old Town is a station with a depot 
on the G. & C. R. R. There are also some stores at the 
place, if I mistake not, where some business is done. Just 
across the river on the Edgefield side is General Hagood's 
Grass Farm, which is well worth a visit. It is a pleasant 
sight to ride through it when the grass is just ready for 
the mower. 

"At Saluda Old Town there was once undoubtedly a large 
Indian town, as many Indian arrow heads, pieces of pottery 
and other relics are found, or used to be found, in the 
neighborhood." 

In addition to the foregoing I may add that it was en- 
acted by Hon. Wm. Bull, Lieutenant-Governor and Commander- 
in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of South Caro- 
lina, by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's 
Council and the Commons House of Assembly of the said 
Province, and assented to on the 7th of April, 1770, that 
a public ferry be established over Saluda River at the place 
called Saluda Old Town, at the lands of Charles Carson on 
the south side of the river, to the opposite shore at the 
lands of William Turner; and that the said ferry shall be 



536 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

vested in Charles Carson, his heirs, etc., for fourteen years. 
And for any unreasonable delay in putting passengers across 
the ferry, Carson, his heirs, assigns, etc., shall forfeit and 
pay ten pounds currency, if the delay is as much as one 
hour; and if it exceeds one hour, five pounds for every 
additional hour after the first — to be recovered before a 
justice of the peace in Colleton County if sued for within 
t?in days after the offence. 

We thus see that Saluda Old Town is one of the oldest 
ferries across Saluda River in this section, and that even 
then, when the ferry was first established in 1770, it bore 
the same name it has now. In truth it was an old Indian 
town when the whites came and took possession, and so they 
called it. The road crossing Saluda Old Town passed out 
southwards through the country, crossing the old Charles- 
ton and Ninety-Six road about a mile from the river. We 
learn also that what is now Edgefield, or that part of 
Edgefield, was then part of Colleton County, and Newberry 
was in Craven County. It may be that the boundaries of 
these counties were not very well defined. 



Postscript to Cox's Fishing Place. 

The manner of Turner's escape from the Towles attacking 
party who went to kill him, as related to the writer by 
persons who were living in that neighborhood at the time 
the affair occurred, was as follows: When Turner was fired 
upon he fell in the yard as though he were dead. One 
of the party then approached him with a loaded pistol in 
his hand and was about to shoot him through the head 
when the others objected, saying that it was useless and 
barbarous to shoot a dead man. They then rode off. The 
Stewarts, Turner's friends, to conceal the fact that he was 
alive, and to facilitate his escape, procured a coflfiin next 
day, dug a grave and went through the form of burial 
The Towleses never learned of his essape until after it was 
too late to pursue him. 



annals of newberry. 537 

Hammond's Old Store, or Stoney Batter. 

In a letter to William Henry Drayton, bearing date Sep- 
tember 12th, 1775, published in Gibbes' Documentary History 
of the American Revolution, we find the following mention of 
Hammond's Old Store: "Honored Sir — The Association paper 
was delivered the 7th instant, at James Ford's, as you desired. 
There was but a small gathering — the chief of the whole were 
liberty boys. They put fourteen members up, but did not 
close the poll, while the 2()tb of this month which is ap- 
pointed, will be at Hammond's Old Store on Bush River," etc. 
In Johnston's "Traditions and Remioi.scences of the American 
Revolution," Hammond's Old Store is mentioned as being near 
Ninety Six. These expressions are used, and there is nothing 
more definite by means of which its location can now be 
identified. 

There was a battle, or skirmish, at Hammond's Store fought 
by Colonel Washington, in which he defeated and dispersed a 
body of tories, who fled to Colonel Cunningham, who was then 
posted at Williams' Fort, about thirty miles distant, on Mud- 
lick Creek, and he, apprehensive of the approach of an over- 
whelming force, hastened to Ninety-Six. 

Putting these references together, with that found in the 
history of the Cunninghams in Curiveiis Journal, I conclude 
that Hammond's Old Store, so called as far back as 1775, was 
situated at the place which has long been known as Stoney 
Batter. Stoney Batter thus becomes a place of interest in the 
history of Newberry County, as the birthplace of Governor 
James H. Hammond, son of Elisha Hammond, one of the 
greatest teachers at Mount Bethel Academy, and as one of the 
battle-grounds of our Revolutionary struggle. 

I have in my possession a piece of writing bearing date 
May 6th, 1815, and written and signed by "E. Hammond," 
Principal of Mount Bethel School. 

Judging from the name, Stoney Batter was evidently so 
called from its peculiar surroundings. It is situated on a 
stony eminence on the Holly's Ferry Road, about two and a 
half miles from the town of Prosperity, in former times called 
Frog Level. The stones which lie on the surface in very 
great numbers are of the species commonly known as flint 
rocks. 



538 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 



It was here that Governor James H. Hammond was born 
and reared; and here he received his primary education. He 
was a graduate of the South Carolina College, prepared for 
admission under his father at the celebrated school at Mount 
Bethel. 

After the removal of the Hammonds, Dr. Francis Hatton 
came to Stoney Batter; for awhile living there and practicing 
medicine. His practice not being as lucrative as he desired, 
he moved West and was succeeded by Dr. James Kilgore. 
Dr. Kilgore became very popular and had a large practice, 
enjoying the entire confidence of the people, which he deserved 
and held as long as he lived. Not long after he came to 
Stoney Batter he and Col. John Hair, who was a man of some 
means, formed a partnership and engaged in the mercantile 
business. A prominent feature of "the store" was the "gro- 
cery," or "grogery," attached; and in connection with this was 
established a distillery on a branch near by. Dr. Kilgore, at 
that time thinking that the distillation of peaches into brandy 
would be a lucrative business, planted about twenty acres in 
peaches. About the time the trees began to bear he was con- 
verted and joined the Methodist Church. He then destroyed 
his distillery and cut down his fruit trees, which he had 
planted and nurtured for a purpose which his awakened con- 
science no longer approved. He became a local preacher in 
the Methodist Church. I do not think he was ever on the 
circuit. He married a daug}^ter of Col. John Summers. He 
settled near Ebenezer Church, where he reared a large and 
respectable family, some of whom, daughters only, (May, 1892), 
still survive. Andrew J. Kilgore, a son of his, a man much 
loved, has only recently died at the home near Ebenezer, 
where he was born. Dr. Kilgore died some years before his 
wife. Her I knew well, and I think her face was one of the 
most chastened, sweetest and most angelic I ever saw. 

It is said that the mercantile firm of Kilgore & Hair was 
not a decided success. Kilgore sold his interest to Fred 
Boozer, and Hair & Boozer became the successors to Kilgore 
■& Hair; and they lost their entire stock of goods and gro- 
ceries by an incendiary fire. After their misfortune John 
Cannon opened a store at the Battery without the gi-ocery 
feature. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEIlRTC. 



539 



About this time Frog Level began to outrival the "Batter" 
and it began to lose its former prestige. Business, however, 
continued there in a small way until 1872, when "Bill" Davis 
(who was said to be a Red River man), who was running an 
illicit distillery in an excavation under his house, conveying 
the smoke from the furnace in flues to the chimney, was 
routed by revenue officers, and "Stoney Batter," except in 
name and traditions, passed into oblivion. 

Seventy-five years ago Stoney Batter was noted for its 
game of "long bullets," shooting matches, fisticuffs, etc. For 
the ed'fication of the present and succeeding generations it is 
necessary to explain. Long bullets was an innocent muscular 
pastime, and was engaged in by two or any greater number 
of persons at one time. The "bullets" were small cannon 
balls of twelve or twenty-four pounds weight, and were thrown 
on a level surface with all the muscular force of the arm of 
the man throwing. This writer has often seen this game 
played, but he never had sufficient muscular power to be a 
successful player. He was the winner who threw and rolled 
the ball farthest. 

Shooting matches were of frequent occurrence and were 
greatly enjoyed by nearly everybody in that day. A beef was 
provided; a valuation was placed upon it, and then the 
"shootists" proceeded to make up the amount at, say seven- 
pence, 12J cents, per "shoot." The beef was usually divided 
into eight choices. The shooting at that day was usually 
done at a distance of sixty yards, aud with old time sporting 
or squirrel rifles. The man whose ball struck nearest the 
centre of the target was entitled to first choice, and so on. 
Some of these old men, by frequent practice, attained a won- 
derful degree of accuracy with the rifle; so great was it that 
nothing but a centre shot would get beef. Of course the 
companionable half pint was always on hand and not unfre- 
quently at such times was the precursor if not the instigator 
of a fisticuff. Neither knives nor })istols were used or known 
in fisticuff's. After a fight, which usually continued until one 
of the parties cried out "enough," it was customary for the 
combatants to get the half pint and make friends. 

It is a remarkable fact that in these "long bullet"' game.s, 
shooting matches, and even fisticuff's, no foiil play was ever 



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540 ANKALh OF NEWBERRT. 

permitted; and woe to iiie r il^w A^ho would attempt such a 
thing. Ever3^thing was conducted on. a high plane of honesty 
and integrity. 

These old games and amiisements, which once made Stoney 
Batter famous, have passed into obscurity, and now churches, 
school houses, Sunday-schools, factories, etc., have taken their 
places; and the country, which was then sparsely settled, is 
now almost a continuous village. 

But young folks and college boys have their games and 
athletic sports yet, and I hope always will have them. 



The Hammond Family. 

Wishing to be sure of certain facts, I wrote to Harry 
Hammond, Esq., of Beech Island, and in reply to mine I 
received the following letter, which I hope the readers of the 
Annals will find of interest: 

Beech Island, S. C, 
18th May, 1892. 
John A. Chapman, Newberry, S. C: 

Dear Sir: Replyinjj to your letter of the 16th, let me say my grand- 
father, Elisha Hammond, descended from William Hammoad of London, 
(whose eon Benjamin immigrated to Sandwish, Mass., in 1634); was born 
at New Bedford, Mass., 10th October, 1774; graduated at Dartmouth, in 
Daniel Webster's class; came to South Carolina in 1802; taught in South 
Carolina College in 1803; married in 1806. My father was born in 
Newberry County in 1807. I once passed a place called Stoney Batter 
and an old gentleman, in whose company I was, pointed to the spot 
where the house had stood in which my grandfather lived, and said he 
had seen my father, a boy of six years, riding on an ox there. I think 
it quite likely my grandfather kept store there, for he tried a great many 
occupations in his time, and I remember my father's saying that he 
recollected seeing several teams unloading goods at his home in New- 
berry, which had been hauled all the way from Philadelphia, where they 
had carried cotton to market. 

But this store could have had no connection with the Hammond's Old 
Store of 1775. INIy grandfather was the first of his family to come to 
Carolina, and was followed some years later by his brother, Dr. Ebenezer 
Hammond. 

* * -A- * » * * + * 

You are right in saying my father was James H. Hammond. 
Very truly yours, 

Harry Hammond. 



annals of newberby. 541 

Feog Level. 

The following was contributed by Mr. U. B. Whites: 

"Name uncouth — name seemingly without meaning. It is 
impossible to trace the name or its meaning to any satisfac- 
tory origin. There is a tradition, however, which says that 
the place received the name of Frog Level ion<j before there 
was any settlement made at the place. As late as 1830 there 
was a pond of water where the Prosperity ginnery now stands, 
near the depot on the C, N. & L. R. R. This pond was 
infested with innumerable frogs, the surrounding surface 
being quite level. The legend says that an old man became 
intoxicated, and lay down at the edge of this pond and went 
to sleep. He awoke, and, still being stupefied by whisksy, the 
frogs were croaking, and in this dazed condition he imagined 
the frogs were crying out 'frog level!' frog level!' and he 
repeated it, and from this incident the pond or place was 
called Frog Level, which name as a place and a postoffice 
it retained imtil the year 1873, when, by a petition of a ma- 
jority of its citizens, the Legislature changed the name to 
Prosperity. 

"The first building erected at Frog Level was built by 
Capt. Matthew Hall, about 1830. He built a small dwelling 
and a little log store 12x16 feet. In this first store the half 
pints and pints were the principal articles of merchandise. 
Major Graham built the next house, and used a part of the 
lumber which was in Captaia Hall's house. This dwelling is 
still standing, a monument to the olden times, and is occupied 
by William A. Moseley. 

"Soon after Captain Hall built his store, David Kibler 
opened a store near bis house, on the site where A. M. Wyse 
now has a beautiful residence. About this time Charles 
Stewart, a school teacher, came to Frog Level and taught 
school successfully. Unfortunately the poor fellow was ad- 
dicted to strong drink and soon fell a victim to its influence. 
Samuel Moore, William Bridges, Henckle,' Mower, Wicker, 
L. C. Kibler and others followed in the mercantile business. 

"Like Stoney Batter, Frog Level was noted for its games 
of 'long bullets' and shooting matches in its early r'ays. As 
a place for whiskey drinking it had always occupied a position 
in the front rank, from the time Captain Hall built the first 



542 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



store, about 1830, until in the year 1881, when, at the recjuest 
of a large majority of its citizens, the Legislature }>assed a 
bill prohibiting the sale of all alcoholic liquors in any shape 
or form whatever. 

"On the night of July otli, 1873, the entire business portion 
of the town, except one store — that of H. S. Boozer & Co. — ■ 
was destroyed by fire. On account of some disagreement of 
the property holders, concerning the laying off of certain 
streets, the town was not rebuilt on the old site. 'New Town' 
sprung up near by, which consisted of eight or ten stores. 
This state of affairs la8t(?d nearly ten years, when the mer- 
chants began to rebuild substantial business houses on the old 
site; and now there are six large brick stores and a number 
of wooden ones on the old site. 

"Prosperity, as its name indicates, is a prosperous and 
growing town, with a good, staunch, Christian citizenship. 
There are situated here four churches — Lutheran, Associate 
Reformed Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist — with two Meth- 
odist and one Baptist Church for the colored people. There 
are also two steam ginneries, one fruit and vegetable canning 
factory, one flouring and grist mill, one high school, two 
blacksmith and wheelright shops and one brick manufacturing- 
company; also one investment and improvement comjiany and 
one bank. These things have taken the place of 'long bullets,' 
shootinor matches and bar-rooms." 



Chappells and Upper Newberry. 

About the year 1750 the Chappells came into the upper 
part of Newberry and settled on the north side of Saluda, 
while the Culbreaths, who came with them, or about the same 
time, crossed the river and settled on the south side. It is 
said that the Chappells were also Scotch, or of Scotch descent; 
but from the name I would rather suppose them to be French. 

In my younger days I was well acquainted with Mr. John 
Chappell, grandfather of John Henry and John W., who have 
both made their homes at Newberry for a number of years. 
Mr. Chappell owned the ferry on Saluda known as Chappell's 
Ferry. I think it has been Chappell's Ferry ever since it was 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 543 

established as a ferry by any name. Mr. Chappell carried on 
mercantile business for many years and made money, and 
became quite wealthy. The terry itself was worth considerable 
in those dnjf:. Hamburg was a great place of trade, and 
Chappell's Ferry was on one of the great leading highways 
from Laurens and the up country to that cotton market, which 
was for a groat many years one of the best in the State. 

Old Mr. John Chappell had one brother only, and he was 
killed by Cunningham in his celebrated raid of 1781; and 
the ferry was kept during the Revolutionary war by John 
Chappell's mother, she herself acting as ferryman. 

Efforts have been made to make Chappell's Depot, on the 
G. & C. R. R., a place of business, but with only moderate 
success. There are some stores there and considerable business 
is done. On the 19th of February, 1884, the great cyclone 
or tornado struck it and swept the whole concern away. 
Some persons were killed and others very seriously injured. 
Mr. Wash Boazman was very badly broken up and it was 
many weeks before he was able to walk at all; and at this 
time, 1892, though eight years have passed since the storm, 
he is still unable to walk without the assistance of a crutch. 

Leaving the river and passing out from Chappells a few 
miles brings us to the place once owned and occupied by Mr. 
Foster Weils, one of the old settled places before the days of 
the Revolution. Further on we come to Vaughanville, where 
lived, when this writer first knew the place, Drury Vaughan, 
who was then an old gentleman and was quite wealthy. 
From him my . old friend and schoolmate, Drurj^ V. Scurry, 
got his name — Drury Vaughan Scurry. He died several 
years ago, and his son-in-law, Mr. Joseph G. Jenkins, now 
lives at the old homestead, and io. addition to his farm 
conducts a mercantile business. Spring Grove Meeting 
House was not far away and above Vaughanville, but that, I 
believe, is in Laurens County. It was through this country 
that General Greene, in his retreat from Ninety-Six, passed, 
crossing at the Island Ford. It was at Williams' Fort on 
Mudlick that Cunningham was stationed, and from which he 
hastily decamped when he heard of the defeat and rout of 
the tories at Stoney Batter by Colonel Washington. All that 
upper part of Newberry adjoining Laurens was near the home 



544 ANXALS OF NEWBERHT. 

of the Cunninghams and Williamses — one taking the tory and 
the other the whig side. Not far from the upper Newberry 
line was Hayes' Station, the scene of Bloody Bill's most bloody 
triumphs. Since those old bloody days no hostile foot has 
-ever tramped upon Mudlick, or Little River, or any other of 
the streams that flow downwards to the sea, giving fertility 
to the soil. Though no hostile armies have ever marched 
through there, yet, in the late unpleasantness from 1861 to 
1865, many gallant men turned out from that section of 
-country and gave their lives for the Confederate cause. 
Their names are all recorded elsewhere in this book and 
need not be repeated here. 

I used to know an old gentleman, and a very worthy man 
he was, who lived near the Laurens line, named Ephraim 
Andrews. I had the plea.sure of passing one night at his 
house many years ago when I was young. He was then old, 
or seemed so to me, had married a second wife and had sev- 
eral children, merry little fellows, running and playing about 
whom he threatened dreadfully, but whom he never hit, 
though he had a switch in his hand the whole time. He was 
a good man and they were good boys and understood each 
-other. 

Moon's Meeting House, mentioned in the notice of Rev. 
William Harmon, is not far, or was not far, from Chappells. 
When this writer lirst knew that country that house was 
standing and was used as a place of worship. In fact I 
think I once attended divine service in that house. By the 
way, writing of Moon's Meeting House makes me think of it. 
It is said that a house — a dwelling house — not far away is 
haunted, and has been haunted, by something uncanny for a 
great many years; whether ghosts or spirits of the departed, 
vor what, this deponent saith not. I have heard of other 
houses in the same fix. In fact I went to see and investigate 
a house in Edgefield County once, but I made nothing by it, 
though the ghost was about. 

John Hopkins Williams and the Rudds lived not far from 
-Chappells and were all men of wealth. Indeed all the upper 
part of the county from the Saluda to the Rich Hill place, 
flately owned by Mr. F. H. Dominick, was once in the early 
-days of the county and until the war of Secession one of the 



ANNALS OF NEWEERRY. ~)iT) 

fairest, richest aud lovolipst parts of the county, or of the 
State, or of the world. 

Chappell's Ferry is now (jv/ned V)y Mr. William K. Smith, 
son of an old acquaintance and .schoolmate of this historian^ 
at the celebrated school at Mount Enon in Edgefield County. 
It was Mr. Smith's mother who was there, not his father. J 
knew his father also, but after bis marriage. Miss Cornelia 
Boazman, now Mrs. Irwin, was a lovely and intelligent girl, 
amiable and good; and was born and reared near Chappell's 
Ferry. Her brother, John B. Boazman. it has been told to 
me, was one of the best men in Nenberry County. Their 
mother was a Scurry. 

I have recently been informel, and the information is au- 
thentic, that Mr. Smith, the owner of Chappell's Ferry, has 
friveu it with all its rights and hereditaments as his contribu- 
tion towards the erection of a free bridge at Chappells over 
the river. 

In the neighborhood of Cha})pells once lived Mr. \\'illiam 
Watkins, John Watkins, Dr. J. O. Dickert and Andrew Lee 
Lark, all good and true men. Mr. George T. Raid, merchant 
at the Depot, now owns a great deal of land in that section 
— several thousand acres — amongst others land once owned by 
Mr. Lark and that of Capt. James N. Lipscomb. 

Like the changes in a dream we come and go. We lie 
down to sleep, but the work goes on forever, forever, forever, 
forever. 



WPHTMIIEi. 

Continuing our route along the Laurens and Newberry line, 
wo come after awhile to the new and flourishincr town of 
Whitmires, which takes its name from the old and respectable 
family of Whitmires, which was amongst the earliest settlers 
of that part of the county; that is to say, one hundred and 
twenty-five to a hundred and fifty years ago. W^hitmires is 
on the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Road, and is a flourish- 
ing business place with eight or ten stores (the first store was 
opened by Spearman & Tidmarsh, November, 1890), a school 
and divine service twice each month. As yet there is no 
church building, but I am assured that there soon will be. 
2 N 



546 AXNALS OF NEWBERET. 

In August, 1800, the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad 
was completed through this section, thus giving it connection 
with the great world North and South and West. The town 
is about central between Newberry, Clinton and Union, being 
about eighteen miles from each. 

About six miles from Whitmires, in the direction towards 
Newberry, lives the Hon. John W. Scott, on the same lands 
which his grandfather settled when he came from Ireland 
about one hundred years ago. How many of us can say that 
we live upon and own the lands upon which our fathers 
settled when they came to Carolina from the old world, or 
across the country from the colonies of Virginia and Pennsyl- 
vania ? 

During the unpleasantness of from 1800 to 1800, "Whitmires, 
and the neighborhood, was not backward in duty and in fur 
nishing the full quota of men required in the country's 
defence. Their names are all recorded elsewhere in this book. 
And it would give this writer great pleasure to make note of 
any special acts of heroism or daring performed by any one. 
But when every Confederate soldier, from the very fact of his 
being a Confederate soldier, was expected to be without fear, 
it becomes very difiticult to find one who was the bravest of 
the brave. 

The country above Beth Eden is broken and rolling, but 
the soil is fertile and productive, and there is no reason why 
the inhabitants of that part of the count}^ should not be 
prosj)erous and happy, as, indeed, I am well assured that the 
most of them are. How is it possible for people to be other- 
wise who are blessed with a genial climate and fertile soil, 
and who are God-fearing and religious":' 

The town was incorporated in 1891, and the sale of intoxi- 
cants as beverages was prohibited by the Act of Incorporation. 
The first City Council was composed of John P. Fant, Mayor; 
Aldermen: H. E. Todd, Dr. R. R. Jeter, Charles Tidmarsh 
and B. F. Morrow. The first election was held in January, 
1892. 



Maybinton. 
By reference to the first part of this work — pages loO-o 
it wi'.l be seen that this place, one of considerable importance 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 547 

in the county for many years, derived its name from Colonel 
Benjamin Maybin, son of William Maybin, who settled there 
soon after the year 1771. Col. Benjamin Maybin was born in 
1775. William Maybin, the settler of 1771, left three sons, 
Robert, Jesse and Benjamin — the Col. Benjamin from whom 
Maybinton derives its name. Jesse, the father of A. G. Maybin, 
served on the staff of General Jackson at the buttle of New 
Orleans. 

Maybinton for many years was a lovely little village, where 
refined and intelligent peojile made their homes, and which 
was surrounded by a fruitful and well cultivated country. 
Being the centre of a rich and flourishing .section, with good 
schools, and somewhat remote from the County Seat, it became 
the Capital to the surrounding country, and often public 
meetings were held there to take into consideration important 
aflPairs, such as pertained to the State at large. P. C. Caldwell 
received his nomination for Congress by a convention held 
there in 1840. 

The writer did not know Col. Benjamin Maybin, so enthu- 
siastically mentioned and written of by Judge O'Neall ; but for 
many years he knew and honored A. G. Maybin — son of Jesse 
and grandson of Colonel Benjamin commonly known as "Bert," 
as a man of sterling integrity and worth. Bert Maybin was 
born and roared at Maybinton, where he lived until after the 
war of Secession, when he moved to Newberry and engaged 
in mercantile business with Col. Robert Moorman until the 
death of Colonel Moorman caused a cessation of the business. 
At the time of Mr. Maybin's death, and for some time before,, 
he was engaged in superintending and conducting a Dairy 
Farm at Newberry, now owned and managed by Silas J. Mc- 
Caughrin. 

The situation of Maybinton was one well adapted to make 
it a place of great local importance — on Broad River between 
the Enoree and Tyger. By way of Broad River, which was 
navigable for flat boats, the inhabitants could send, and did 
send, large quantities of cotton and other produce to the 
markets below. I have seen such boats on the bosom of 
Broad River. A flat boat loaded with cotton moving down 
the river would be a rare and novel sight now, with a train 
of rail cars sj^eeding up or down on the north bank. 



548 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Sinc8 O'Neall wrote his Annals, and especially since the war, 
great changes have taken place at Maybinton, as in other parts 
of the county. The parts of the county which Avere richest, 
when the old system of labor was destroyed, suffered most. 
May])inton section did not entirely escape, though there is still 
a considerable degree of prosperity, and the people are slowly 
b\;t surely recuperating. There, as well as everywhere else, 
we find that there is life in the old land yet. Maybinton is 
near the birthplace and early home of the celebrated Emily 
(loin-er. 



POMAEIA. 

Continuing our circuit review of the county I conclude with 
a brief sketch of Pomaria and of its people. The Pomaria 
Postoffice in the Southeastern part of the county was estab- 
lished about the year 1840. The name Avas given by Mr. 
William Summer, the founder and proprietor of the Pomaria 
Nui'series, which were so long and so favorably known through- 
oat the country. Mr. Summer, if I mistake not, was the first 
Postmaster. About the year 1850 the Postotfice was moved to 
where the present town of Pomaria now is on the completion 
of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad to that point. Wil- 
liam Summer was Postmaster and Thomas W. Holloway (who 
is, in 1892, P. M.) Assistant. 

J. A. Folk & Sons did a large business as merchants at 
Pomaria until the year 1855, when they were succeeded by 
Thomas W. Holloway and his brother-in-law. H. H. Folk, who 
continued until Secession and the war. 

After the war Thomas W. Holloway and Ilayne D. Reid 
formed a copartnership and carried on a large and lucrative 
business, until the murder of Reid and the burning of the 
house with the body of the murdered man in it by the assassin, 
Thompson, on the 24th of December. 1875. Thompson confessed 
the crime and was hanged. The burning of the house and 
the goods in it entailed a heavy loss upon the firm. 

The next mercantile house established at this place was 
that of D. A. Dickert and David Hipp. They were succeeded 
by D. Hipp & Co. E. R. Hipp, now (181)2) of Columbia, rep- 
resented the company. Upon the dissolution of this firm Mr. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 540 

Wm. T. Hat'oa took the })lace of E. 11. Hipp, and the lirni 
name, D. Hipp & Co., still stands. 

A store housa was built by Thomas W. Holloway and bis 
SOD, J. B. O'Neall Holloway, in 1878, and they carried on the 
mercantile business together until the fall of 1889, when the 
stock of goods on hand was sold to E. R. Hipp, son-in-law of 
the senior member of the firm. The junior member, having 
married in Orangeburg, moved to that county, near Foit ^lotte, 
and engaged in farming. 

Mr. Hipp continued the business until the 14th of January. 
3891, when the store was burned with a large stock of goods, 
entailing a heavy loss on Mr. Hipp. 

J. William Stone in 1889 built a store house in the town 
and was carrying on business there, when his house and goods 
were burned at the same time. 

' Among the eai4iest settlers of Pomaria and the neighbor- 
liood was the family of Summer. John Adam Summer — 1 
think is the name — came across the country from Pennsyl- 
vania. The country traveled by him was then almost an un- 
broken wilderness peopled by several different tribes of Indians. 
Wherever he went, whatever tribe or family of natives he met 
with, he always received the heartiest and warmest welcome. 
And when he reached bis destination, the natives there were 
waiting for him, extended him a friendly greeting and made 
him feel at home. Rumors of kindness he had shown to some 
Indians in Pennsylvania preceded him, and runners were sent 
on ahead to tell the tale and to give notice of his coming. 

John Summer was the father of John, Nicholas, Henry, 
Adam, William, Thomas and Miss Catharine P. These are all 
gone, except Miss Catharine. John and Nicholas 1 never knew. 
Nicholas was killed in the Seminole war in Florida; John 
went down there to bring the body home and he took sick 
and died in Florida without being able to accomplish his mis- 
sion. Elsewhere in this book an interesting anecdote is re- 
lated of Dr. King and Nicholas Summer. Henry was a lawyer 
at Newberry whom everybody knew and respected. Towards 
the close of the war of Secession, Kilpatrick raiders burnt his 
home in the lower part of the county, with his valuable libra- 
ry, and hung him up by the neck to the limb of a tree in 
the effoi-t to make him tell where he had his money con- 



550 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRT. 

cealed, of which they imagined he had an immense amount. 
He had none concealed and they at length released him. 
Adam was a man of great and versatile genius. He left one 
child, who lives in Florida. "William never married, but might 
be called the father of Pomaria and the Pomaria ]Surseries. 
Henry Summer left three children, only two of whom were 
alive in ISO'2, his son John Adam, and daughter Catherine, 
who is ha])pily married to Kev. J. F. Kiser, a Lutheran min- 
ister. John Adam owns the homestead of his grandfather, 
John Summer. The other daughter of Henry Summer, Mary, 
married Dr. J. K. Chapman. At her death she left three 
children, one daughter and two sons. Thomas Summer, the 
youngest brother of Henry Summer, I knew for awhile in his 
youth. He died early. He was a student, I think, in some 
German university. 

The late John A. Folk owned the land upon wbicli the town 
of Pomaria was built. He died in 1855, leaving three sons 
and two daughters, J. D. A., Dr. H. M., H. H., Martha, the 
wife of Thomas W. Holloway, and Eustatia, half-sister of the 
above, who was married to John David Wedeman. who died 
leaving two sons. 

Solomon Suber, who resided where Dr. J. A. Berly afterwards 
lived, left four children, John W., who moved to Florida after 
the war, where he has since died; Major Christian H. Suber, 
also now deceased, a lawyer at Newberry, who was so long 
and so favorably known socially, not only in his native county, 
but also throughout this State, and I may justly add, the 
United States, ~at least in many others besides his own. 
Christian Suber was a man of more than ordinary ability; of 
mild and amiable deportment and averse to strife. He gave 
by will three thousand dollars for benevolent purposes — two 
thousand dollars to Newberry College and one thousand for 
the purpose of assisting in rebuilding the Lutheran Church 
at Newberry. He had two sisters; Ann C, who was married 
to the late Walter F. Ruff- they both died before the war, 
leaving no children. The other sister, Lavinia C, was first 
married, to George Ruff, who died before the war, leaving one 
son, John S. ; since the war she has become the wife of George 
Burder Boozer and they make their home in the town of 
Newberry. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 551 

John Folk, the original of the family of that name, resided 
a short distance from the site of the town on Tanner's Hill, 
known to wagoners prior to 1850 as Folk's Hill. It has been 
said that when wagoners left home with wagons loaded with 
cotton or tobacco for market in Charleston if they succeeded 
in getting up Folk's Hill they would have no more trouble. 
Mr. Folk left two children by his first marriage, John A. and 
a daughter who became the wife of David Cannon and the 
mother of John A. Cannon. By a second marriage there were 
five children who grew to maturity: John Wesley, David and 
Levi E. — daughters Elizabeth Graham and Eve Busby, mother 
of Prof. D. B. and Rev. L. E. Busby, one a teacher of youth 
and the other a Lutheran minister. 

Dr. John A. Berly, who owned and lived and died at the 
■Solomon Suber place, as already mentioned, left two sons, 
John Eusebius and W. W. Berly. John Eusebius died un- 
married. He was a young man honored and respected by all 
who knew him; of great ability, and preached the gospel 
with great power and effect. Those who knew him from his 
infancy speak of him as having been blameless in all respects. 
After his graduation from Newberry College in June, 187U, 
he read medicine and practiced for awhile, a year or two, 
after taking his degree, when he became deeply impressed 
with the feeling that it was his duty to devote himself and 
his life to preaching the gospel. He accordingly prepared 
himself for that work, studied in the Theological Seminary in 
Philadelphia and graduated with distinction. He was called 
to the ninth pastorate of the Lutheran Synod in the Fork, in 
which charge he continued until his death on the I'.lth of 
July, ISUO. 

W. W. Berly is the owner of the old homestead and is 
giving his undivided attention to the line farm which he in- 
herited. 

Dr. John A. Berly, the father of these young men, Avas a 
kind and obliging neighbor. He was assiduous in the practice 
of his profession for more than forty years. No man was 
more charitable, kind and attentive, going at all hours, and 
often to a great distance, to give relief to suffering humanity, 
when he knew that he would receive no pecuniary recompense 
for his labor. He was always ready and willing to assist with 



5o2 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

his means all benevolent and charitable objects. His place it 
will be difficult to fill. He never used tobacco, nor alcoholic 
drinks, because he knew from the study of physiology and 
from observation the evil effects resulting from their use. 

Chri.stian Suber was another Ol the old landmarks and re- 
sided within a half-mile of the site of the present town of 
P.omaria, long before the Railroad was built. He was engaged 
in the mercantile business and farming. Mr. Saber accumulated 
a fortune; he ^grew rich and earned and secured the reward 
due to his wonderful energy and perseverance. His wifc^ was 
Caroline Counts, daughter of Jacob Connts. Three sons and one 
daughter survived him, viz.: John D., George' Benedict, J. Benson 
and Isabella Eleazer, who was first married to Philander Cromer, 
who was killed fn battle during the war of. Secession. -Re- 
becca, the eldest of the children, married James A. Welch, 
and by this lanion two sons and two daughters survive. One 
of these is Professor C. W. Welch, Avho has filled various 
professional chairs and has recently been elected Professor of 
Physics in Clemson College. 

Thomas W\ Holloway is still living as I compile these Annals. 
In the building of the Greenville and Columbia Railroad he was 
appointed Agent at Hope Station, Pomaria, Prosperity and New- 
berry, successively, as the Road advanced. While Agent at New- 
berry he was elected Cashier of the Bank of Newberry, which 
position he held until 1855, when he resigned and removed to 
Pomaria and engaged in the mercantile business. He was 
the Secretary of the State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry 
for many years. He was also connected with the State Agri- 
cultural and Mechanical Society from 1857 to the breaking out 
of the war. The Society was reorganized after the war and 
he occupied the first position of the Society under the late D. 
Wyatt Aiken. In 1875 Col. Aiken declined reelection to the 
position of Secretary and Mr. Holloway was elected. He has 
lieen re-elected eaeh succeeding year to the present, 181)2. 

Postscript. 

The compiler of these Annals first saw Henry Summer just 

after his admission to the Bar, when he was about to start to 

Alabama to hunt a new home in a new region and practice 

his profession there. He and my father went to Alabama to- 



ANNALS UF NEWBERRY. 553 

getlicr. riding oi horseback Cliraubers County, Ala., had just 
been thrown o})en to settlers, the Indian titles to the lands 
having been extinguished, and the Indians themselves having 
nearly all been removed further Westward. 

My father had a mild attack of Western fever, went to 
Alabama, entered som3 Government land, which he afterwards 
sold without ever hiving moved to it. On the outset of the 
trio, according to previous arrangement. Mr. Summer came to 
my father's house, remained all night with him and they set 
out next day together on a horseback journey of several hun- 
dred mile^. Mr. Summer found a suitable location at Talla- 
d(^ga. Ala., wher^^ he remained until the death of his brother 
Xicliolas (who was a lawyer at Newberry) in the Seminole v/ar. 
wlien he returned to Newberry; his brother Nicholas having 
left him a valuable Law Library on that condition. 

I have often heard my father tell one anecdote of their trip 
through Georgia. It was during the days of Nullification and 
the high tariff, when political excitement ran high, as 1 be- 
lieve it always does in this country. One night their land- 
lady, who was a woman of very decided opinions, and very 
decided in her manner of expressing them, caused my father 
to remark to her: "Madam, I perceive that you and your 
husband differ in your politics."' "Yes, indeed," she said, 
"we differ in our politics and a good many other 'tics' besides.'' 



Saiokey Town. 

The origin of this name is lost in the mists of antiquity,^ 
l)ut the place itself is well known and lies in the Southern 
part of Stoney Batter Township and was originally settled by 
the Bankses, Snelgroves, Kinards and Mannings. 

"Seventy years ago," says Esquire P. W. Counts, "Smokey 
Town was the worst place in Newberry District. John Kinard 
had a whiskey distillery which was a constant rendezvous for 
bacchanalian rowdyism. This lawlessness has been inherited 
in a few families and has come down to the present genera- 
tion. It is only a few years since Smokey Town has been 
freed entirely from the curse oC the midnight brawler and 
marauder. 

"The Longs, Koons, Pughs, Garrets, Boozers, and many 
others, who compose a g^od, sturdj^, staunch and quiet citi- 



554 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 

zenry, reside in that section now. Instead of the 'still house,' 
those good people have Betliel Church, Baptist; Mount Olivet, 
Lutheran; and O'Neall Academy, named in lionor of Judge 
O'Neall. 

"Instead of repairing to the still house on Sunday the people 
go to their respective places of worship. Prayer meetings and 
songs of praise have killed off" and stilled forever the sounds 
of midnight revelry and debauchery. Midnight is no longer 
rendered hideous by the yells and shouts of drunkenness; biTt 
the stars rise and set undisturbed by the songs of Bacchus. 
Smokey Town is no longer smoky. The name and place re- 
main, but the smoke has departed.'' 

Our old friend, Squire P. W. Counts, in a quiet, dreamy 
mood continued his reminiscences. It is pleasant at times to 
meet with one of these old patriai'chs and listen to his talks 
of times and people long since become historical, or, perhaps, 
only occasionally mentioned by the faint and feeble voice of 
tradition. It makes one feel as though he were sitting and 
listening to tlie gossij) of tradition on the shores of old 
romance: 

"From a point at Calk's Ferry Koad, about three miles 
South of Prosperity, where Fred Stockman now lives, begins 
the Ridge Road. This road leads by the Elmore place, and 
on to and beyond Schumpert's Mills. It was once known and 
recognized as the 'dead line' between the Dutch and Irish 
settlers; It was considered a high crime and misdemeanor 
for an Irishman or Dutchman to cross this dead line. South 
of this line lived the Dominicks, Boozers, Fellows (now Fel- 
lers), Bedenbaughs (formerly Peterbocks), Schumperts, Countses, 
Harmons and others, who composed the Dutch settlement. 
Xorth of this line were the Youngs, Browns, McQueers, Haw- 
kinses, Thompsons, Lindseys, Carmichaels, Capt. Matthew Hall 
and others, who composed the Irish settlement. 

"A few examples will illustrate the strong feeling that ex- 
isted, and how im})ortant they felt it was that eacli party 
should keep on its own side of the line: On one occasion one 
of the McQueers, Charlie Thompson and Nathan Young, of 
the Irish party, each bought a tract of land which lay South 
of the line in the Dutch settlement. As soon as they realized 
what they had done they sold out as speedily as possible and 
returned to their Irish brethren. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. i. 

"Capt. Matthew Hall, a gay young Irisliman, was casting 
about for a partner for life with some means, not less than a 
thousand dollars. Miss Polly Schumpert, a noble daughter of 
a Dutch sire, filled his bill, and by stealth ho ventured across 
the dead line, secured his coveted prize and carried her away 
to live amongst the Irish. A wail of horror and indignation 
arose among those good Germans because 'Hall had cum und 
sthole avay dere Dudtch Bolly.' 

"The climax of indignation was reached when George Dom- 
inick took vengeance upon the Irish by crossing the line and 
stealing away Miss Sallie Hunter and making her his Irish- 
Dutch wife. From this marriage we have to-day a large 
number of auburn-haired Dominicks, who are most excellent 
citizens. 

"After the excitement and feeling caused by these raids had 
subsided it was found that the force of the dead line was 
materiall}' weakened, and a better feeling between the Irisli 
and Dutch began to prevail. They married and intermarried, 
and exchanged business relations with each other, until now 
as a result of these man-iages we have a Dutch-Irisli and an 
Trish-Dutch citizenry, which, for honesty of purpose, hardi- 
hood, thrift, economy and perseverance, has no superior, if 
e<{ual, anywhere. 

"The dead line is where it was seventy-live years ago, but 
iliaf name is no longer applied to it; now it is only known 
l)y the appropriate name of the Ridge Road."' 

The Sijuirc sat still, and, musing awhile, looked as 
though he saw many things yet in the past. After a little 
lie raised his head and looking at us with his kindly eyes, 
said: "Yes, I could tell you much more; but is not this 
( n')ugh for Smokey Town? The people are now industrious, 
thrifty and hap})y, and I feci that God's blessing is on them.'" 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 



YIII. 
THE PHYSICIANS OF THE COrNTY. 

'•The physicians of Newberry village,"' says Judge O'Neall 
in his Annals^ "deserve a more thorough kno\\dedge to por- 
tray their skill and character than I possess. Of the living. 
Drs. Thompson, Ruff, Long, Harrington, Caldwell, Pratt and 
James, I may not speak; they must speak for themselves in 
their lives and conversations. But of the dead, Drs. Waldo. 
Adams, Shell, Dobson, and the absent, Drs. Johnstone, Men- 
denhall and Benjamin Waldo, I may venture to speak." Soon 
after this was written, and before it was printed, Dr. Menden- 
hall died — Tuesday evening, the 2nd of November, 1S52. 

Following the example of Judge O'Neall, I propose to write 
briefly of the physicians of Newberry, relying u})on notes and 
memoranda given me by one of themselves, who has long and 
deservedly filled a high place in the minds and the affections 
of the profession and of the {)eople. 

Drs. Thompson, Long, Harrington, Caldwell, Pratt and Ruff' 
are all gone. Of Dr. Long's descendants, if there are any, I 
know nothing. One son of Dr. Thompson read medicine, and 
after having practiced his profession for many j^ears at Silver 
Street, in Newberry County, removed to Florida, where he is 
now living. One son, Willie, married, and died after a few 
years' married life, leaving one child, a fine, intelligent boy. 
Drs. Pratt and James were, for some years, in partnership in 
the drag business before the war. After the war Dr. Pratt 
continued the business alone. He was a cripple, and his in- 
firmities grew upon him so that for a long time before his 
death he was unable to walk. Caldwell and James both left 
Newberry. James went to Walhalla and Caldwell to Green 
ville. A notice of Dr. Harrington will be found elsewhere. 

Dr. P. B. Ruff was born on a Christmas eve, 1801, while 
his father's friends and neighbors, as was the custom in those 
days, were firing Christmas guns around, about and under the 
house. God sent him as a Christmas (r'dt to his father and 



ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. OO t 

mother. The hope that his long and useful life would round 
tiie century and that he would pass away and rise to a better 
world on a Christmas eve was almost realized, in that he 
reached his ninetieth year, dying December 2Stb, 1890. 

Drs. Caldwell and James, mentioned above, started the iirst 
drug store that was ever o])ened at Newberry. 

Dr. Meredith Moon and his son, Dr. Peter Moon, are both 
mentioned in O'Neall's Annals, but to wliat is there stated my 
friend, Dr- O. B. Mayer, Sr., adds the following: "Dr. Mere- 
dith Moon came to this country from Scotland about the year 
1790. He was looked upon as a man of high education. His 
field of practice was extremely large, extending as far as sixty 
miles from his home, which was in the neighborhood of Chap- 
pell's Ferry. He became a Methodist preacher and practiced 
medicine, and when he had time made appointments to preach. 
It is recollected by many yet living how his language was tioo-ed 
with the Scotch brogue. He lived to be a very old man." 

Dr. Peter Moon was the son of Dr. Meredith Moon. His 
education was good. It is not remembered where he graduated 
in medicine. He practiced his })rofession only a few years, 
when he married and turned his attention to planting, at which 
occupation he succeeded admirably, becoming a very wealthy 
man. He died very suddenly at the age of eighty-two years. 

Dr. William Moon was a younger brother of Dr. Peter Moon. 
He did not live long enough to achieve much reputation as a 
physician. 

To the notice of the elder Dr. Waldo, Dr. Mayer adds the 
following: ''Dr. Joseph Waldo came to Newberry County in 
tlie year 1709, and practiced medicine in the upper part of 
what was known as the Dutch Fork. After remaining several 
years in that part of the county practicing his profession he 
went to Charleston, S. C, where he remained a few years, and 
then came to Newberry village, about the year ISIO, and bought 
the bouse known for a long time as the Graham house, now 
(1892) in the possession of Mr. J. F. Todd and in which he resides. 
Dr. Waldo was regarded as the ablest physician in Newberry 
as long as he remained thero. He was a man of violent tem- 
per, very opinionated, and, bein^^' possessed of powerful mus- 
cular strength, he not infretju- iitly employed it to bring his 
patients, especially the negroes, into obedience to his pr. scrip- 



558 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

tions. He soiiietinief<, not frequently, iudulged in drinking 
sprees, during which, it is well known, he would attend no 
patient, obstinately refusing all calls until he became sober. 
After practicing medicine in Newberry village he bought a 
farm in Edgefield County, just across Saluda Kiver, and mar" 
ried Mrs. Smith, a widow lady of that neighborhood. Two 
children were the fruit of this marriage, Benjamin and Sarah 
(Judge O'Neall says Elizabeth). In the year 1820 he went to 
Connecticut, but after the death of his wife he returned to 
Newberry, and, having remained a short time, took his chil 
dren to his native place at the North, where he died. 

"Contemporaneous and in copartnership with Dr. Waldo was 
Dr. Thomas Shell — Big Tom. He was a very large man, hence 
his familiar nickname of Big Tom. He was a very worthy 
man and largely gained the confidence of the people. As is 
the case with all fat men, he was a famous humorist. His only 
fault, a common one in those days, was a too ungovernable 
fondness for drinking. 

"Drs. James Shell and Thomas Shell — Little Tom — were rel 
atives of Dr. Thomas Shell, Big Tom. They located in New- 
berry village about the year 1820, but they never gained much 
hold upon the esteem of the jieople. They moved Westward, 
and, swallowed up in the Great West, little is known in regard 
to them." 

"Dr. Burr Johnstone," says Dr. Mayer, "came to Newberry 
village from Fairfield County about the year 1818. He was 
Urst cousin of the late Chancellor Job Johnstone. After prac- 
ticing medicine a short time in Newberry he married a Miss 
Foote, in Fairfield. x\n epidemic of typhoid pneumonia pre- 
vailed in Newberry and adjoining counties (districts), and Dr. 
Johnstone was brought into a very large and laborious prac- 
tice, in which he gained the warm afPections of the people 
everywhere for his kind-heartedness, his self-sacrificing atten- 
tion to the sick, and his philosophic consideration of disease. 
He at once took his stand against the use of the lancet in the 
management of the terrible scourgre that aiiflicted the countrv. 
While his brother physicians, under the leadership of the ob- 
stinate Waldo, thrust the lancet into the arms of every patient 
afPected with the typhoid pneumonia, Johnstone, often with 
tears in his eyes, opposed the practice as altogether unreason- 



AN'XALS OF XEWBERRY. 55*) 

able. As it may be well supposed ia this enlightened ago, a 
better success followed the withdrawal of the lancet. 

"Dr. Johnstone sold his possessions in Xewberry in 1841, 
and moved to Tuskegee, Alabama. He lost his eyesight not 
long after his removal. He died in 1851.'- 

Soon after his marriage in 1818 he bought from Mr. Y. J. 
Harrington his plantation, on which there was a new house 
which Mr. Harrington had just built for his own use but had 
not moved into. It stood where now stands the large brick 
house owned and occupied by Judge Y. J. Pope. The house 
was a moderate-sized two-story building, and some years after 
it came into the possession of Colonel Simeon Fair, he, wish- 
ing to build a larger and more commodious structure, moved 
it some three or four hundred yards out onto the street, raised 
it off the ground and built a story of brick underneath, so that 
the house is now a three-story building. Dr. Johnstone lived 
in it almost continuously until the year 1841, when he removed 
to Alabama. The house is now owned and occupied by J. W. 
Chapman and family. The upper, or wooden, part of the build 
ing is seventy-one years old; the lower brick story is about 
half that age. 

Dr. John Foote Johnstone, a son of Dr. Burr John.stone, 
was born at Newberry, S. C, May 10th, 1821. In the way of 
education he received all the advantages that Newberry then 
afforded, and his education was completed at the celebrated 
school oE Dr. Waddell at Willington, Abbeville County. After 
a short illness he died on the evening of the Gth of June, 
1892. He graduated from the South Carolina Medical College 
in 1848, and went to Montgomery, Ala., in 1849, to begin his 
life work. At that place he lived and labored for foity-three 
years, and passed away at the ripe age of 71 years. 

"The father of Dr. John Long was Bartly (Bartholomew) 
Long, who lived about four miles below Prosperity. Dr. Long 
was a man of limited education, but by dint of hard study 
managed to become well informed in the profession of medi- 
cine. He obtained the confidence of the citizens of Newberry 
and for several years, from 1840 to 1860, enjoyed a large 
patronage. He went West a short time before the late watj 
and it is not known at this time whether or not he is still 
livincr. 



,"")(')() ANXAL.i OF NEWBERRY. 

'•Dr. Beiijaniin Waldo was tho soa of Dr. Joseph Waldo. 
He was regarded by the people of Newberry as a very accom 
plished physician. He practiced his profession in the town of 
Newberry about nine years, from lS;iS to 1847. He married 
Miss Lipscomb, of Edgefield, and after serving Newberry Dis- 
trict one year in the Legislature he moved to Florida before 
his term expired. His health became very much impaired after 
his removal to Florida. He died at St. Augustine in the year 
1880. 

"Dr. Daniel Dobsoa came to Newberry <is a school teacher 
from Alabama, where he had been engaged in the same occu- 
pation. He soon satisfied the people that he was a man of 
uncommon talents and attainments. While teaching school in 
184;} he began reading medicine under the instruction of Dr. 
Benjamin Waldo. He began the practice of medicine about 
the year 1845; was engaged in it for two or three years, and 
went to Mexico for the purpose of bringing back the body of 
Lieutenant John Stewart, where he contracted the malignant 
diarrhea prevailing there, and died, not long after his return 
to Newberry, much lamented. 

''Dr. — . Norris came from Union County somewhere about 
the year 1843-4. He left this iiart of the country, and has 
never since been heard of. 

Dr. H. H. Toland was the son of John Toland, living about 
nine miles northwest from the town of Newberry. He attended 
lectures in Lexington, Kentucky. His ambition to distinguish 
himself in surgery was .stimulated by the operations of Dudley 
for stone. Dr. Toland, as soon as he graduated, commenced 
the practice of his profession at Eeeder's, nine miles north of 
Newberry C. H., and while in practice there performed the 
operation of lithotomy twice. After this he was advised and 
encouraged to go to the city of Paris, in France, where he 
I'emained a year, the year 183'2, when the cholera was raging 
so fearfully in that city. He escaped the disease, and upon 
returning to this country selected the town of Newberry for 
the field of his labors; but he did not remain there long eiv 
lie removed to Columbia, S. C. There he entered into copart- 
nership with Dr. Thomas H. Wells, and the history of his life 
after this belongs to that city. He finally removed to Cali- 
fornia, where he died some years ago (1885 or 1880). Success 
attended him there also." 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 5fil 

The compiler of these Annals once saw Dr. Toland perform 
a not very diflficnlt, but a very neat and delicate surgical 
operation. A negro child, a little girl belonging to my father, 
had a soft, spongy, fungus growth on the inside of her upper 
eyelid, completely covering the eye and turning the lid back. 
Our local physician. Dr. J. C Ready, who, by the way, was 
unfit to perform the simplest surgical operation on account of 
unsteadiness of nerve, was unable to do anything in the case. 
Dr. Toland was sent for. After looking at the case he placed 
the child on her back, raised the eyelid with his left hand as 
far as he could, and, with a pair of tine, sharp scissors in his 
right, clipped the growth off at one snip and the work was 
done. One tiny jet of blood from a very small artery followed 
and that was all. The growth never returned. 

"The general education of Dr. Jacob H. King was imperfect. 
He never graduated in a medical college, but was examined, 
after reading the usual course, by a committee of physicians, 
who readily gave him a license to practice medicine. He 
began to j)ractice medicine in the town of Newberry in the 
year 182S, but was unfortunate. Some friends then gave him 
a new outfit and sent him to the Dutch Fork. His second 
field of labor was near Pomaria, where he gained the confi- 
dence of the people to a remarkable degree. He married 
while in that neighborhood a daughter of Henry Ruff, whose 
house of entertainment was so long and so favorably known 
many years ago. He removed to Newberry Court Hoiise about 
the year 1840, where he was elected to the Legislature and 
there delivered a most touching speech ia regard to the 
drougth of 1845. It is impossible to follow him in his wan- 
derings and callings. He finally drifted to Alabama where he 
died some years before the commencement of the war." 

"Dr. Samuel Fair was the son of Mr. William Fair, a very 
worthy farmer living between Prosperity and the town of 
Newberry. He received the best education that could be 
obtained in those times at the country schools, working on 
the farm through the spring and summer and going to school 
after the crop was laid by. He read medicine with Dr. Burr 
Johnstone. He practiced his profession in the town of New- 
berry and surrounding country from 1830 to 1842, when he 
went to Europe. After his return he formed a copartnership 
2 O 



562 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

with Dr. Thomas H. Wells, of Columbia, to "which city he 
removed, and where he suddenly died a short time after the 
war." 

"Dr. Samuel Myrick graduated in Charleston in the year 
1842 or 1843, practiced in the southeastern part of Newberry 
County, and died at the house of his brother-in-law. Dr. 
Thomas W. Thompson, in the town of Newberry, in the year 
1849." 

"Dr. Eobert Campbell was the son of Dr. Campbell, of 
Laurens County. He practiced the profession of medicine in 
the upper part of Newberry County, between the years 1840 
and 1S4G, and removed to Cross Hill, in Laurens County, 
where he died not very long ago. He will live long in the 
remembrance of the people for his kindhearteduess and his 
steady moral and religious character." 

"Dr. \Yilliamson ju'acticed medicine for several years in the 
neighborhood of Ashford's Ferry on Broad RiA^er, beginning 
about the year 1830. He left that part of the country and 
moved to the vicinity of Chappell's Depot. It is not remem 
bered when he died." 

"Dr. Watkins came to Newberry County about 1842 and 
located himself at the house of Mr. John Glymph, near Ash- 
ford's Ferry on Broad River. It is believed that he came 
from Camden. He was a young man of considerable address, 
but he did not remain long enough where he was located to 
establish a fair reputation in his profession. It is not re- 
membered where he went from Mr. Glymph's. About, or 
near, the close of the war in 1805, he made his appearance 
with his wife, at the toAvn of Newberry, as a refugee. They 
were both in broken down health. He left Newberry in ISOG, 
returning to his former home. He has since died." 

Drs. Ferguson, Worthington and Pitts all lived and prac- 
ticed medicine, but at different periods of tnne, at or near 
the Dead Fall. Dr. Ferguson I remember as a rather good 
looking man but pale. He died young, leaving a son, John 
W. Ferguson, who became a successful lawyer at Laurens 
Court House. When the writer of this was quite a boy Dr. 
Ferguson was called to my father's family to see some one 
who was sick, and the thought occurred to me that doctors, 
whose ■ business it was to cure the .sick, should never die 



AXNALS OF NEWBERKY. 568 

themselves. That idea was soon dissipated by a larger obser- 
vation of events and of the world. 

Dr. Benjamin Worthington I knew from my boyhood. He 
was a good man and a good physician. But he had one 
great weakness v.hich detracted from his usefulness and suc- 
cess in life. ITpright in all his dealings he had the respect 
and kindly regard of all who knew him. He was married 
but left no childi-en. 

Dr. Wylie K. D. Lindsey was also a practicing physician of 
Newberry, but I am entirely without data as to his career, 
except that for a time he practiced in partnership with Dr. 
Toland. 

I must say the same of many others, good and worthy 
raen, successful in their day and time, working faithfully and 
well and dying regretted by their friends and neighbors. In 
this connection I must mention Whipple, Stevenson, Hancock, 
Conwell, Lyles, Atwood, Finch, Todd, Chalmers, Hatton, Fant, 
Wicker, McKellar, Mayberry, Evans, Hodges, Eichelberger, 
Spearman, Herbert, Hall, Kilgore. 

Dr. Elijah Gates I never knew, but from others I have 
learned that he was a man of fine attainments, a genius and 
a poet. He practiced medicine in the middle and lower part 
of the county, sometimes also appearing before the public as 
a Baptist preacher. He is said to have been a graceful and 
eloquent orator and I can v/ell believe it. 

Judge O'jSTeall in his Annals makes honorable mention of 
Drs. Finch and Todd and tells of Dr. Finch's tragic death. 
Drs. Hatton, Fant, Wicker, McKellar, Hodges, Eichelberger, 
Spearman, Herbert, Hall, Kilgore, were well known to most 
of the citizens of the town of Newberry. Dr. Hodges was 
the son of the Rev. N. W. Hodges, the great Baptist preacher, 
so useful and influential in his day. Dr. Hodges practiced 
medicine only about ten years and died in the prime of life 
a few years before the war. 

Dr. Hatton, once quite well off, was ruined by the war and 
died in reduced circumstances. Dr. Fant was a druggist at 
Newberry for several years previous to his death. He was a 
sterling friend and an honest man. Eichelberger moved to 
Florida. Spearman practiced his profession in the neighbor- 
hood above Little River. Herbert, a son of old Squire Walter 



504 ANNALS OF NEWBERKT. 

Herbert, move J to Alabama long ago. I never saw him. 
Hall, son of my old friend Matthew Hall, died young, leaving 
a widow. Kilgore, the patriarch of Ebenezer Church, married 
a daughter of Gol. John Summers, who bore him a fine 
household of children, sons and daughters, who married and 
did well, bearing always an honorable name. Mrs. Kilgore, 
the doctor's wido^', was a sufferer from ill health for many 
years previous to her death. Her ill health did not make 
her peevish and fretful but seemed to have n refining and 
purifyinsr influence, as her face was certainly one of the most 
saintly I ever saw. I have observed in other cases that suf- 
fering when patiently borne always refines and elevates the 
sufferer to a height of Christian excellence, perhaps not pos- 
sible of attainment iu any other way. . 

One whose name I may not mention here, for it is sacred, 
lived in almost continual pain for more than a year before 
she died, but murmured not; thinking always, even to the 
last, of the comfort of those about her. She was made perfect 
through suffering; and at last, when the hour of departure 
came, she passed away as calmly and quietly as a little child 
falling asleep listening to cradle melodies. Surely such a 
departure is almost enough to make one in love with death. 
And there are others I know now whose faces grow brighter 
as they approach the end. As if they caught the light froiu 
the sun rising on the other side. 

That Dr. Elijah Gates, mentioned above, was a man of fine 
poetical genius is evidenced l)y a poem of his which I re- 
produce here. This is his only work that has been preserved, 
and this was never committed to writing by himself. It was 
composed and memorized and recited by the author to several 
friends, who were so much pleased Avith it, that they made 
copies from his recitation. The copy from which I copy was 
written, I think, liy William Summer, Esq., of Pomaria, who 
knew the author well. 

The poem is called 

THE DOGWOOD — -AN ODE TO HYMEN. 

I saw the Oak, the forest's pride, In words, she decks herself in wreathes 

And the young Dogwood at his side, Of whitest flowers all gay and fair. 

Blooming like an Eastern bride. And spreads her sweetness to the air. 

How much .she loved she never told. The Oak, the storms could never move, 

I"or virgin 3-oung is not so bold; Who.se rugged arms had boxed with Jove, 

But though her heart not yet she breathes Kelt all the mighty power of love. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



50^ 



Next by her stood the cherry tree 
And softly whispered "Marry me!" 
"Marry thee," she blushed and said, 
"I'll wed the Oak or never wed." 
The cherry tree in haste replied: 
"Too haughty then to be my bride! 
Full often hast thou ta'en the cherry 
Krom me and said "How sweet the berry! 
"As often hast thou kissed the flower 
Of Dogwood washed by morning shower 
But shouldst thou wed my sylphy form, 
Thou couldst not shelter from the storm, 
Nor shade me when the burning sun 
Pours down his rays meridian. 
And when the axeman comes along. 
Jovial with his morning song, 
And lays this mighty forest low. 
The cherry tree will make a show 
In a toilette or bureau, 
To be admired by girls and boys. 
And hold their trinkets and their toys. 
]?ut the firm Oak a keel shall be 
To some tall ship that rides the sea. 
And ploughs the billows swift as wind. 
And leaves a gulf of light behind, 
Bearing the spirits of the brave 
To send proud tyrants to their grave. 
And soone*- than thou .shouldst unclasp 
The sacred zone, I'd bind the asp 
Both to my arm and to my heart. 
And bid my virgin soul depart 
To join the vestals who have given 
Their spirits white as swans to heaven." 
'Twas said; and quick a listening breeze 
Came rustling through the leafy trees. 
And softly kissed the Dogwood flower; 
Loitering awhile around her bower; 
Then into thinnest mits it spread. 
And rose in vapor round the head 
Of the tall Oak, and told the tale 
Of her the monarch loved so well. 
In sighs the Oak prefers his prayer 
To Him, who rules Earth, Sea and Air; 
"Almighty Jove! mj- passion crown, 
And send propitious omens down!" 
Thrice Jove thunders on the night. 
And fills the heaver.s with dazzling light; 
And next a silver shower he sheds, 
And sets the bow above their heads; 
Sure omens that immortal Jove 
Will bless the happy pair in love. 
The cedar bowed to them and said: 
"This is the man and this the maid; 
When hearts unite as well as hands 
Great Jove approves the holy bands. 
Crowning with bliss the wedded life; 
And Love hath joined you, man and wife. 

Incense arose from plant and flower, 
Ju.st washed by the refreshing shower, 



And woods and winds, and waters round. 

Toured forth their .soft assenting sound; 

And Orpheus did sing and play 

To wild Nature's minstrelsey; 

"How Hymen's rites were first from Jove. 

And every thing below, above, 

Was conquered by the power of Love." 

" Jove heard the soft subduing strain, 
And hung his head and heard again: 
And quick he laid his thunders by 
And tuned the spheres to harraon.\'. 
]\Iusic can soothe the savage breast, 
Or lay the thundering god to rest; 
The sun that rode behind the cloud 
Far in the West, shook oflThis shroud, 
And stood to hear the Poet sing 
The origin of every thing. 
From the ivj- on the wall 
To Lebanon's cedars tall; 
From the glow-worms spark at night 
To his own tran.scendent light; 
And from the smallest drop of rai;i 
To the deep and rolling main. 
But as the min.strel swept his lyre. 
Every note ascending higher, 
He kindled with celestial fire. 
And rose from earth to things above, 
And sang the Uncreated Love, 
That, brooding on the vast abyss, • 
Made pregnant all with life and bliss: 
"The smallest insects o'er the earth 
Owe to this Love their wondrous birth; 
The purple mvriads on the plum 
Bask in its smiles and feast at home; 
They first enjoy their short repast. 
And man receives the plum at last. 
That he may have as well as they. 
His lu.scious fruit and festal day. 
The spark that warms the mother's breast. 
Whilst she sings her babe to rest. 
And makes her press it to her heart. 
And the streams of life impart. 
Is not of earth but from above, 
The Fount of Uncreated Love. 
Man's love is partial to his friends, 
And that too ofl for .selfi.sh ends; 
The Uncreated knows no bound, 
Whate'r has life it circles round; 
Hears the young ravens when they cry 
For food, and sends a quick supply; 
Ajid in compassion moves to ble.ss 
The widow and the fatherless; 
But most displays its sovereign power 
To bless man in life's latest hour; 
For when his gla.ss of time is run. 
Nor he expects another sun, 

> It sends him hope to cheer his gloom 
And gild his passage to the tomb; 
Nay, more, it bears him through the night 
Of Death to upper worlds of light. 



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AXNALS OF NEWBERKY. 



Where the weary pilgrims rest When Phcctoii raslily took the reins 

I'roni their labors and are blest; And lashed them o'er the azure plains. 

Nor these alone, but Cherubim The sun no sooner orders told, 

Drink of this I.ove, and Seraphim." Than quick on burning viheels he rolled, 

And seemed a sea of liquid gold; 

,,,, _ ^ J , , ..,, Still enlarging as he flew, 

1 he Poet ceased and echo still , , . . , , 

,,,,., _ , .,, And deepening to a richer hue, 

Gave back the song from every hill, 

r.^. „„.„j u 4.1. I. .V.1- -,1 Until he reached the horizon. 
Repeated bv the babbling nil; 

>.j -1. a i 1 ,., L Where his dailv course was run, 
And as it floated on the breeze , . - . ... 



.And there his parting glories shed 
-And sank to sleep on Thetis' bed. 



The stones replied and bending trees;' 
From caverns deep and rocks around 

To mountain tops rolled up the sound. No candles now that smoke the wall. 

Then died away from mortal ears Xor lamps that stench the lovers' hall; 

And joined the Inusic of the spheres. The moon and all the .stars appear 

And echoed through the realms above Hung o'er their heads a chandelier. 

In loudest pteans "God is I.ove." No golden goblets grace the board, 

The sun .shook from his golden locks Such as are bj- fools adored, 

Ivight that all other beautj- mocks, And no such viands mar the feast 

.■\nd smiling on the wedded pair As turn immortal man a beast. 

Sprinkled with gems their leafy hair; In leafy cups they drink the dew. 

Then quick he bade his charioteer And quick their leafy cups renew, 

Down the Western steeps to steer. And drink and revel all the night. 

And to hold the middle track, And quaff the dew till morning light. 

Nor give the flowing rein too slack; For Hymen's rites were first from Jove; 

For though his steeds well knew the way -And every thing below, above. 

They bolted on a certain day. Is conquered by the power of Love. 

I hope my reader? will not complain of the foregoing as 
being too long. To me tlio lines seem very beantiful, and I 
feel that they ought to be preserved in a permanent form and 
handed down to })Osterity as worthy a place in the Annals of 
Newberry. 

Not many years after the death of Dr. Worthingtori, or per- 
haps before, Dr. Pitts began the practice of medicine in the 
neighborhood of the Dead Fall, living just above. He, too, 
died young, passing away in the very prime of life. 

Dr. Rutherford was a son of William Rutherford and grand- 
son of Colonel Robert Rutherford, a memoir of whom is given 
by Judge O'Neall. He was a man of wealth, a successful farmer 
and planter, and, notwithstanding the disastrous results of the 
war, left a handsome property at his death. He died not long 
after the war. He was the father of Colonel \Yilliam Drayton 
Rutherford of the Third S. C. Regiment. 

I may be permitted to mention here that when Col. Robert 
Rutherford came to this county from North Carolina there 
came with him a widowed sister, Mrs. Boulware, who had some 
sons who were well grown young men. Mrs. Boulware, with 
her sons, did not stop and settle in Newbeny, but passed across 
tSaluda into Edgefield. A grandson, Humphrey Boulware, was 



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567 



for some years Sheriff of Edgelield District. Some of the fam- 
ily returned to Newberry or Laurens, and their descendants 
are still living in those counties. Judge O'Neall says that Col- 
onel Rutherford made no profession of religion. In fact, the 
family were Episcopalians. Mrs. Boulware after her removal 
to Edgefield united with the Baptists, lived and died in that 
communion, and was buried at Red Bank Church, in Edgefield 
County. 

Dr. O. B. Mayer, Si-., one of the best citizens that Newberry 
ever had; one of the most useful and unselfish men that ever 
lived in the county, left this world for a better on Thursday 
afternoon, July IGth, 1891, at half-past two o'clock. It is im- 
possible for me to write of him as I should, or as he deserved. 
For many years he was an intimate friend and associate, and 
the very sight of his kind, genial and benevolent face kindled 
good and pure thoughts in my mind and caused my own face 
to glow with a better light. 

Dr. Mayer was born near Pomaria on February '24th, I^IS, 
and spent the days of his boyhood at his birthplace, to wliich 
he so often referred in his writings with filial devotion. He 
attended school at Lexington (after receiving the primary edu- 
cation at home), where he prepared himself for the South Car- 
olina College, from which he graduated in 1837. After his 
gi'aduation he read medicine and received the degree of M. D. 
from the Charleston Medical College. After practicing a few 
years in the Dutch Fork he went to Europe, and attended some 
of the best European and German universities. He left Poma- 
ria on the 25th of April, 1844. He spent three years in Europe 
(they were not idly spent), dividing his time between the uni- 
versities of Edinburgh, Paris and Heidelberg. He returned to 
Pomaria in April, 1847. After two years' practice at that place 
he removed to Newberry, where he lived, honored and useful, 
for nearly forty-five years. 

Dr. Mayer was married three times, first in 1830. His first 
wife was Miss Mary Davis, of Fairfield, but who at the time 
was living in Mississippi. She died in less than a year after 
the marriage. His second wife was Miss Carrie DeWalt, of 
Newberry, whom he married in 1851. She died in 18G1, leav- 
ing one son and four daughters to a fathers care. Later he 
married Mrs. Louisa Kinard, who survives him. 



568 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Dr. Mayer attained emineuce in his profession, and was also 
distinguished as a writer. He contributed largely to the peri- 
odical press in early life, and continued to contribute occa 
sionally to almost within a week of his death. His last work 
of this character was the revisal of the Dutch Fork Sketches 
for The Herald and News; and on the day before ha was taken 
with his fatal sickness he finished these sketches. He left 
incomplete a work on which he was bestowing great pains and 
labor, entitled "Malladoce, the Britain; His Wanderings from 
Druidism to C-hristianity." This fragment has been published 
since his death in book form. Other stories and sketchts fully 
equal, I think, to those which have been printed, remain in 
manuscript. His best printed stories are, perhaps, "The Voice, 
the Hand and the Silhouette," and "The Music Girl of the Rue 
de la Harpe." These appeared in Russell's Magazine, then 
published in Charleston, 1857. In "The Voice, the Hand and 
the Silhouette" he predicted the invention of the telephone. 

Dr. Mayer was a skillful surgeon, and perform el during his 
practice many difficult operations. He retired from active prac- 
tice several years before his death. 

Dr. Mayer did not seek the applause of men, or he could 
have obtained a world-wide distinction in his profession, and 
also in literature, in which he took great delight. He did not 
seek wealth, or he might have grown rich, as his practice was 
extensive. He lived to be of use. He was pure-hearted, hon- 
est, overflowing with generosity and kindness. 

Dr. Mayer was a thorough English scholar, and spoke and 
wrote the German language. He was also a good French, 
liatin and Greek scholar and a good musician, and translated 
many German hymns into English and arranged appropriate 
music for them. 

He was Professor of Physiology and Hygiene for many years 
in Newberry College, before its removal to Walhalla, in 1868, 
and after its return to Newberry. 

Dr. Mayer was a truly religious man — one of the most faith- 
ful and devoted students of the Bible I have ever known; a 
firm believer in it as the Word of God, making it the rule of 
his life. He was a consistent member of the Lutheran Church, 
but not a bigot — an humble, pious, devoted Christian. His 
faith was childlike, taking God at His word, and relying upon 
His promises undoubtingly. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 569" 

How can I write more of him than that I knew and loved 
him? 

Four children survive him, Dr. O. B. Mayer, Jr., Mrs. Mar- 
tin, of Laurens; IMrs. Connor, of Cokesbury, and Mrs. J. T. 
Mayes, of Newberry. Miss Alice Mayer died in December, 1884. 
Dr. James A. Cofield was born in Union County, S. C, oa 
the 2r)th of May, 1844, and died at Newberry, S. C, on the 
Hd of November, 1888, of aneurism of the innominate artery. 
After serving through the war as a brave and dutiful soldier, 
he studied medicine, and graduated at the South Carolina 
Medical College in 1874. For some years ho practiced med- 
icine very successfully in and around Maybinton. In 1884 
he moved to Newberry, S. C, whore he was actively engaged 
in the practice of his profession when he died. He was a 
pleasant, kind hearted man. and much loved by those who 
knew him. 

Dr. David A. Cannon was a native of Newberry Covinty, in 
which his life was spent. He died April 18th, 1890, leaving a 
widow, his second wife, who brought him one child. His first 
wife, who bore him several children, was the daughter of Isaac 
Herbert, Esq., and her sons and daughters are all grown, one 
daughter being the wife of Rev. M. M. Brabham, of the M. E- 
Church, South. 

Dr. James A. Renwick, a descendant of the old Scotch 
Covenanters, than whom the world never produced a braver 
or more liberty-loving race, after a not very long but useful 
career as a physician and a man, died on the 13th of March, 
1865. He was a brother of Col. John S. Renwick, and, like 
him, a consistent member of the Church of his fathers. 

In the death of Dr. John K. Gary, says the Newberry 
Herald of April 7th, 1880, Newberry has lost one of her best 
citizens. He was born near where he lived and died. During 
his whole life of seventy-two years no blemish ever rested 
upon his name. Prompt to respond to the calls of duty; as 
a physician he Avas skillful, kind and successful. He waited 
upon the poor and humble with the same kindness and 
. assiduity as upon the wealthy and refined. But physicians 
are usually the most benevolent of men. Seeing so much 
suffering they grow tender in feeling. Dr. Gary died in 
harness, laboring to the last to relieve others. While sufferings 



570 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

great pain from the disease wliicli caused his own death, he 
continued to visit his patients until Friday, the 26th, when he 
made his last. On Saturday he was in Newberry, suffering 
great pain, returned home, took to his bed and died Tuesday, 
30th. His death occurred March 30fch, ISSO. He was buried 
next day at Bush River Baptist Church, of which he had 
long been a member. He left sons and daughters — Mar- 
tin H, J. Wistar: D'Orsay L., dead; Rebecca, wife of John 
Watts, of Laurens. 

As a physician I knew nothing of Dr. Thomas B. Kennerly, 
though I have no doubt that he was a good one, as he was a 
man of good judgment and great intelligence and a most 
genial and pleasant companion. He died on the 31st of 
October, 1884, after two months' illness, of typhoid malaria, 
in the 64th year of his age, and was buried at King's Creek 
Church Cemetery on Saturday following. Dr. Kennerly was a 
native of Lexington County, but had been living in Newberry 
for a number of years. He left a large family to mourn 
their loss. Two children, one son, James L., one daughter, 
Lilla R., now, 1892, make their home at Newberry. The 
daughter is the wife of Alan Johnstone, Esq. Edward lives 
on the old homestead, as also does one daiighter, Amelia K. 
Samuel is in Texas making his home there. 

Dr. Beaufort T. Yarbrough once practiced in Newberry 
County. He was a native of Edgefield, born on Big Creek. 
He was a man of line intelligence and amiable nature. He 
died 16th of April, 1880, at the house of his sister, Mrs. 
Culbreath, mother of James Y. Culbreath, Esq., in Edgefield 
County, near where he was born. 

Drs. John A. and J. Eusebius Berly have both been mentioned 
already in our notice of Pomaria; but as they were both 
practicing j^hysicians, we feel that they ought to occu])y a 
place in the group. 

Dr. John A. Berly was truly a good man, and his death 
was a loss to the community. Ho died on Sunday, 16th of 
December, 1888, aged about 65 years. The date of his birth 
I am not able to give. 

John Eusebius, son of Dr. John A. Berly, died unmarried. 
After leaving college he read and took his degree in medi- 
cine, but feeling it his duty to preach the gospel he prepared 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 571 

himself for the ministry and was engaged in that work at 
the time of his death, July 19th, 1890. 

Dr. David E. Ewart was the son of Mr. David Ewart, for 
many years a merchant in Columbia, and who conferred honor 
upon the calling. Dr. Ewart was botn in Columbia, S. C, on 
April 9th, 1830; graduated from the Charleston Medical Col- 
lege March 15, 1851; went to Paris in 1853 to perfect his 
studies, and remained in that city until near the clof'^e of the 
year 1854. He mai*ried Miss Laura E. Graham, of Newberry, 
and was j^racticing medicine in that town when the War of 
Secession broke out. He was appointed Surgeon of the Third 
South Carolina Regiment, which position he held for some time, 
but finally resigned and was appointed Assistant Surgeon Con- 
federate States Navy. He died of yellow fever on board the 
gunboat Chicora in the harbor of Charleston, S. C, September, 
1804 

Dr. " Thomas C. Brown was one of the most solid and useful 
citizens of Newberry County. He graduated at Erskine Col- 
lege, and having just completed a full course in medicine, he 
served in the Medical Department of the Confederate States 
of America with Dr. Ewart. After the close of the war he 
devoted himself with success to his large farming interest. In 
1880 he was elected Senator from this county by a very flat- 
tering vote. The leading members of the Senate who survive 
him speak in the highest terms of his efficiency in that hon- 
orable position. 

He had an attack of paralysis about five years before his 
d(^atii, but was not disqualified for the active duties of life. 
Dr. Brown was a ruling elder in the Mount Bethel Presbyte- 
rian Church. He died in the prime of life, on Friday, the 20th 
of June, 1891, and was buried at King's Creek Church on Sat- 
urday, a very large number of friends attending. Rev. E. P. 
McClintock, a college mate, and Rev. E. C. McClure, his pastor, 
conducted the funeral services. 

Dr. Higgins, son of F. B. Higgins, Esq., lived and practiced 
medicine near Chappells in the upper part of the county. His 
success as a practitioner was good, and his good sense and 
judgment as a doctor were much esteemed and relied upon. 

Of other physicians who have passed away I must mention 
Law, IVfcCants, Chapman, S. Godfrey Kibler (died in 1805), 



572 ANNALS OV NEWBERRY. 

Lester, Sheppard, Weir, Eiilow, Pearson, Payne, Hill. Sims. 
Speake, Vanlew, Douglas, Patton, Walker, Holmes, Parr, Bobo. 

And I feel that I ought not to close this i-ecord of the phys- 
icians of Newberry without some notice of Dr. Geddings of 
Charleston, not mentioned, I think, in the tirst part of this 
work. Although his life was mainly passed in Charleston and 
the greater part of his life-work was there, yet he was a native 
of Newberry County, and Newberry has the right to enroll 
him in the list of her illustrious sons. Dr. Geddings was born 
near Cliappell's Ferry, in the upper part of the county, of poor 
and obscure parentage; lived in early boyhood near the Gum 
Spring, a few miles from the village of Newberry, his mother 
having been driven by adverse circumstances to leave her home 
near Chappells. He was seen, adopted and educated by Maj. 
Fred. Gray, who lived long enough to know that his protege 
was a great man and one of the ablest surgeons of the world. 

Dr. Calmes, toward the latter part of his life, and long after 
he had quit the practice of medicine, I used to meet often in 
the law oSice of my friend Henry Summer, where we held 
frequent discourse of Providence, fixed Fate, Free Will and kin- 
dred subjects. The science of Evolution had not been discov- 
ered in those days, or if it had been discovered, it had not begun 
to agitate the thinking world as it does now, or doubtless Ave 
would learnedly have held forth on that also. Di-. Calmes was 
a man of extensive reading and liberal education. I never 
knew him in his best days, but in the latter part of his life I 
found his conversation entertaining and stimulating. He was 
the son of William Calmes of Kevolutionary fame, so honora- 
bly mentioned in the first part of this work. 

Dr. George W. Garmany served the Confederacy, entered 
the ranks as private, was promoted to surgeon of the 62nd 
North Carolina Regiment, Colonel Love commanding; died 
December 20, 1890. 

The other medical officers, surgeons and physicians from 
Newberry County who were in the Confederate service I also 
give here: Sampson Pope, surgeon 22nd Georgia Regiment 
and senior surgeon Sorrel's Georgia Brigade; now living at 
Newberry and practicing his profession. 

R. C. Carlisle, surgeon 7th South Carolina Infantrj^; now 
living and practicing medicine in Newberry County. 



A^•NALS OF NEWBERRY. 573 

. James Mcintosh, assistant surgeon C. S. A.; now living and 
practicing in Newberry, S. C. 

Spencer G. "Welch, assistant surgeon Kith South Carolina 
Infantry; living at Helena, near Newberry; not in practice. 

Of those physicians who have jiassed away I have not yet 
mentioned Blackbvirn, Gilder, Jeter, Irby, White, Dickert, Jenkins, 
Bond. Of these doctors I know nothing, save the names as 
given to me, except Gildex-, and by Gilder I mean Col. James 
K. Gilder, who, though not holding a diploma from any 
medical college, was as truly worthy of the title of Doctor as 
any physician who ever practiced medicine in the county. 
He made disease a study and he also made a study of the 
remedies for the various forms of disease. And besides, he 
was a man of great intelligence and uprightness of character. 
He kept a drugstore at his home in the upper part of the 
county, where he sold a great many medicines. He was a 
disciple of the Botanic system and never administered minerals 
in his practice. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 



IX. 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 

Thomas Bauskett. 

Thomas Bauskett was the son of John Banskett, of Orange 
County, N. C, and married a daughter of John O. Daniel, of 
the same county and State. He came to Newberry County 
about the year 1780. He served one term in the Legislature. 
After his wife's death he remained a widower for forty years, 
thus affording a rare instance of faithful and devoted attach- 
ment. Ho died leaving two children, John Bauskett and Ann. 

John Bauskett became an eminent lawyer, well known to 
the people of Newberry, and, indeed, to the people of the 
whole State. Ann became the wife of James Wadlington. 

The remains of Major Thomas Bauskett lie buried at the 
Baptist Cliurch, in Newberry County, known as Bauskett's 
Church. 

Thomas Wadlington. 

Thomas Wadlington, Sr., was one of the original settlers of 
Newberry County. He came from Frederick County, Virginia, 
in 17()7 and settled on Enoree River and was a large landed 
proprietor. He brought with him four sons, William, Thomas, 
James and Edward, and one daughter, Ann, who married 
Benjamin Hampton. 

William was an olHcer in the Continental Army. He left a 
son, Jaines Wadlington, who was Lieutenant-Colonel of the 
Fourth Regiment of Cavalry under Governor Bennett. He 
was a planter, and on the first day of June, 1820, married 
Miss Ann Bauskett, a daughter of Major Thomas Bauskett. 
James Wadlington died October IJlst, 1831, and left one son, 
Thomas B. Wadlington, and one daughter, Caroline J. Wad- 
lington. 

Thomas B. AVadlington graduated in the South Carolina 
College in the class of 18-42; read law with his uncle. Col. 
John Baiiskett, and on the 23d of April, 18-44, married Miss 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 575 

Harriet Soudley ia Columbia. His wife lived about one year 
after marriage and he remained a widower the rest of hi^ 
life, living quietly on his plantation, where he accumulated a 
1 arge ])roporty, most of which was swept away by the war. 
He died on the 10th of December, 188'2, and his earthly 
remains rest in the family burial ground at Bauskett's Church 
by the side of his fatlier. He was the last of his name in 
this county. Those who did not die here moved years ago 
to Mississippi and Texas. His sister, Caroline J., born in 
Newberry County November 19, 1831, became the wife of Col. 
Ellison S. Keitt, of Orangeburg District, January 25, 1858. 
They lived in Columbia, S. C, until her death. May 4, 1802. 
Five children were l)orn of this union: Mary Genevieve, who 
died in infancy; Edward George, who graduated at Wolford 
College, read medicine and graduated at the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, was elected by the faculty 
assistant surgeon in tlie hospital of the city of Baltimore 
where he remained seven months, resigning in consequence of 
impaired health. He practiced seven months ia Newberry 
County, and died, a martyr to his profession, a loss to science, 
September 2, 1882. Harriet Ann, married Col. L. P. Miller, 
of Georgetown, and now lives in Newberry County on Enoree 
River. Joseph L., served one term in .the House of Repre- 
sentatives from Newberry County. In 1800 he was elected 
State Senator. Thomas W., is a farmer and teacher, living in 
Newberry County at the old Wadlington place. 

During the war between the States Coh Ellison S. Keitt 
raised and commanded Keitt's Mounted Riflemen and served 
in and around Charleston during the entire seige of that city 
— I^eing the last Confederate officer who commanded Sullivan's 
Island and Mt. Pleasant. Since the war he has lived on his 
])laritation on the Enoree River in Newberry County. He has 
served two terms as a Representative from Newberry in the 
State Legislature. The spelling of the family name was 
changed in 1812 from Kitts to Keitt, by the three sons, 
Adam, William and George, at the sugt^estion of William. 

Andrew Turner, 
Son of Mary Houston and William Turner, was born in 
Newberry District on the 25th of July, 1794. At the age of 



i)lQ ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

seventeen he enlisted under Captain Gillespie in the war of 
1812. On returning from the war he was associated with his 
maternal uncle, "William Houston, in merchandising at a place 
called ''Houston." Near by stood, at that time, Gilder's 
Creek Church, Presbyterian. Now all is changed; only the 
cemetery marks the spot. 

Some of the best families in the State lived in that section 
at that time, viz. : Parson Renwick, the Glasgows, th-^ Wrights, 
the Dugans, descendants of an old Kevolutionary family, the 
Tolands, Andersons and Boyds. 

In 1829 William Houston removed with his family to Ala- 
bama. Andrew Turner continued to merchandise; and, at the 
same time, he superintended a small farm. In 1881 he married 
Maria Marian Dugan, third daughter of Elizabeth Lemon 
Wright and '\^'illiam Dugan. One child was born to them, 
Mary Elizabeth, named for her two grandmothers. In 1835 
Andrew Turner removed to his residence, "Forest Hill," on 
Indian Creek, thirteen miles north of the town of Newberry. 

In 1887 his wife died at the early age of twenty-four years, 
leaving an only child, to whom he devoted his long widowed 
life. He was a man of strong integrity, firm in his friendships, 
very fond of his home, and had the I'ospect and confidence of 
all who knew him. He was a director of the Newberry Bank 
during the ''times that tried men's souls." 

Andrew Turner died the last year of the war at his resi- 
dence, "Forest Hill," at the age of threescore and ten, on 
the oth of October, 1864. He left an only child, Mary Eliza- 
beth, who in 1858 married William Clement Gilliam, a member 
of an old Virginia family of English descent. Mr. Gilliam 
died shortly after their marriage, on August 9, 1854, much 
beloved by his neighbors, leaving an only son, William Clement, 
who is now a practicing physician in New York City. 

Dr. Jacob F. Gilliam 
and his wife, Mary Massey, were residents of Newberry Dis- 
trict. They had three children to survive them: William 
Clement, Drucilla Ann and Pettis Wales. 

Mary Massey was the only child of her parents. Her mother 
was a Miss Duncan and married Mr. Massey. They were both 
Tirsfinians. Dr. Gilliam's mother was Miss Sims. He died in 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. i i 

his forty-eighth year; his wife died soon afterwards in her 
fortysecond year. Their daughter, Drucilla Ann, married 
James B. AVilson, the only brother of six sisters. Their res- 
idence, "Ingleside," was six miles northeast of the town of 
Newberry. They had six children born unto them, three 
daughters and three sons. They were a most lovely, lovable 
and cultured family. In seven years tbe whole family died, 
father, mother and six children, from August, 1857, to Octo- 
ber, 1864. The oldest was nineteen years old. The names of 
the children were Mary Rosalie; Sarah Caroline (after her 
aunt, Mrs. Wilson Caldwell,); William Clement (named for his 
uncle), killed on the 18th of October, 1804, in Virginia; 
Clilliam Sims, one of General Ripley's couriers, who died of 
yellow fever; Josephine Caldwell and Pettus Whales. They all 
sleej^ side by side in Tranquil Cemetery, not far from the 
old homestead, there to await the first resurrection. 
Pettus W'ales Gilliam 
Married Harriet Caldwell Wilson, sister to James B. Wilson, 
both natives of Newberry; resided at '"White Oak," seven miles 
north of the town of Newberry. They had one son, who was 
named for his uncle, William Clement Gilliam. During the 
war ho and his son, Avho was then in his sixteenth yoar, were 
both in the Southern army. At the close of the war, the fol- 
lowing autumn of ISOo, he with his wife and son, Roscius 
Atwood and his family, removed to Arkansas, where two 
daughters were born unto them, Colin Murchison and Mary 
Elizabeth. His wife died in Arkansas. He did not survive 
lier many years. They both were buried in their adopted 
State. 

Robert Glenn Gilliam, 

Brother of Dr. Jacob F. Gilliam, married Eusebia Blackburn. 
They resided on Indian Creek in Newberry District. They bad 
one daughter who survived her parents. She is now Mrs. 
Mary Elizabeth Hinson. Some years ago she lost both her 
lovely little daughters Mary and Mattie; each had arrived at 
the age of eleven years. Mary, the eldest, died of diptheria. 
In two and a half years Mattie died of measles. 
William Dugan 

Married Elizabeth Lemon Wright. Their residence was sit- 
uated on Indian Creek, ten miles north of the town of 
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ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 



Newberry, on the Buncombe Road. They bad four daugliters, 
Lucinda, the eldest, married Meredith Freeman, of North 
Carolina. Mary married Ivobert Cam]i)bell, the father of John 
B. Campbell, of Jalapa. Maria Marion married Andrew Turner, 
Frances, the yougest, married John T. Boyd. 

Zaccheus A\'kigiit and Robert Glenn Gilliam. 

In a short sketch (and these that I give are of necessity com- 
pelled to be very short) justice cannot be done to the memory 
of the many good men and woukmi mentioned. Amongst these 
is Zaccheus Wright, the father of Captain Robert H. Wright, 
of the town of Newberry, and mentioned lovingly by the one 
who gives me these sketches as ''my sainted uncle." He and 
Robert Glenn Gilliam were near neighbors, and Avere truly some 
of the "salt of the earth." They worshiped together in the 
same church, '"Tranciuil,'" for many years. They both are asleep 
in Jesus, "blessed sleep." Their bodies are interred in the 
same cemetery, close by the church, wher'e in life they were so 
fond of attending, there to await the first resurrection. Rest 
in peace — with all the faithful in Christ. Amen. 

There are a few other families living in close proximity to 
those already mentioned, whose names must ])e recalled. Of 
these is Jacob Duckett, father of Colonel James >V. Duckett. 
who was one of the largest and most successful planters in all 
that section. 

Miis. Thomas Bond. 

Mrs. Thomas Bond left two children. Hugh King Bond-, 
born in Newberry, married Rachel Hunter. They now reside 
in Laurens County. Laura Bond married Dr. Robert Hunter, 
of Laurens County. John Bond, brother of Richard Bond, of 
Laurens County, and his wife Nancy were residents of New- 
berry. Nathan F. Johnson now owns the place where they 
lived. They brought up a large and influential family of sons 
and daughters. Mrs. Smith L. Davis, of Columbia, is the 
youngest. 

Chesley and Wm. C. Davis. 

Chesley Davis and his son, William C. Davis, have both 
died recently, leaving a good name to their posterity. Will- 
iam C. Davis married Sarah Loftus, and their daughters, Mrs. 
Or. Pinckney Johnson and Mrs. AV. W. Risex, "will rise up 
.md call them blessed." 



annals of newberry. 570 

William Page 
Married Hester Hancock. They ^v«?re beloved and respected 
by all who knew them. With four children they removed to 
(leorgia many years ago. 

Martin (tary. 
Uncle to Creneral Martin AVitherspoon Gary, of Edgetield. 
married Eliza Young, sister of John L. Young, of Union. 
They resided in Newberry at the "Rich Hill'' place, on Indian 
Creek. Afterwards 

Stephen Blackburn 
lived there. He was a brother of Mrs. Robert Glenn Gilliam 
married and Elizabeth Gary, t-ister to Martin and Hillary 
Gary. They had one daughter born to them, Mary Caroline, 
and she is now Mr.s. Dr. F. F. Gary, of Abbeville. Stephen 
Blackburn died at Rich Hill. His widow afterwards married 
Dr. Rook. 

William Davis 

Married Lucy Parke Dugan, sister of Col. Robert Dugan. 
They were highly esteemed and respected by t:hose who knew 
them. They had two children, William and Mary. The latter 
survived her parents. She is now Mrs. Mary Caroline Dobbins, 
beloved and respected by all her friends. She has one son, 
Ligon. 

John B. Richey 

Married Elizabeth Dillard. They resided in Newberry Dis- 
trict and had an interesting family of children: Eunice, now 
Mrs. Meadows; Lavinia, who married the Rev. J. Emory 
Watson, who was for twenty six years a member of the South 
Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
Curtis Richey and Elam Richey have removed to Florida. 
AN'iLLiAM Gallagher 

Married Mary Grove. They had an interesting family of 
children: Permelia, James Franklin and Martha. Permelia 
married Mr. McCullough; Martha married Mr. Swittenberg 
and moved to Mississippi. 

Colonel B. Z. Herndon, 
a grandson of Col. Benjamin Herndon, of the Kevolutionaiy 
war, once lived on Little River in Newberry County, on a 



580 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

place now owned by the family of Henry Burton, late de 
ceased. Col. Benjamin Herndon fought at the battle of the 
King's Mountain. And Mrs. John S. Fair, a deseendant of 
his, now of the town of Newberry, has in her possession a 
pair of silver spurs that were presented to him for his gal- 
lantry in battle. He was once captured by Bloody Bill Cun- 
ningham and was about to suffer an ignominious death when 
he was fortunately rescued by his men. His son Stephen 
Herndon was born and lived in Newberry. And Newberry 
gives a hearty welcome to Mrs. John S. Fair and Mrs. Lam- 
bert W. Jones, two fair and lovely descendants of Colonel 
Herndon of the Revolution. 

The Eeid Family. 

David Keid, who lived three and one-half miles ea.st of the 
town of Newberry, came to South Carolina from County An- 
trim, Ireland. He landed in Charleston, South Carolina, in 
1789 or 1790, and settled in Fairfield County in the neigh- 
borhood of Monticello. He remained there two years, then 
removed to Newberry County and settled on the place three 
and a half miles from town. He had a family of one and 
perhaps two children when he came to this country. He 
raised a family of seven sons and lived to see them all settled 
around him. 

David Reid w-as highly educated. His education was in- 
tended to prepare him for the study of medicine, which he 
pursued to some extent, but never completed. He was a man 
of intelligence and of excellent conversational powers. He 
was fond of reading and had quite a respectable library for 
that day, and was the first man in his neighborhood who 
subscribed for and took a newspaper. During the w^ar of 
1812 he took the Charleston Merciirt/, which was a week old 
before it reached Newberry. His neighbors would gather in 
to hear the news of the progress of the war. About 1810, or 
thereabouts, he built a mill on Cannon's Creek, which was 
among the first mills erected in Newberry. A few years later 
lie built a cotton gih to run by water. It was one of the 
lirst in the country. It is not now known that he ever held 
any ofiicial position, or had any aspirations in that way. His 
sons who settled around him were all farmers, and acquired a 
competency. Daniel Reid, the eldest son, in 1812 was in com- 



AKNALS OF NEWBERRY. 581 

mand of a troop of cavalry, and was held under orders to 
march at short notice, but was not called into service. When 
Nullification caused the people to assume a warlike attitude, 
the men of the county who were over age for active service 
were formed into companies, and Daniel Reid was assigned to 
the command of one of those companies. 

Samuel Eeid, one of the sons of David Reid, was for many 
years a Justice of the Peace. He was First Lieutenant of a 
Cavalry Company during the Nullification excitement. Colonel 
Simeon Fair being Captain. Samuel Reid at his death was 
an Elder of Cannon Creek Church. 

David Reid and four of his .sons rest in the churchyard at 
Cannon Creek Church. All his sons, but one, William, died 
in this State; and of those who died in the State only one, 
David, died outside of Newberry County. The sons were 
Daniel, William, David, John, James, Samuel and Joseph. 
There was a daughter named Elizabeth, but she died when 
about twelve years old. 

Joseph S. Reid was Lieutenant-Colonel of a Mississippi 
Regiment during the war of Secession and served with honor 
in all the campaigns of the West. 

Lieutenant Colonel R. C. Maffett, 

Son of James Matfett, was born in Newberry County. My 
acquaintance with Colonel Maffett was quite limited. I only 
knew him to be a sterling, upright and true man; a farmer, 
living a few miles below the Court House when the war broke 
out. He had never sought nor desired any office in the gift 
of the people, preferring the calm, domestic home life to 
all other. But when the difficulties between the States 
culminated in Secession and war he was not slow to offer his 
services, nor was he backward in doing his best for the sue 
cess of the cause he espoused. He was elected Captain of 
Company C, Third Regiment South Carolina Volunteers; was 
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and serving in 
that capacity when he had the misfortune to be made pris- 
oner. He was immured in the Union Prison at Fort Dela- 
ware, where he died. 

At the time of his death he was a young man in the very 
prime of life between thirty and forty years of age. He left 



C82 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

a young Avidow and child to deplore his loss. The followincr 
note was written by him to a lady who was a witness to his 
capture and who kindly complied with the request therein 
contained: "Lieutenant-Colonel R. C. Maftett, Address Mrs- 
R. C. Maffett, Newberry C. H.. So. Ca. Tell her that I am 
a prisoner, am well, have been treated very well so far. Ger. 
Sheridan received and treated me with great civility; that I 
think we will be exchanged before long; that I will bear my 
captivity with as much philosophy and resignation as possible; 
that I was unavoidably captured, beiog entirely surrounded 
and overpowered; that she must bear up under our misfor- 
tunes and not become despondent; that I will write just as 
soon as we arrive at our destination." No date. 

Captain James M. Maffett, 
Cousin of Col. R. C. Maffett, was a son of Robert Maffett. 
He was born, I think, in the year 1S21, or perhaps 1S22. 
He too was a married man and a successful farmer when our 
troubles began. He was elected Captain of Company H, 
Holcombe Legion, and was a brave man and good officer. 
At the election for Sheriff of Newberry County in 3804 he 
was the choice of the people, but never lived long enough to 
see home after the election. He died at Lockbart. Miss., in 
hospital, on his way home to assume the duties of the office. 
Lieutenant- Colonel John C. Simkins, 

Who.se name appears on our monument as one of the fallen 
soldiers of Newberry, was a son of Honorable Eldred Simkins, 
long a member of Congress from Edgefield District, and was 
born at Edgefield Court House on the 11th day of March, 
1827. He attended school at Edgefield and at Greenwood, 
South Carolina. He was not a graduate of any college or 
university; in fact, never attended either. But instead, although 
only about eighteen years of age at the commencement of the 
Mexican war, he volunteered as a private in Captain Brooks' 
Company — D— -of the Palmetto Regiment. During the cam- 
paign he was transferred to the Twelfth United States Regular 
Infantry, and as Captain in that Regiment di.stingnished him- 
self at the battle of Churubusco, where he received two 
wounds. He was recommended to the Government for a 
brevet "for gallant and meritorious condu.et." At the close of 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 583 

the Mexican war he returned to civil life — that of a planter. 
In 1850 he married Rosalie, daughter of Judge Wardlaw, of 
Abbeville, and continued to live in Edgefield District until 
about a year before the vy^ar between the States, when he 
bought from the Chappells a plantation in Newberry District 
on the Saluda River about a mile above ChappelFs Depot. 
This plantation is part of what is known as Maxwell's Neck. 

As soon as the State seceded and war was inevitable, he 
was amongst the tirst to offer his services to Governor Pick- 
ens. He was immediately appointed Captain in the First 
South Carolina Regular Infantry. His Regiment was em- 
ployed largely as Artillery. As Commander of Battery Bee 
on Sullivan's Island he did good service in the repulse of the 
ironclads in the naval attack on Charleston, April 7th, 1868, 
when the Keokuk was sunk. 

By successive promotions he became Lieutenant- Colonel of 
his Regiment. On the ir)th of July, 1868, he, with three 
companies of the Regiment, Captains Haskell, Adams and 
Tatum, was ordered to Battery Wagner, our advanced post 
on Morris Island. Here he acted as Chief of Artillery, and 
he and his devoted little band without rest or sleep stood 
under a terrific bombardment until the night of July 18th, 
1803, when the enemy in overwhelming numbers landed and 
assaulted the works.. They Were, however, repulsed with heavy 
loss. In that night assault, at about 9 o'clock. Col. Simkins 
fell pierced through the right lung by a minnie ball. Cap- 
tains Haskell and Tatum were also killed during that engage- 
ment and Captain Adams severely wounded. Colonel Simkins 
was thirty-six years old at the time of his death, and left a 
widow, four sons and a daughter surviving him. 

In his ofiicial relations he was strict but just. A born sol 
dier, he was devoted to his profession. Although a good dis- 
ciplinarian, he was respected and beloved by his comrades. 
He was very modest and retiring but warm-hearted, frank 
and true. His purity of heart was shown in his exceeding 
fondness for children whose company he would seek. 
Brigadier- General John Glenn, 

Son of Dr. George Glenn, and brother to my old friend 
Dr. George W. Glenn, a native of Newberry County, though 
a citizen of Arkansas when the war began, rose to the rank 



5S4 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

of Brigadier-General in the Army of the Confederate States. 
He was for a time a Conductor on the Greenville and Colum- 
bia Railroad after the war. I had no personal acquaintance 
with him, but I havo no doubt that he was a brave and 
gallant officer. Being a native of Newberry and a soldier of 
the Confederacy, he deserves a place here. Where he is now, 
whether living or dead, I do not know. 

CoL. William Drayton RrTHERFOp.n 

Was the son of Dr. Rutherford of Newberry County and a 
descendant, a great-grardson, of Colonel Robert Rutherford of 
Revolutionary fame, who removed from Virginia to Newberry 
about the year 1780. or perhaps just before the American 
Revclationary War. Young Drayton was a man of fine prom- 
ise and liberal education; read law at Newberry; married, in 
1862, a daughter of Colonel Simeon Fair, and life was open- 
ing before him bright and beautiful, with every promise of a 
prosperous and happy career. But the trouble between the 
States having brought on war, he volunteered at an early day, 
before his marriage, entered the service as a private in the 
Quitman Rifles; was made 2nd Sergeant, afterwards Adjutant, 
and finally, after the death of Colonel Nance, was promoted to 
the rank of Colonel of the regiment, the Third, which position 
in the service he was holding when he was killed in the bat- 
tle of Strasburg, Va., October 13th, 1864. He was a brave 
and gallant youth, and gave his life for his beloved South. 

I had not the pleasure of knowing Colonel Rutherford per- 
ponally, never having met him at any time that I can remem- 
ber now. He was in Europe pursuing his legal studies when 
the war began. But I knew his father, and I knew of him as 
one not likely, by any act of his, to dim the lustre that clung 
around the name of his illustrious ancestors. He left a widow 
and one daughter, who still survive. 

An incident in the military life of Colonel Rutherford and 
the history of the Third Regiment has been told me by an eye- 
witness. It is here given, as nearly as can be remembered, in 
the words of the witness and narrator: 

Colonel Rutherford was promoted Colonel from Lieutenant- 
Colonel upon the death of Colonel James D. Nance on the 6th 
of May, 1864 — the battle of the Wilderness. On the night of 
the Tth of May General Grant began his famous flank move- 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKBY. 0(50- 

meut. The rival forces lirst encountered eucli other on the 
"Brock road," leading to Spottsylvania Court House. The 
cavalry, under General J. E. B. Stuart, held that road. While 
on the march early in the morning of the <Sth of May, an old 
^'irginia gentleman, bare-headed, rode up to General Kershaw 
and told him that if the Brock road was to be held his troops 
niu.st do it, as the cavalry under Stuart were being forced to 
give way by the approach of the United States infantry. Gen- 
eral Kershaw r'^sponded to this call by directing his old brio"- 
ade to hurry to the .scene. At the double-quick, liutherford 
soon had his regiment at the ])oint of danger. He threw his 
whole soul into the movement, and was enabled to take pos- 
se.ssion of the rail piles, which had been thrown up by the 
cavalry as a bi'eastwork, ju^t in time to prevent a strong force- 
of United States infantry from taking the i)lace. Gen. Stuart 
remained on the ground after his cavalry had retired and 
a.ssisted, with hat in hand, to .stimulate the Third Regiment to- 
stand firm. A very hot fight ensued. The young Colonel was 
all along his line, giving direction and energy to the fight. 
The result was a victory over the assaulting forces. The line 
thus established was the identical line upon which the battles 
around Spottsylvania Court House were fought on the 8th. 
10th and 12th of May. 

Late in the afternoon of the 8th Lieutenant-General Stuart 
and Lieutenant-General Ewell rode up to the Third and called 
for Colonel Rutherford. After introducing him to General 
Ewell, General Stuart said: "Colonel Rutherford, I have brought 
General Ewell down here to show him how you brave South 
Carolinians can fight." Then turning to General Ewell and 
pointing with his finger to the piles of Federal dead in the 
front of the Third Regiment, he said: "General, all these dead 
are their work." 

P. C. Caldwell. 

Patrick Calhoun Caldwell was born in Xewberrv' District 
March 10th, 1801. He was the son of William Caldwell and 
brother of John Caldwell. 

He graduated from the South Carolina College in 1820, read 
law, and was admitted to practice in 1822. He was for a num- 
ber of years the partner of James J. Caldwell. He was mar- 
ried December 18th, 1827, to Frances E. Nance, daughter of 



580 ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 

Major Frederick Nance. His married life lasted but a few 
years, his wife dying March 3d, 1832. 

In 1836 Mr. Caldwell was elected to the Legislature from 
Newberry, a member of the House; re-elected in 1838. In 
1840 he was elected to represent the State in the Congress of 
the United States from the Congressional District then com- 
posed of the districts of Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield and 
Lexington. In the canvass preceding this election he is said 
to have displayed great ability as a "stump" speaker. His 
opponents were Colonel James H. Irby, of Laurens, and Mr. 
Samuel Barclay, of Fairfield. 

In 1848 he was elected to the Senate of South Carolina from 
Newberry District. He was very popular as a man, as a citi- 
zen, socially and politically. His career as a public man was 
entirely satisfactory to his constituents. He died November 
22nd, 1855, from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, received 
three years before. 

Major James Geaham. 

Major James Graham was a native of South Carolina, of 
Scotch descent. He was Sergeant in active service during the 
war with Great Britain in 1812-15. He served Newberry Dis- 
trict in the State Legislature for two terms. 

He married Mary Fair, daughter of William and Elizabeth 
Fair. By this union four children were born to him, two sons 
and two daughters. 

His son William F. Graham, who was the first Superinten 
dent of the State Military Academy, died in Charleston in the 
spring of 1844. His other son, Dr. DeWitt C. Graham, read 
medicine, and after his graduation practiced his profession in 
Mississippi for a number of years. He returned to Newberry 
about a year before his death. He died in the fall of 1858, 
never having practiced medicine in his native State. 

The daughters of Major Graham were Harriet, who married 
Colonel John W. Summers, the builder of the Greenville and 
Columbia Railroad, and Laura P., who married Dr. David E. 
Ewart, a notice of whose life and services appears elsewhere 
in this book. Mrs. Summers left no children. Mrs. Ewart is 
blest with a son and daughter, William F. and Mrs. Katie 
Bowman, both living in Newberry. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



587 



General A. C. Garlington 

Was a native of Laurens Coiinty; graduated at the Univer- 
sity of Georgia; read law, and in 1848 came to Newberry to 
practice, having married in Newberry, where he soon made a 
tine reputation as a lawyer and orator. He was one of the 
tinest and most eloquent speakers I ever listened to. He was 
a candidate for the Legislature in 1850, when the whole dis- 
trict and the State were excited on the Btmk question. He 
took the side of the bank, and was elected hj a large majority. 
He was again elected in 1852. In 1854 he ran for Congress 
against Preston S. Brooks, and was defeated. He was elected 
State Senat(n- in 185(3, and again in 18G0. During the War of 
Secession he served some months as Major of the Holcombe 
Legion, until his presence was demanded in the Adjutant-Gen- 
eral's ofifice, which he also held. In 1805 he was again elected 
to the House of Representatives — making three terais in the 
House and two in the Senate, fourteen years of legi.slative 
service. After the war he went to Atlanta, Georgia, remaining 
there a few years, and returned to South Carolina, where he 
lived the remainder of his life. 

He died on the 27th day of March, 1885, having nearly 
completed his sixty-second year. 

He was survived by his Avidow, who was Spllie L. Moon, 
daughter of Dr. Peter Moon; one daughter, now Mrs. W. Y. 
Fair, and three sons, Ernest A., Avho graduated at West Point, 
at the head of his class, on June 15th, 1875, and was com- 
missioned as second lieutenant in the United States Army and 
assigned to the Seventh Cavalry, being promoted to first lieu- 
tenant on June 20th of the same year. He commanded the 
expedition sent to the Arctic Sea in 1882 for the relief of Lieu- 
tenant Greeley. He was severely wounded in the right arm in 
a fight with Indians at Wounded Knee on December 29th, 1890, 
and shortly afterwards was promoted to the rank of Captain. 
William M. and Hrrry H., now living in Newberry County. 

Fr.^ncis B. Higgins. 

A very high but not undeserved compliment is paid to this 
gentleman in the first part of this work. As Mr. Higgins has 
passed away since the publication of that part, it is necessary 
that somethincr more should be added. 



r)88 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

As State Senator he represented the county for several terms, 
always holding an influential place in the councils of the State. 
The last several yeai's of his life he spent in retirement, hav- 
ings declined re-election in 1844, after serving as Senator for 
twelve years. As Senator he was always at his post, and kept 
himself fully informed as to every measure brought up. He 
once published a statement giving the population and wealth 
of the different counties of the State. He was a good and use- 
ful man, and from 1831 to the time of his death he was a 
member of the Newberry Baptist Church. 

On the 20th of December, 1803, he attended the funeral of 
Judge O'Neall, and occupied on that occasion, and for the last 
time, his usual seat in the Baptist Church of Newberry. On 
the following morning, December 80th, 1803, having already 
expressed a willingness to go whenever the summons came, he 
Avas striclien with apoplexy, and died in a few hours. He 
was born October 2'2nd, 171)4. 

Mrs. Higgins was born July 10th, 1803, at the place where 
her uncle. Major John Caldwell, was killed by Cunningham in 
1781. Her father was William Caldwell. Her mother was 
Elizabeth Williams, daughter of Major John Williams, member 
of the Provincial Congress which met m Charlestown on the 
11th of January, 1775; who al.so served in the American army 
during the Kevolution. 

Mrs. Higgins' father was also an officer in the army, and 
was held as a prisoner eighteen months at St. Augustine, in 
Florida. After the war he was at different times State Sena- 
tor and Judge of the County Court for Newberry District. 
Two of her brothers became distinguished men, John Cald- 
well, member of the Legislature and an eloquent and eminent 
lawyer, and Patrick Calhoun Caldwell, law^'er, legislator and 
member of Congress. 

She was happily married on the 12th of October, 1820, to 
Francis Bernard Higgins, of Newberry. In 1835 she joined 
the Baptist Church at Newberry, having been previous to that 
time a member of the Associate Reformed Church at Head 
Spring. It is thought that none ai-e now living who welcomed 
her into the Baptist Church at that time. Mrs. Elvira Ruth- 
erford, who recently died at Newberry, was the last of these. 

Mrs. Higgins gave a son to the Palmetto Regiment in the 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 589 

Mexican War, who was a lieutenant in Captain J. H. Williams' 
company, and another son to the Confederate army, who was 
killed during the war. She will long be remembered for the 
amiable and kindly features of her character. She was a Chris- 
tian woman. She died on the 2nd of May, 1889, in the eighty- 
sixth year of her age, in the house at Newberry, now owned 
by Dr. Jas. Mcintosh, in which she had lived continuously for 
about sixty -five years. 

Captain Chesley W^. Herbert, 

Son of Isaac and Frances Herbert, was born June 10th, 1832. 
He was prepared for college at the old Cokesbury Conference 
school, and graduated from the South Carolina College in De- 
cember, 1855. Was married on January 10th, 1850, to Eliza- 
beth S., eldest daughter of Daniel and Emily Goggans. 

When South Carolina seceded he volunteered at the first call 
for troops, and left home for service in Company C, Third 
Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, on Api'il 13th, 1861, the 
day Fort Sumter surrendered. His regiment was shortly after- 
wards ordered to Virginia. He was badly wounded at the bat- 
tle near Gettysburg, July 2nd, 1803. On the retreat to 
Winchester he was captured by United States cavalry, but was 
recaptured in a short time and furloughed until again fit for 
duty. Was again wounded, and this time seriously, by a shot 
through the left knee at the battle of the Wilderness, May 0th, 
1804. He was brought from Virginia to South Carolina on a 
litter, and after months of suffering returned to the army, and 
was discharged just previous to the close of the war, because 
of lameness, which unfitted him for further military service. 

His tragic death is briefly described in a letter written by 
the late General Garlington to Governor Scott: "Did you hear 
of the murder of the gallant Herbert, by a negro who had 
stolen his horse, and had been arrested by him, and who was 
.sharing his bread with the culprit by the roadside?" As he 
was lame, the negro in some way obtained the advantage of 
him, struck bim on the head with a heavy stick, and, while he 
was insensible, took his pistul from his pocket and shot him 
through the head, killing him instantly. 

The tragedy occurred near the Lexington line, on March 8th, 
1806, while the victim was making his way toward his home in 
this county. 



590 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

The murderer was afterwards captured, but escaped jail; was 
recaptured by I. H. Boiilware and A. B. Cromer; was tried, 
convicted aad hanged. Before his execution he confessed to 
having stolen the horse and also to the murder of Captain 
Herbert. 

Captain Herbert was at the time of his death Superintendent 
of Sunday School at New Chapel Methodist Church, and was 
and always had been a true friend to the colored race. 

He left a widow, who is still living, and four children. The 
eldest, D. Oscar Herbert, is now (1S92) a lawyer in Orange- 
burg. The eldest daughter, Emma F., married William L. 
Glaze, Esq., of Orangeburg, S. C, and is still living. One 
daughter died in iofaucy, and another, Minnie E., entered into 
her heavenly inheritance on her birthday, June 25th, 1NS8, 
aged twenty-seven years. 

The Folk Family. 

Jacob Folk came to this country from Germany in 1740 or 
1741, and settled at Old Granby, three miles below Columbia. 
He was a tanner by trade, and lived with a man by the nana' 
of Cary in partnership for five years. When his term of part- 
nership was up he came to the place at Pomaria and married 
the daughter of Adam F. Epting, settled there, and commenced 
the tanning business on his own account. There were born to 
him seven children, four sons and three daughters. The eldest 
died in the Revolutionary war; the second son was killed by 
a tree falling on him; the third son, John Folk, lived at Po- 
maria until his death in 1844. Jacob Folk died on the 20th 
of June, 1774, and lies buried at the old Folk burying-ground. 
From him have sprung numerous and honorable descendants: 
John Adam, Henry Middleton, W. H. Folk, a lawyer in good 
practice at Edgefield; Edward H. Folk, also a lawyer at Edge- 
field; Captain H. H. Folk, of Newberry; David Folk, of Texas; 
L. E. Folk, of Newberry; Dr. J. W. Folk, of Annandale, George- 
town County; Charley Folk, of Lexington; Christian J. Folk, 
of Barnwell, and Jacob Folk, who moved to Colleton County 
in the year 1803, and there left a large family, and J. Wesle}' 
Folk, of Pomaria, whose son. Dr. L. B. Folk, is a practicing 
physician in Columbia, S. C. 

No doubt there are many others descended from Jacob Folk, 
whose names I have not been able to learn. 



annals of newberry. 591 

The Welch Family. 

William and Williams Welch, who were brothers, came from 
Iredell County, N. C, during the first quarter of the present 
century. They were of Quaker parentage. William was a 
worthy, guileless man, but of an impatient and restless temper. 
Ho died in ISoH, aged sixty. Williams was the younger. He 
was of a generous and impulsive nature; a man of clear judg- 
ment and abounding in energy. Though he came to this coun- 
try a poor boy, he accumulated a fortune in the pursuit of 
agriculture, besides rearing and educating a family of eleven 
children. He died in 1874, in his seventy-second year. Pro- 
fessor C. W. W^elch, late Principal of the High School, Hous- 
ton, Texas, and now (1892) Professor-elect in Clemson College, 
and AVilliams Welch, the portrait painter, also Professor-elect 
in Clemson College, both natives of Newberry, are his grand- 
sons. 

Mrs. Lucy Sharp was the sister of Wulliam and Williams 
Welch. She came to Newberry from North Carolina in 1850, 
and died in 185(). She was a woman of unusual industry and 
very kind and generous in her nature. She left two children, 
William, one of Anderson's best citizens, and Mrs. Neville, wife 
of Rev. Mr. Neville of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 

Jacob K. Schumpert. 

Born 20th of October, 1807; died 14th of May, 1885. 

He was the eldest son of Frederick Schumpert and Mary 
Kinard his wife. Jacob K. married, in the year L838. Harriet 
Abney, of Edgefield County, who died November 3d, 1884. 

They celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage in 
1883, in the presence of their children, three sons and three 
daughters, and a host of grandchildren, at the old homestead, 
Elm Grove, seven miles northwest from Newberry Court House. 
The following children survive them: Dr. John I. Schumpert, 
who lives in Louisiana; Mrs. E. M. Kingsmore, who lives at 
Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. C. T. W^ells, O. L. Schumpert and F. 
A. Schumpert, at Newberry, S. C, and Mrs. E. A. Cassity, wife 
of Rev. Mr. Cassity, Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, South, whose home at present is Mansfield, Lou- 
isiana. 

Jacob K. Schumpert was a man of vigorous constitution, 



092 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

strong and evenly balanced mind, and a noble heart; all of 
■which tended to make him one of the finest types of "Nature's 
noblemen." And in addition to what nature's gifts, experience, 
observation and a fair education, with their advantages, had 
done for him, the transforming power of grace had made in 
him one of the most clearly defined and beautifully symmetri- 
■cal Christian characters I have ever met. The loss of his wife 
— a Christian lady of rare excellence — who died a short time 
after the celebration of their half century of married life, 
deeply affected him, and left visible traces of the loss of vital 
power which gave him a presentiment of the early ending of 
his earthly career. They both lie buried in Eosemont Ceme- 
tery. The Revs. Drs. J. Steck and H. W. Kuhns, eminent 
divines of the Lutheran Church, of which Church both Mr. 
and Mrs. Schumpert were members, officiated at the burial 
ceremony. 

Mr. Schumpert was a courteous, kind and hospitable gen- 
tleman, and both he and his wife were very fond of company, 
especially of the company of young people, often having a 
house full for weeks at a time. In their company they 
seemed to live over the days of their youth and always en- 
tered heartily into the most of their sports and recreations. 
He was also kind and strictly just with his slaves, seldom 
allowing them to be punished even for gross refractory con- 
duct. He owned a slave, Jack by name, who, though painfully 
lazy, was a very expert carpenter, and at times pretended to 
be crazy. He was advised by some of his neighbors to place 
Jack in the County Jail. This he did, but as soon as he 
learned that Jack was being flogged with a cat-o-nine tail he 
immediately took him home; and Jack, it is supposed, in 
gratitude for his master's mercy never played crazy any more. 

In his early youth he had acquired the tobacco habit — 
both chewing and smoking. This habit he continued ia for 
forty years, yet always persisted in saying that he could quit 
it whenever he willed to do so. When his oldest son John 
I. came home from the North, after having finished his med- 
ical education, he had also acquired, to his father's intense 
regret, the tobacco habit. This habit John I. endeavored to 
conceal from his father, who, catching him in the act one day, 
without at all scolding him, simply said: "Well, my son, I 




John K. Griffin, M. C. 
James H. Williams, 



P.. }■. (-riffin. 



Francis B. Hi<<gins 

Thos. H. Pope. 



MEMBER -1 OF COXC;rE-;S and state I.E-;i.SLATrKE, 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. O^W 

see that you are using tobacco. I don't blame you, however, 
as I set the example and you followed it. A father never 
should do anything that he would or could reprimand in his 
son. Now I am going to set you another example; follow it, 
also." And, suiting the action to the words, he throAV from 
him the quid then in his mouth, and from that day never 
touched it again. It is useless to say that the son did— no^ 
follow this example. 

Whatever he undertook to do was always done in the most 
thorough and complete manner. All the buildings on his 
jjlantation, from the negro cabin to the mansion house, were 
models of strength, durability and neatness. "He was a devout 
lover of the Word of God, a lover of the Church, liberal of 
liis means, peaceable and a peace-idaker, progressive, always 
consistent, a uell- rounded man in Christ, who.se memory it 
will always be pleasant to cherish and whose life it will always 
])e safe to hold up for the imitation of others." 

Of his other two sons, O.sborne I<amar is a practicing law- 
yer at Newberry and is at present Solicitor of the Seventh 
Circuit. He was a member of the Legislature in 1884-''. 
Frederick A. is a merchant at Newberrv'. 

There were many others of this family whose names should 
not be left out of the roll of the worthies of Newberry. 

Amos K. Schumpert, brother to Jacob K., a sketch of whom 
we have ju.st given, moved to Alabama many years ago. His 
son Ben was a student in Newberry College when the war 
broke out; he volunteered in the Quitman Rifles and was 
killed in battle. His name is on our monument. Amos K. 
Schumpert, I believe, is still living. 

Peter Schumpert, who moved to Edgefield, and left sons 
and daughters, Avas well known to the writer. 

Sam Schumpert, another most excellent man and r^ood cit- 
izen, lived and died near Silver Street, in his native county. 
He was the father of James Jacob. 

George Schumpert, father of Frank, lived for many years 
on his place between Bush River and Saluda, where he died. 
His brother John, father of Cal and Bob, lived in the saras 
neighborhood. 

There was another John Schumpert, who lived in Edgefield, 
near Herbert's Ferry, whom I knew many years ago. It was 
2 ' Q 



594 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

his son Jesse who married Miss Srngley in Newberry. He 
was running a portable steam engine when the boiler ex- 
ploded with fatal results. His son has but one arm, but 
whether the loss of the other was caused by that explosion I 
am not now sure. John, the father of Jesse, had a brother 
William, who died many years ago. 

Elisha Schumpert, brother of Jacob K., Avas a mill owner 
on Bush Eiver; and like his brother, Jacob K., he took great 
jiride in his work and had everything about his mill in perfect 
order. He made as good flour as it is possible for any mill 
to make. I know whereof I speak, for I have had wheat 
ground at his mill. 

Of the ladies, members of this family, there is Mrs. Polly 
Long, widow of my old tfme friend Jacob Long, and mother 
of my present time friend Fred Long. Mrs. David Werts, 
who lived just south and near the Dead Fall, on the Kinard 
Ferry Road. Mrs. Thomas Carson, of Edgefield, mother of 
the Rev. James Carson, a minister of the Baptist Church in 
that county. Mrs. John Paysinger, mother of Ben Paysinger 
(whose widow lives at the old place), and Jacob J. Paysinger, 
and Samuel S., and Thomas M., who was once Sheriff, and 
Fred S. ; and another one, Henry, who was killed in battle 
during the war; and there may have been others whose names 
I cannot now recall. I know of no other Paysingers in the 
county, except these, the descendants of John Paysinger. He 
first settled where Thomas P. Buzhardt, who was married to 
Miss Emma Paysinger, lived and died. 

Mrs. Harriet Schumpert was the daughter of Zachariak 
Abney (whose father was a Virginian), who was born, lived 
and died near what is now Kinard's Ferry on Saluda River. 
He was a baby, if I mistake not, an infant quite small, when 
his father was killed by the Tories during the Revolution. 
They found him sick in bed with fever and in spite of the 
efforts and prayers of his wife they hauled him forth out of 
the house and killed him even in his wife's arms— the sword 
that killed him passing through him and entering his wife's 
body also. House, corn crib, everything was burnt, and the 
only comfort left the widow was her baby boy. He had 
crawled away and hid himself in the midst of some tall weed.s 
near by. Long afterwards, nearly fifty years, I was shown by 



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.1 SOU of Zii'^hariali Abney tho spot where the corn crib had 
stood, and I there saw, mingled with the soil, the grains of 
corn burned to a coal that day, still in perfect preservation. 

The mother of ^NTrs. Harriet Schumpert was a Townsend, 
and her fathers father also passed through the fires of the 
Revolution. His house and premises were sacked and burned, 
but he escaped, barely with his life. He had time, and just 
time, to hide himself, without having been seen by his enemies, 
in a pile of brush near the house. And while the house was 
burning the heat was so intense where he lay concealed as 
to be almost unbearable. But he did bear it and so escaped 
with his life. 

The country near the mouth of Tosty Creek, on both sides 
of the Saluda, had many Tories led by Cunningham and the 
Turners, especially Ned Turner, and their treatment of the 
Whigs was sometimes very savage, which treatment some of 
the Whigs were not slow to return in kind. The compiler of 
these Annals was born and reared not far from the swamps 
of Saluda, near the fields which were the scenes of many a 
bloody conflict. And I remember well when the family of 
Stewarts and their kinsmen, the Thompsons, were under the 
ban on account of Revolutionary times. And it was said 
Alick, or Alexander, Stewart still kept a Red Coat hid away 
as a Revolutionary relic, preserving and cherishing it as a 
memento of the good old times. 

Abram Moore. 

On the ()th day of June, 1889, at a little over the age of 
ninety three years, died Abram Moore, having been born on 
the 18th day of March, 1796. He was a native of this county, 
and nearly the whole of his long life was passed in a quiet 
home-life on his farm near Prosperity. W'hen a young man 
he spent two years with an elder brother in Fairfield. 

Of Scceder stock, he was brought up in the admonition and 
fear of the Lord, and at an early age united with the Church. 
At the age of twenty-six he was made an Elder, and held 
that dignified position to the end of his life, sixty-seven years. 
His attendance at church was so prompt and regular that 
whenever he was absent people and pastor always thought 
there was something the matter to prevent his attendance. 



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On the 21st of January, 1822, he was happily married to 
Elizabeth Brown. Eight children were born to them, four of 
whom died before the death of their parents. They lived 
together in happy wedlock over sixty years. Mrs. Moore died 
tirst, about six years before he was called. 

His memory ran back to the time when small grain was 
cut with reap hooks, then with the scythe and cradle, and he 
lived to see the great reaping machines now in use. He 
could tell how tobacco, once a staple article in Newberry, used 
to be hauled to Charleston in a hogshead, and the hogshead 
itself was the wagon. And when he was a boy the first ne- 
groes were brought to that part of Newberry, and their ap- 
pearance so startled and frightened him that he ran from 
them as he would from a bear. He remembered when there 
were no houses at Prosperity, when it was indeed Frog Level, 
with deep clear ponds of water surrounded by thick woods, 
and many deer coming down to the ponds to drink. He re- 
membered the war of 1S12, and the embargo, and when wagons 
sometimes went overland to Philadelphia and to bring goods 
back from, that city. So many changes have taken place since 
his boyhood that to sit and hear him talk was almost like 
listening to one who lived befoi*e the flood. 

He died as he had lived, at peace with all men and at 
peace with God. 

John A. Moore and John W. Chapman. 

These two gentlemen were both natives of Newberry; both 
read law, and both left the county to practice their profession. 
Mr. Moore went to Columbia, the other to Kingstree, Wil- 
liamsburg County. They married sisters, Miss Sarah Arthur 
^,bd Miss Amanda Arthur, sisters of Edward J. Arthur, Esq. 

John W. Chapman left a widow. Mrs. Amanda Chapman, 
(who once taught the Hartford School,) but no children. She 
now lives with her nephews, the Killians, about twelve miles 
above Columbia. Mrs. Moore lives in Columbia, at the place, 
I believe, where her husband died. Two children live with 
her, one son and one daughter, Annie, who was a lovely girl 
and woman, but I have not seen her in a long time. She, 
too, once taught school in this county, at or near Mr. Cle- 
land's, not far from Silver Street. 

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he once told me a story on himself ia connection with the 
Quaker Meeting House on Bush Eivor. That, housf, as per 
haps my readers well know, had the reputation of being a 
haunted spot; but why, it would be hard to say, as the peo 
pie, who worshiped there in old days, were certainly a goof^, 
quiet folk. But whether haunted or not it had the reputation 
and that answered every purpose. Mr. Moore said that o:t<> 
Saturday afternoon, having holiday, he thought he would take 
his gun and walk down to Bush Kiver hunting. The road 
passed right by the House, which was deeply embosomec' 
in woods. The spot was lonely and he was alone. When he 
came near the house, looking up he saw high up in a tree, 
in the edge of the Avoods, a large owl with its white breast 
directly towards him. He raised his gun and fired, and the 
owl, instead of flying off or falling directly down to the earth, 
came sailing in a straight line towards him. All at once it 
flashed across his mind that there was something eerie in its 
performance; that it might be one of the ghosts haunting the 
place, and he broke and ran towards Newberry for dear life. 
He ran some two hundred yards or so and finding that noth- 
ing caught him he thought he would stop and investigate. 
He returned to his former standpoint and found the poor owl 
lying on the ground near where he was standing when he 
fired, crippled but not dead. He said he picked it up and 
returned home and hunted no more that day. 

Mr. Moore was a good lawyer, a prosperous and energetic 
man. His eldest son, Arthur, married and settled in Colum- 
bia; he was a lawyer, but he too is dead — died a few years 

ago- 
Many of the older citizens of Newberry, no doubt, still re- 
member Mrs. Esther Moore, the mother of John A. Moore. 
Her neat, quick, bird-like ways were very pleasant. My ac- 
(juaintance with her was very limited, but I knew her well by 
sight, and it always gave me pleasure to meet her. 

Dear Reader, it is a pleasure, but of a mournful kind, to 
recall the past and jot down recollections of persons and 
events long gone. But can an old man, whose active life is 
over, find better employment than this? There is one danger 
attending it and that is that the Recorder of past events 
loses, by degrees, active interest in the present, and comes at 



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lasi. to regard passiug events and persons as matters giving 
work, «ind oulv thi.^. for the pen of the future historian. 

An Old Family Bible. 

The Bible belonging to the Chapman family, the family of 
the compiler of these Annals, was printed in the year 1G13, 
• lid is at the present time, 1892, two hundred and seventy. 
iiijio years old, and, as I have been informed, is in a good 
state of preservation without a leaf missing. 

It appears from the Family Record in it that it belonged 
in 1G04 to Thomas Anderson, of Bridlington, in the East 
Riding of Yorkshire, England. Thomas Anderson died on the 
5th of May, 1G83, being the father of three daughters and 
one son. His daughter, Elizabeth, born 3d of April, 1673, 
was married to Marmaduke Jackson, on the l-lth of February, 
1707, at Bridlington. These seem to have had but two chil- 
dren, Nathaniel Jackson, born 20th of April, 1708, and Sarah 
Jackson, born 27th of December, 1710. Sarah Jackson became 
the wife of Giles Chapman, who was born January 4th, 1702. 
These were the parents of six children, Elizabeth, Samuel, 
Rachel, Joseph, Sarah, Giles — the eldest born January 28th, 
1734: the youngest, Giles, June 21st, 1748. This Giles Chap- 
man afterwards became the Rev. Giles Chapman, the grand- 
father of this writer. He married Mary Summers on the 14th 
of September, 1775. These were the parents of eleven chil- 
dren, the eldest of whom, Joseph, was born September 23d, 
1776, and the youngest, Lewis, was born March 11th, 1800. 
He died April 13th, 1860. Lewis married Rhoda O'Neall, who 
was born April 29th, 1802. She is still living, at Appleton 
City, Missouri, with her son James K. P. Chapman, to whom 
the old Family Bible now belongs, and who gave me the fore- 
going information. 

It does not appear at what time my great-grandfather, Giles 
Chapman, left Bridlington, England, and came to Virginia; 
nor when he left Virginia and came to Newberry, but on 
"immigrating to this State, first located himself for a season, 
at the place of our town." He lies buried, if I mistake not, 
in an old burying ground, two miles east of Newberry, known 
as the Chapman Graveyard, on a place now belonging to Mr. 
J. A. Crotwell. 



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The first edition of the English version, King James', of 
the Bible now in use, was printed in 1611, only two years 
before the one of which I have here made record, and I think 
it doubtful whether there is a Family Bible of King James' 
version now in the United States older than this. 

Kev. Thomas Fbean. 

The following sketch of the life of Kev. Thomas Frean was 
written by Judge O'Neall near the close of his own useful life. 
Mr. Frean was for many years a citizen of Newberry and in 
jmblic life, married here, and certainly deserves a place in the 
Annals of Newberry. I copy from the original manuscript: 

"The request of a dying friend is now about to be performed. 
A friendship of near fifty years pointed to the writer as one 
better fitted to discharge the duty than any other. It had 
been, too, the sad privilege of him to write short sketches of 
the wife and daughters and son of the deceased. He had 
mourned with him under these sad dispensations. He had 
witnessed his days of adversity and prosperity, and finally saw 
the shades gathering over the evening of life. His request, 
therefore, to do something like justice to his memory in a short 
sketch of his life, was imperative. 

"He was a native of Grange, in the Parish of Lorha, of the 
County of Tipperary, Ireland. His father was Patrick Frean, 
of Grange, Parish of Lorha, in the County of Tipperary, Ire- 
land. Thomas Frean was born on the 15th of January, 1793. 
He received a good education at the home of his birth. He 
was, on the 7th of March, 1807, bound an apprentice for the 
term of six years to a merchant, John Cantwell, of the town 
of Parsonstown, in Kings County, and served some time. Why 
he left the home of his birth I never certainly knew. 

"He was the only child of his parents. From dark hints in 
a conversation with him, I presume it was from diflSculties with 
a Catholic priest who had the charge of his education. He 
visited Charleston, S. C, and his relatives, somewhere between 
1809 and 1814. His purpose was only a temporary sojourn. 
The war of 1812, while he was there lingering, occurred, and 
closed the possibility of an early return. Under the act of 
Congress, he with an Englishman of the name of Thomas was 
sent into the interior, and opened a store on Bush River, New- 



ilOO AXXALS OF NE^BEBRY. 

berry District, at the place once known as O'NealTs, then the 
property of Levi Hilburn. 

"The writer has a vivid recollection of his person when he 
tirst saw him in the year 1818 — his fine Irish youthful com- 
plexion, surrounded with natural curled ringlets, has never 
been forgotten. He was thrown into the society of his wife, 
Hannah Elmore, the daughter of Mathias and Rebecca his wife. 
Both were young, he a little over twenty and she approaching 
eighteen. The grandmother of the latter was an Irish lady, 
and had a warm regard for all who were from the land of her 
birth. She used to call Frean her young countryman, and 
encouraged his addres-.e-!. In the year 1818 he returned to 
Charleston, but kept up the pursuit of his love until the spring 
of 1814, when he was marriel by the Rev. Giles Chapman, at 
the house of his father-in-law. The grandmother of his wife 
was present, and wished each of her granddaughters an equally 
good match. 

"Subsequent events led her to doubt the propriety of the wish. 

"He returned to Charleston, and in a small way embarked 
in the m?rcantile business at the lower end of King street, 
near the South Bay, where I found him and his wife in May, 
1814. He did not remain long there. He removed to Newberry 
District and kept a store at Spear's, now CNeall's, Mills, Bush 
River. How long he remained there I cannot tell. Misfor- 
tunes and misunderstandings occurred. He abandoned his fam- 
ily, and returned to the lower country. He taught school for 
a short period in the neighborhood of the Four Holes. 

"He was reconciled to his family, and settled on a small 
tract of land given to his wife near Mendenhall's Mills. Here, 
in poverty, distress, and the use of intoxicatmg drinks, he lived 
a life of suffering. School teaching was his employment. At 
the death of his wife's grandmother, by her will his wife was 
entitled to and received a negro girl. After 1820 he accom- 
panied his wife's father and family in a removal to Spartan- 
burg. There he lived a life of great povert\'. School teaching 
was his employment. While he lived in Spartanburg his 
household property was seized and sold vmder execution and 
purchased by a friend. More than twenty years after, when 
the whole transactian was forgotten by his friend, he recalled 
it and repaid the money. He returned after several years to 



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Newberry, reoccupied his old place, taught school, abandoned 
the use of strong drink, and was converted and became a local 
Methodist preacher. In, perhaps, 1834 he sold his wife's inter- 
est in the small tract of land, and purchased the Hendrix tract 
of land, on which his daughter and son-in-law now reside. 
By the assistance of a friend who became his surety, he was 
enabled to pay for the land. This wai the turning point of 
his life. Adversity ceased to haunt his footsteps. In sobriety 
he sought and found prosperity. In 1S38 (the Church record 
says LSST)) he became satisfied that he was wrong in his relig- 
ions profession. He was baptized (October 2-l:th, 1835, accord- 
ing to the Minutes), by immersion at the fount near Xewberry 
and united himself to the Baptist Church at Xewberry. He- 
was soon after licensed and subsequently ordained to preach 
the gospel. 

"He became pastor of the Newberry Baptist Church, of the 
Rocky Spring Baptist Church, and the supply of other churches 
in Newberry and Laurens. In 1841 he became a candidate for 
Surveyor General, and was elected. He entered on the duties 
of his office in February, 1842, and removed to Columbia. 
For four years he discharged with great exactness and fidelity 
the duties of his office; for he was an active and intelligent 
surveyor of many years' practice. In the latter years of his 
term of office he was employed to prepare copies of the plats 
in the Surveyor General's office in Columbia and Charleston. 
This work he finished with great fidelity and exactness. His 
charge was supposed to be too high, and the Legislature laid 
upon his work an unsparing hand and cut down his charges 
to a most beggarly amount, while they allowed the Secretary 
of State, for a similar work, a much larger amount. In the 
beginning this produced unfriendly feelings to him on the part 
of many good men. It for a time alienated his friend Major 
Perry. But subsequent examination satisfied him that Mr. 
Frean had not had justice done him. After many years of 
trouble an approach to compensation for that and other work 
was allow'ed him. He never was satisfied with the justice 
attempted to be meted to him. It was a source of bitterness 
to him throughout life, and was not forgotten in his last will 
and testament. 

"For years he discharge 1 the duties of Deputy Treasurer,. 



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and uniformly was praised for the exactness with which he did 
his duty. His work called "Ten Years in the Treasury" was 
invaluable to the country. 

'•During his official terms he preached occasionally in Colum- 
bia and its vicinity. His leisure hours he deA-oted very much 
to poetry. He wrote many fugitive pieces which were worthy 
of 'Carolan,' which was the nom de plume under which he 
usually wrote. He sometimes wrote some pieces of humor 
under the signature of 'Peter Pheasant.' 

'"To his children he gave the means of a good education. 
His .son, ^Yilliam Herman Frean, graduated at the South 
Carolina College, and subsequently attended the course of lect- 
ures at the South Carolina Medical College which was to lit 
him to be a physician. But it so happened in the providence 
of God that he should be taken away in July. 1855, just as 
he passed his twenty-first year. 

"His daughter Hannah Beltou, remarkable for her agreeable 
character, was next stricken down. She died the 15th of No- 
vember, 1855. Next followed the wife and mother, Hannah 
Frean. She died 29th June, 1850. To this gloomy catalogue 
must be appended his daughter Abigail Caldwell Southern, 
who died on the 12th day of November, 1859. 

"Thus he was smitten until his house was left desolate, for 
his only surviving daughter, Bridget Honoria AValdrop, resided 
in Newberry District. In solitude and sadness he was left to 
muse on his condition and to prepare for the final end of life. 
He died at the hou.se of his son-in-law, Wilson W. Waldrop, 
on Sunday, the 7th of April, 1800. 

"He was a fervid, impassioned and impulsive speaker. He 
was a real Tippevary man. He resisted whatever he supposed 
to be oppression, and he might have on such occasions been 
excessive in his violence. Generally speaking, he fiulfilled the 
poet's prayer: 

"That mercy which I to others show, 
That mercy show to me." 

'*He was a perfectly honest man. He became a Temperance 
man about the year 1838, and scrupulously adhered to the 
doctrine of total abstinence." 

Gregg, Spence, McCalla, Todd. 
Near three miles from the town of Newberry, southeast, there 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 008 

stands a tombstone of marble bearing three inscriptions to the 
memory' of three departed relatives, viz. : 

"To the memory of William Gregg, Sr., who departed this 
life on the lOth day of November, 1810, aged seventy-one 
years." 

"Also, of Mary Spence, wife of Samuel Spence and daughter 
of William and Jane Gregg, who departed this life on the 1-lth 
day of September, 1828, in the fortieth year of her age." 

"Likewise, of Jane Gregg, who departed this life on the 14h 
day of 'September, 1828. aged eighty-four years." 

Mrs. Mary Spence, here mentioned as the daughter of Wil- 
liam and Jane Gregg, and wife of Samuel Spence, had for her 
lirst husband Samuel McCalla, Esq., who came to this country 
and settled on the land afterwards owned by Major James 
Graham, then l)y Chancellor Job Johnstone, now by his son, 
J. Malcolm Johnstone. Samuel McCalla was compelled to 
leave Ireland about 1798 because of the part taken by him in 
some political troubles in that unhappy country. Having to 
leave the country to avoid arrest, he left his wife and little 
son Robert, only two or three years old. He seems to have 
come directly to Newberry and settled on the above-mentioned 
place, his wife and son Robert not coming to America until 
1817. The son he had left a sportive boy was now a young 
man of al)Out twenty one years. Mrs. Mary McCalla and son 
itobert trailed from Belfast, Ireland, October 12th, 1817, on the 
ship Cyrus, commanded by Captain Gassard, and landed at 
Charleston, S. C, November, 8()th, 1817. 

Andrew Todd came from Ireland to this country in ]810, 
and his wife and children came over in the same vessel with 
Mrs. Mary McCalla in 1817. This family of Todds settled in 
Laurens County. One of the daughters married Rev. Samuel 
P. Pressley, who was pastor of the Associate Reformed Church 
in this county, and lived in the house on Caldwell street com- 
monly known at this time as the W'ebb house. Drs. Samuel 
Todd, a brother of Andrew Todd, practiced medicine very suc- 
cessfully in Newberry for a number of years, afterward moved 
to Laurens C. H.. where he died on the 3d of June, IS2'), 
aged sixty -three years. 

There is nothing to show the exact date when the Gregg 



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family came to America, but it is quite i:)robable that they came 
over prior to the coming of Mrs. Mary McCalla. Nor is it now 
known what part Samuel McCalla took in the troubles in Ire- 
land; but he was a man of fine intellect, of good education, 
and qualified ia every respect to become a leader. He was 
ruling elder in the Associate Reformed Church at Cannon 
Creek, arid was for many years a Justice of the Peace for 
Newberry District. He was well liked and had great influence 
among his acquaintances. He died not long after being reunited 
to his family, and was buried at Cannon Creek. His widow 
married Samuel Spence, who also came fronu Ireland, luit at 
what time is not known. Mr. Spence was a tailor by trade, 
and settled and died on a place west from the present Colony 
Church. Samuel Spence had a brother, James Spence, who was 
a ixierchant, but for the last few years of his life taught school. 

After the death of his mother in 1823 Robert McCalla, with 
the Gregg family, some time between 1825 and 1880 removed 
to Georgia; then to Lincoln County, Tennessee; then to Shelby 
County, Tennessee, where most of the descendants of Samuel 
McCalla now live, worthy scions of an honorable ancestry. 

Captain John McCalla, son of Robert, was an officer under 
General Forrest in the war between the States, and it is said 
that General Forrest would never go into a battle unless he 
had Captain McCalla at his side. 

For the foregoing facts the compiler of these Annals ac- 
knowledges his indebtedness to Joseph S. Reid, Esq. 

Jacob Hunt. 

My old friend Jacob Hunt was a native, I think, of North 
Carolina; came to Newberry in his youth; married a daughter 
of Walter Herbert, one of the Quakers of Bush River. Mr. 
Hunt was a hatter by trade. Some hats of his make were 
worn by myself when I was a boy- He livel for many years 
at Newberry, or rather near Newbeny, at the place now owned 
by J. A. Crotwell. He was a good neighbor, citizen and a 
true friend. One of his son's, I. F., became Colonel of a 
South Carolina Volunteer Regiment duri ig the war of Seces- 
sion — now at Greenville, S. C. One, W. H., familiarly known 
as Herbert, lives at Newberry. A grandson, Walter H., is a 
successful lawyer in practice at Newberry. One other son, 
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attained the rank of Major during the war and did faithful 
service to the Confederacy. Another grandson, I. Hamilton, 
is now in business in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Colonel John S. Renwick. 

This very excellent man, a native of Newberry County, and 
who spent his long life as one of its citizens, was of Scotch 
descent, and a not very remote descendant of James Renwick, 
the last Scotch martyr. He became a member of King's 
Creek Church in early manhood and remained in connection 
with it until the day of his death. The circumstances of his 
early life prevented him from acquiring a first-rate education, 
but he knew its worth and he gave his sons and daughters 
the best that could be obtained. He was the first to suggest 
to Dr. Bonner, then in charge of the Female Academy at Due 
West, the propriety of converting that institution into a Female 
College. He had no political aspirations, but M'as content to 
do his duty as a private citizen, a farmer and member of the 
Church, in which he was a Ruling Elder for nearly the whole 
of his life. This good man died March lV)tb, 1889, in the 
THth year of his age. 

Dr. Wm. W. McMorries 

Died at the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and 
Mrs. Cofield, in Union County, S. C, August 22nd, 1888. He 
was born April loth, 1808. This date carries us far back in 
the history of our county. At that time there were only six- 
teen States in the Union and Jefferson was President, and 
there were still many surviving soldiers of the Revolution. 

Dr. McMorries was a graduate in the Medical School of 
Philadelphia, but he did not practice long. He united himself 
with the Associate Reformed Church; was made a Ruling Elder 
in Thompson Street Church at Newberry in 1858, while Mr. 
Murphy was pastor. It is said that he took great delight in 
his office and performed its duties faithfully and well. His 
family loved him; he was a cheerful and tender father; his 
life companion was of the same cheerful temper and they 
made a happy household. He r; Ised seven children, but ooly 
three daughters — Mrs. Johnson, of Alabama, Mrs. Dr. Gri r, of 
Du.e West, S. C, Mrs. Cofield, of Union, S. C, — end one step- 
son, J. C. S. Brown, of Newberry, survive him. 



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Dr. William H. Harrington 
Was a native of Newberry County and was born at Newberry 
Village on the 17th of November, 1816. He received a good 
education, read medicine and graduated from the Medical 
College of Charleston, settled at Newberry and on the 18th 
of November, 1841, married Mi.ss Sarah S, O'Neall, daughter 
of Hon. J. B. O'Neall. After her death, which occurred in 
August, 1857, he married Mrs. Hollingsworth, nee Griffin, in 
December, 1858. While his home was at Newberry he rep- 
reseated the county in the Legislature for two years. He left 
Newberry in 1865 and removed to Mississippi, where he died 
at, his home in CrawfordTille. His remains have been brought 
to Newberry and interred in the Calmes Cemetery, where his 
maternal grand-parents, his own parents and many more of 
his kindred are sleeping. He was the father of Mrs. Dr. 
Sampson Pope, the late Mrs. J. Wistar Gary, and the late 
Young John Harrington, and of Mrs. Thomas J. Lipscomb, of 
Columbia, S. C. He leaves a son, Dr. Belton Harrington, and 
a daughter, Mrs. Kier, in Mississippi, and a son, Hugh O'Neall 
Harrington, in Texas. His widowed sister, Mrs. Nancy Moon, 
still lives at Newberr}^ He was a good man. 

Major Z. W. Carwile, 

The son of the late John S. Carwile, and the last surviving 
brother of Mr. John B. Carwile, of Newberry, died of apoplexy 
at the residence of his son Nathan G. Carwile, in Buffalo, 
Wyoming Territory, on the 30th of November, 1888. 

Major Carwile was born in Newberry Disti-ict in 1818, and 
came in his early boyhood to Newberry Village. When quite 
young he went to Columbia, where, with Mr. B. D. Boyd, 
President of the old Bank of Newberry, he entered the mer- 
cantile establishment of his cousin John H. Carwile. After a 
year or two he returned to Newberry, where he remained until 
about 1841, when he removed to Edgefield District (now coun- 
ty), of which he remained a citizen until his death. A short 
time ago he went to Buffalo to visit two of his sons who 
reside at that place. 

He was a member of the House of Representatives from 
Edgefield for several terms, and was for a good many years 
Commissioner in Equity for Edgefield County. 



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007 



Major Carwile was a man of uiinsual mental power.-^. Al- 
though bis school education was limited, by reason of his 
having at an early age entered into business pursuits, yet he 
had by reading and observation so cultivated his intellect that 
he was in the best sense an educated man. His friends re- 
maining in Newberry, who knew him both in times of pros- 
perity and adversity, will bear testimony to his faithfulness as 
a friend and his unflinching adherence to the right. Major 
Carwile was at the time of his death, and bad been for many 
years previous, a consistent member of the Baptist Church. 
James Packer 

Was a native of England. He came to America in I808 
and to Newberry in 1808, where he remained a good and useful 
citizen until the day of his death. He married here, read 
law and was a good and reliable lawyer and business man, — 
admitted to the Bar in 1878 — had already bean appointed 
Trial Justice by General Hampton in 1877. As a lawyer he 
was heard in the Supreme Court with marked attention, and 
was very successful. 

I knew him well; he was a good man and a genial and 
faithful friend, and was a fine example of what patient in- 
dustry can accomplish in overcoming early disadvantages. 

He died on Thursday, 14th day of May, 1885, leaving a 
widow but no children. 

Major James M. Baxter 

Was a native of Laurens County; made law his chosen pro- 
fession; came to Newberry to practice; married one of New- 
berry's loveliest daughters and made his home here until he 
died. He was one of the best lawyers that ever practiced at 
this Bar. His mind was too broad and comprehensive to be 
trammeled with forms and technicalities, but easily mastered 
the strong points of his cases, and seized and applied with a 
masterly hand the broad principles of Law and Equity upon 
which our judicial system is founded, and which embodies the 
united wisdom and experience of ages. It was this devotion 
to principles that gave him his great power with jurors and 
Judges. He was a man of a large heart and head; kind and 
courteous to all; and a true and steadfast friend, a patriotic 
citizen. He was Major of the Third Regiment, South Carolina 
Volunteers, the first year of the war. 



'COS ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

Major Baxter was gifted with rare intellectual powers and 
endowed with faculties which eminently fitted him for the 
profession which he adorned so highly. He was not what 
might be called a popular speaker, abounding in the graces of 
oratory and possessing the power to sway the thronging mul- 
titude. He seldom attempted flights of fancy, but always spoke 
in language unadorned, but pux'e and chaste. As a lawyer he 
was earnest and zealous in whatever business was committed 
to his charge, and exhibited untiring industry in the cause of 
his clients, such as is rarely equalled. He was a formidable 
adversary at the Bar under any circumstances, but most dan- 
gerous when his case appeared to be most hopeless — he gath- 
ered new strength and rose to the emergency as his case 
trembled in the balance. He did not know the word fail. 

I knew him well for twenty-five or thirty years — had many 
business transactions with him during that time and always 
found him prompt, genial and courteous. 

For many years he was a member of the Presbyterian 
Church and died in that communion. He died February oth, 
1881 — born September 7th, 1825. He left a widow and three 
children — one son and two daughters. William, his son, has 
died since his father; the daughters still survive — the eldest, 
Lucy, is the wife of Walter H. Hunt, Esq., a lawyer in good 
practice at Newberry; the latter daughter, Miss Fannie, is a 
lovely and amiable young lady living at Newberry with her 
mother. 

Christian Henrt Suber. 

The hearts of the people of Newberry were made very sad 
when it was said "Major Suber is paralyzed." And the sadness 
was deepened when word came: "Major Suber is dead." Small 
hopes were entertained from the first of his recovery, but it 
was not thought that he would die so soon. I do not think 
that any man ever lived in the village or town of New- 
berry, more personally popular, or more deserving to be so, 
than Christian H. Suber. In society and at the Bar, with 
old and young; with the high and low, Mr. Suber was a 
favorite. He retained his youthfulness, cheerfulness and vi 
vacity of manner to the last. 

He was an able and conscientious lawyer, and carefully 
studied his cases and weisfhed the evidence both for and 





James N. l-ii-scoiub. 
Albert C. (larJington. 



Christian 11. Ku'oer. 
Thomas C. lirowii. 



MEMBERS OF THE I.EGLSI.ATrRE. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. OO'.t 

against his side of the case. Besides his abiht}^ as a lawyer 
he was well read in literature generally and was a splendid 
Shaksperian scholar. In the tone of his mind, and in its 
evenly balanced make up, he reminded me much of Chan- 
cellor Job Johnstone. I thought he would have made a 
good Judge, and some years ago I said some words to him 
to that effect. But whether he ever entertained such thought, 
or had any ambition to be a Judge, I do not know. 

To the many beautiful things that were said of him at 
the Memorial Meeting, to be published in a neat memorial 
volume, I can add nothing. 

The following lines, at the request of a friend, were written 
soon after his death, but not read at the meeting: 

IN jMEMORIAM^C. H. SUBER. 
1 miss him; has he gone away? 

O, who can tell me where my friend has gone'? 
I saw him, yes, 'twas only yesterday, 

Now he is gone, and I am here alone. 

1 call him, but he does not hear; 

I speak his name in friendship's tenderest tone. 
Is he far off? Far off or very near, 

He answers not and so he must be gone. 
Friend of my youth! All miss him here. 

Night came apace and all his work was done; 
And now he rests in some far happier sphere; 

But O, I miss him so since he has gone. 

Mr. Suber was the son of Solomon Suber, and was born 
Bear Pomaria, in Newberry District, on the 4th day of Sep- 
tember, 1828, and died at his home in Newberry on the 
I'ith day of March, 1890, from a stroke of paralysis which 
he received on the 23d of February, 1890. 

The house in which he was born is still standing and i.s 
occupied by Mr. Wm. Berly at Pomaria. 

He entered the South Carolina College in 1845 and grad 
iiated in 1848; read law and was admitted to the Bar in 
1850, in December — formed a partnership with Silas Johnstone, 
Esq., and began the practice of the law at Newberry. He 
continued practice at Newberry until his death, without in- 
termission except the period of the war. 

He was elected to the State Legislature in 1858 and was 
a member of that body for five consecutive terms. And 

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010^ ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

again served in the House of Representatives for the terru 
of 1878-9. 

After the election of his partner, Mr. Johnstone, Commis- 
sioner in Equity in 185(5, he formed a partnership with 
Gen. A. C. Garlington, which continued for some years. 
After General Garlington's removal to Atlanta in 1800, he 
formed a partnership with J. F. J. Caldwell, under the firm 
name of Suber & Caldwell. This partnership continued until 
Mr. Suber's death. 

He was Quartermaster in the Confederate service; sometimes 
with the Army of Northern Viiginia, and sometimes in Charles- 
ton. On several occasions he represented the county in State 
Conventions, and was a Delegate at Large to the National 
Convention in 1884:. Pie was never married. 

Jasper Abrams and Robert P. Fair. 

At a meeting of the Quitman Riflemen, held near Fairfax 
Court House, Virginia, on the 2yth of Septembei-, 1802, the 
following|Tribute of Respect was unanimously adopted: 

Although our late friends, Jasper Abrams and Robert P. 
Fair, were by sickness forced to obtain a discharge from 
the service — and thus to sever their connection with onr 
Corps — the sad news of their death has excited within us 
deeply painful emotions. Nearly all of the last days of their 
earthly probation were spent in our ranks, and their labors 
were consecrated to the service of their country. Becoming 
soldiers at an early age their patriotism glowed with all the 
tire of youth. With no vain ambition to gratify, their service 
was pure and unselfish — unalloyed with those baser passions 
that oftentimes urge men after military fame and glory. 
Though they espoused a sacred cause with characteristic 
modesty, they yielded to its support their best energies, 
their firmest resolve and even life itself; stricken down in 
the morning of life, bright hopes have perished and two 
brave and youthful spirits have been summoned from this, 
we hope, to a better world. 

May we not prove indifferent to those oft-repeated warnings, 
to prepare for that life which is beyond the grave; "for in an 
hour we know not, the Son of Man cometh." 

Resolvedy That we are deeply pained at the untimely death of our !ate 
friends and fellow- soldiers, Jasper Abrams and Robert Fair; yet, as is our 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. Oil 

iluty, we bow submissively to the will of our great, good and wise God. 

Resolved, That we will cherish their memory and emulate their virtues. 

Resolved, That we sincerely sympathise with their respective families 
in this their sad bereavement, and trust that they may find consolation in 
Him "who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." 

Rei-olred, That a copy of this tribute be sent to the families of the 
deceased, and that it be published in the Newberry papers. 



William Walter Houseal. 

William Walter Houseal was born in Newberry County (then 
District.) on the 15th day of Augtist, 1818. He died at his 
home in the town of Newberry on the 1st day of November, 
1880. The funeral services were held in the Lutheran Cliurch 
on November 2nd, and he was buried in Eosemont Cemetery. 

His ancestors were German. John Houseal, his grandfather, 
was one of the original settlers of the "Dutch Fork.'' John 
Houseal, his father, was an only son. He married Margaret 
Counts, the daughter of Colonel John Counts, and by this union 
there were five children, two sons and three daughters. John 
Houseal died in 1824, at the age of twenty-seven years, when 
William Walter was at the age of six years, and was buried 
on his ]ilantation, which is now owned by Mrs. Jane Barre. 
The death of his only brother left William Walter the sole 
male who bore the family name. He often remarked that he 
owed much in life to the careful training of a pious mother. 
She died in her fifty-sixth year. 

The name was originally spelled Hausihl; then changes were 
made until it became Houseal. The father of William Walter 
wrote on the preface page of a text-book — he was a school- 
master — the following, in a plain, bold hand: "John Houseal, 
his book:- April the 2nd, 1815." This little scrap of paper 
was the only token of his father that remained to William 
Walter out of the wreck of time, and it is still preserved in 
the family as an heirloom. 

He was married December 23d, 1841, to Elizabeth C. Barre, 
daughter of Matthias Barre, who survives him. As a result 
of this union eight children were born to them, six of whom 
still survive, four sons and two daughters, namely: John 
Irving, a machinist in Memphis, Tennessee; James Emlon, 
a merchant in Cedartowu, Georgia; William Preston, one of 



612 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

the j)ublisher.s of the Lutheran Visitor and of the Herald 
and Neirs, and W. Gustave, a physician of Newberry. Of the 
daughters, Mary E. is the wife of D. Julius Hentz, of Pomaria, 
and Mattie V., the wife of Rev. J. Q. Wertz, of North Caro- 
lina. Frances Cornelia died in her twenty-first year, in 1807, 
and Edward Julius in his twenty-fourth year, in 1883. 

There were thirty-eight grandchildren, twenty-seven of whom 
are now (1892) living, and one great-grandchild. 

He was educated at the Classical Institute, Lexington, S. C, 
and taught school several years. He united with the Lutheran 
Church at the age of seventeen, and was confirmed in St. John's, 
having thus been a church member for fifty-four years. 

At the time of his marriage he was living in the Pomaria 
section, but in 1844 he moved to the Beth Eden neighborhood, 
being one of the founders of the Beth Eden Lutheran Church. 
In 1850 he removed to Florida, remaiiiing there a short time. 
Returning to this county, in January, 1853, he moved to the 
town of Newberry, where he resided continuously to the time 
of his death. 

He was one of the original members of the Newberry Lu- 
theran Church, and when the congregation was organized, in 
1853, he was elected one of the officers of the church, serving 
as such to the end of his career, being an elder at the time 
of his death. 

In 1855 he was elected Sheriff of Newberry County, after a 
hotly contested race, defeating his opponent by a large majority. 
He served one term — till 1859 — and was again, in 1863, elected 
to that office. Under the law at that time a Sheriff could not 
succeed himself in office. For two years, 1860-08, he held the 
office of County Assessor. 

He had begun merchandizing in Newberry in 1853, and for 
thirty years he followed that pursuit. In 1802 he volunteered 
ia the Confederate service, but after a short time, his health 
failing, he was discharged without his request. 

Upon the death of Mr. J. K. G. Nance he was appointed Aud- 
itor of Newberry, and was recommended at three successive 
primaries for continuance in that position. In token of his 
efficiency and acceptability as a public official, and of the esteem 
and confidence of those among whom ho had lived for three 
score years and ten, in the primary election in 1888 he was 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 613 

nominated without opposition. He was serving his third reg- 
ular term when his usefulness was estopped by death. 

These in brief are the main facts in the public life of Wil- 
liam Walter Houseal. Faithful to duty, he performed his life 
work in a quiet and unostentatious way. But in his private 
character, in his every day walk and conversation, shone the 
true nobility of his nature. 

His was a life that deserves more than a passing notice, for 
in it and from it many les.sons may be learned that could profit 
others. He was an affectionate husband, a kind and indulgent 
father, a faithful member of the Church, and a true and gen 
erous friend. He was as gentle as a child and generous to a 
fault, always more willing to serve others than to be served by 
them. As a public oflficer he was faithful and painstaking. 
As evidence of his fidelity to duty, only a week before he died 
he got up from his sick bed and came down to assist in draw- 
ing the jury. He was faithful to his trust in whatever posir 
tion he was placed, and went about its performance in a quiet, 
unobtrusive way. True to his church, he lived the religion he 
professed; true to his friends, many were his timely acts of 
kindness; faithful in all things, he was ready when the summons 
came. 

"When our souls shall leave this dwelling, 
The glory of one fair and glorious action 
Is above all the 'scutcheons on our tomb." 

His face we shall see no more. Ho has passed within the 
vail. His place at the fireside is vacant. But his life was not 
lived in vain. Would that we had more such men as was 
William Walter Houseal! 

This tribute, though feeble, must close; and as we drop a 
tear to li's memory wo cannot restrain the thought: 

''That man lives greatly 
Whate'er his fate, or fame, who greatly dies." 

E. H. A. 

A good man dies: an angel stoops and bears 
His spirit from the dust and stain of earth; 
And deatia to him is but another birth 

Into a world that knows no fears nor cares! 



014 annals of newberry. 

The Goggans Family. 

About twenty-five years before the Revolutionary war two 
brothers named Goggans came to Newberry from Virginia. 
One of these, Daniel Goggans, settled on a place which is now 
known as Goggans' Old Field, not far from Mount Zion church. 

These brothers, with their families, wore Whigs, and fought 
for independence under Marion, Sumter, Pickens, and others. 
Daniel Goggans was in Marion's command, and once when he 
was at home on furlough his house was surrounded by a body 
of Tories commanded by the celebrated and notorious Ned 
Turner. He knew that his life would be taken in any case, 
unless he could make his escape, which was impossible; and 
so he fought them from the house until it was set on fire. He 
then came out with his arms in his hands, and was instantly 
shot down. After he was killed the flames were extinguished, 
and the house stood there for many years, with its scorched 
and blackened timbers, a monument of the horrors of that wai. 

All the sons of Daniel Goggans, who were old enough to 
bear arms in defence of their country, perished in that 
struggle. His son-in-law, Towles, ancestor of the Colonel 
Towles who was so long and so favorably known to the 
people of Edgefield County, was home from the army to see 
his family — was sick with smallpox — was in hiding in the 
woods on Saluda, when Ned Turner with a party of Tories 
went to his house, took two of Towles' little boys up behind 
them on their horses and compelled them to go with them 
and show them where their father was hiding. Having found 
him they killed him at once. It seems that the feud between 
the Towlses and the Turners was exceedingly and unusually 
bitter. In an appendix to Curwin's Journal, published not 
long before the war of Secession, there are some interesting 
circumstances related about the feud told from the other point 
of view. 

Daniel Goggans, of the Revolution, who was killed by Tur- 
ner as related, left three sons, who were children at the time 
of his death. These grew up to manhood. One of them, 
Jerry Goggans, married Elizabeth Peterson, sister of Rev. Jas. 
F. Peterson, late of Edgefield County, and also sister of Rev. 
David Peterson, of Newberry, who was the father oE John T. 
Peterson, David Peterson (the father of Warren G. Peterson), 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 615 

and of Captain William Spencer Peterson, who was killed at 
Atlanta, in one of Hood's great fights, during the war of Se- 
cession, in 1864. Hon. John W. Fergusoa is a grandson of 
Rev. David Peterson. 

After his marriage to Elizabeth Peterson, Jerry Goggans 
moved to Ohio, where he soon afterwards died, and was buried 
at Waynesville in that State. His widow returned to New- 
berry, bringing with her their only child, Daniel, who was 
three years old at the time of his father's death, and who had 
been born in Newberry before the removal of bis parents to 
Ohio. He was named Daniel after his grandfather. He was 
a man of strongr and decided character — of weight and in- 
tiuence. 

His children were: E. Jerry Goggans, mentioned in connec- 
tion with the trouble in Kansas, in 1850 and 1857; Wm. 
Davidson Goggans, who was Adjutant of the Thirteenth South 
Carolina Regiment and was killed at the Second Manassas — 
his name appears on the monument; Mrs. E. S. Herbert, once 
postmaster at Newberry, S. C. ; Mrs. Fannie Dantzler, wife 
of Rev. D. D. Dantzler, of the South Carolina Conference; 
James K. P. Goggans and John C. Goggans, now of New- 
berry. 

Capt. E. Jerry Goggans served in the Confederate army 
through the war of Secession; was at the battle of Fort Sum- 
ter as a private; entered the regular service as Third Lieutenant 
in Capt. David Denny's company, which formed part of the 
Seventh Regiment; was elected Captain of Company M in 
1862; took command of the regiment at Chickamauga after 
the death of Col. Bland and continued in command until the 
close of the war in 1865. 

Daniel Goggans, of the Revolution, had two other sons. 
They both removed to Alabama. One of them married a 
Peterson, a sister to the wife of his brother Jerry. These 
brothers did well in Alabama and left a numerous progeny: 
among them may be mentioned Dr. Peter.son Goggans, who 
was surgeon of an Alabama regiment in the Confederate ser- 
vice. Some of the descendants of these two brothers now live 
in Tennessee. 

The descendants of the brother of Daniel who came from 
Virginia to South Carolina before the Revolution, are now 



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ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 



represented by Captain Pickens (loggans, Hogan Goggans and 
Mrs. Lucy Denny, of Laurens, children of William Goggans, 
and by Burr F. Goggans, J Gibbes Goggans; Kate, the wife 
of T. B. Leitzsey; Mollie, wife of A. J. S. Langford; Nora, 
wife of S. S. Langford, and Lula G , wife of Thos. E. Epting, 
children of Joseph Goggans, who lived and died in Newberry 
County. 

It may be of interest to note the change that has taken 
place in the spelling of this name — others have undergone a 
similar change. This name was originally spelled Goggin. 
In fact, it is so spelled yet in Virginia. It so appears in the 
memoirs of William L. and James O. Goggio, of Virginia; and 
James Goggins, of Gen. McLane's staff, used the same form. 
In the old family Bible it appears Goggins, and now iu New- 
berry and elsewhere down South it is Goggans, and so let it be. 

Daniel Goggans, tbe father of Jas. K. P. and Jerry, who 
now lives in Edgefield, and John C, was a man of great force 
of character and sterling integrity. His opportunities to acquire 
an education in early life were not great, and yet he made 
himself a good English scholar; a first rate accountant, and of 
large and extensive general information. Elsewhere in this 
history it is mentioned that he was a very good and success- 
ful teacher. Starting out in life a poor man he accumulated 
a handsome fortune, in the use of which he was liberal for all 
good and proper purposes. He gave his children all the edu 
cation thev "would receive, not countiDjj the cost to himself. 



The Martin Family. 

In writing the history of Edgefield I found a family of seven 
brothers named Martin, all brave men, and good and true 
Whigs. Hoping to be able to connect my old friend, J. Newton 
Martin, with a family so loyal and true, I inquired of him 
whether he was able to tell me anything about them, or whether 
they were connected. He said that so far as he knew there was 
no connection. He then told me that his grandfather, Patrick 
Martin, with his wife, who was a Miss Gordon, came from 
County A-ntrim, Ireland, about the year 1785. The Blairs, 
who were their neighbors in Ireland, came over at the same 
time and settled in the same neighborhood in Nev.berry County. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 617 

Patrick Martin's first wife, Miss Gordon, brought him three 
children: one daughter, who died on the way over and was buried 
in mid ocean, and two sons, John and Alexander, who settled 
in Abbeville County. His second wife, Agnes Strait, whom he 
married in the year 178U, was also from County Antrim. Their 
first son was born in 1700. William Martm, the father of J. 
Newton and John B., lived and did business as a merchant 
at Newberry for many years, where he died. His brother, the 
father of Mrs. Jane A. Long and Jonathan G. Martin, I never 
knew. Newton Martin and John were both good soldiers 
during the war. Patrick Martin died August 24th, 1813; 
Agnes Martin died February 15tb, 1841. John B. Martin 
died at Newberry, April 18th, 1890. Born June 10th, 1839. 

Spence — Caldwell — Montgomery. 

Capt. James Spence was the son of William Spence, who^. 
years before the Revolutionary war, came from Ireland with 
his father, Andrew Spence, and two brothers and two sisters, 
all children of a first wife. Andrew Spence married again, a 
Miss Caldwell, sister of the celebrated "Devil" Joe Caldwell,, 
who was one of General Marion's Scouts during the Revolu- 
tion. Mrs. Esther Spence Montgomery was a daughter of this 
second marriage — half aunt of Capt. James Spence. 

Capt. James Spence commanded a company in the war with 
the Creek Indians, and was within hearing of the sound of the 
guns at the battle of the Horse Shoe Bend, where the Creeks 
were routed and so badly defeated by the Americans under 
General Jackson. Captain Spence was under a General Milton. 
After his return from the war he married Betsy Cannon, a 
half-sister of Abel Cannon and of Mary W^ilson, wife of Elder 
Jimmy. He had only two sons, Milton and Wm. Harrison p 
the older named for General Milton and the younger for Old 
Tippecanoe — grandfather of Benjamin— -who, at the time he 
was in the service, was fighting the British and Indians in the 
Northwest. 

Several Spences were in Captain James' company; Robin, an 
uncle of James, and also John Spence, a cousin. An uncle of 
the present John Spence was fifer of the company. 

William Harrison Spence died early. Milton Spence died 
in the last year of the war between the States. He served 



018 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

some time with the State Troops. These were sons of Capt. 
James Spence, who died in December, 1864. 

Of the family of Captain Spence only two granddaughters 
were living in 181)2, who owned the homestead of their grand- 
father, but lived on the place settled by their father, Milton 
Spence. 

Some of the descendants of "'Devil" Joe Caldwell yet live in 
Newberry. John F. McCleland and his sister, Mrs. Caroline 
Boozer, are his grandchildren. Thomas Q. Boozer and Mrs. 
W. T. Jackson are great-grandcbildroD. "Devil'' Joe was dis- 
tantly related to the family of Robert T. Caldwell. 

The Bkown Family. 

From some very interesting papers furnished me by mem- 
bers of two old Newberry families, the Browns and the Risers, 
I am able to add the following to the Annals of Newberry: 

Among the first settlers of that part of the country which 
is now Newberry County was John Brown. He came from 
Scotland, landing at Philadelphia, where he then had two 
brothers living. While there he became acquainted with Miss 
Sarah Sims, and proposed to her that they should marry and 
together seek their fortunes in the Southern wilderness. She 
agreed to the proposition, as he was a canny Scot and a comely 
young man, and she loved him. After marriage they procured 
two horses, and, with such equipments packed upon them as 
they were able to carry, they bade farewell to their friends 
and set out upon their lonely journey through the woods. 
Whether tired of traveling, or whether they thought they had 
found the garden spot of the world, to this writer is not known. 
Be this as it may, they were pleased to make their home nest 
on the place now known as the Boozer place, in No. 2 Town- 
ship, and owned by Rev. E. P. McClintock. 

They came about the year 1750, and at that time they were 
truly in the woods, their nearest white neighbors being a set- 
tlement on Tyger River, not far from Goshen Hill, and one at 
Ninety Six. 

There were born to them three daughters and one son, the 
son being the youngest. They did not remain alone many 
years, as the country about them rapidly filled uj). They named 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 010 

their son Sims. When he was about the age of fifteen years, 
the Revolutionary war then being in progress, his father took 
him to Snow Hill, between King's Creek and Kennerly's, and 
placed him under the care of an old man named Murphy, as 
a scout in the war. On one occasion, while Murphy was ab- 
-sent, the little fellow made his way into an old Tory's orchard, 
near by, and partook of the peaches to his satisfaction. It is 
very probable, however, that if the orchard had belonged to a 
Whig ifc would have been all the same to Sims, if the peaches 
were good. When Murphy returned, and found that his senti- 
nel had left his post, and had stolen peaches besides, he gave 
him a gentle reminder of his duty as a soldier in the form of 
a slight flogging with his cane. 

At the close of the war he returned home. His father, with 
his daughters, moved to Spartanburg, but Sims remained at the 
old home. The daughters married Collins, Miller, Thompson, 
and lived and died in Spartanburg County. Sims married a 
Miss Baldreck, of Orangeburg County, with whom he had be- 
come acquainted while on a scouting expedition during the war. 
They settled in Newberry about one mile from the old home, 
on the place known afterwards as the Reid place, in No. 2 
Township. This place remained in possession of some member 
of the Brown family until just before the War of Secession, 
when J. C. S. Brown sold it to Thomas J. Price. Sims was 
appointed Magistrate in early life, and held that honorable 
and important position for a great many years. He finally gave 
it up, but was always afterwards known and honored as Col- 
onel or Squire Brown. He grew quite wealthy, and was able 
to settle his children comfortably. He was the father of six 
sons and one daughter: James, who read and practiced medi 
cine, married Miss Anna Glasgow, settled near the old home, 
and died early; John Christopher, Richard Samuel, Sims Ed 
ward, Alexander, Thomas Jeffer.son, and Sarah. 

John C. Brown, the second son, was a tanner by trade. He 
married Miss Jane Caldwell, sister of the late Joseph Cald- 
well. They settled on the old Brown homestead. Here he 
taught Joseph Caldwell the art and mystery of making good 
leather out of raw hides. 

To John C. and Jane Brown were born five children, three 
(laughters^ and two sons, all of whom died in infancy, except 



020 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

one, J. C. S. Brown, who was about six years old at the time 
of his father's death. 

He served as County Commissioner two years, from 1878 to 
1880. To him have been born twelve children, six sons and 
six daughters, seven of whom are living, four sons and three 
daughters. J. C. S. Brown has lived in this sublunary world 
about thirteen years longer than any other Brown of the same 
family. May he live many more. 

Richard Samuel Brown, third son of Sims Brown, the Rev- 
olutionary scout, married a Miss Law of this county, and set- 
tled the Kennerly place, owned in 1892 by his grandson, S. E. 
Kennerly. He had two sons and one daughter: Dr. James 
L., Sims E., and Martha. 

Dr. James married Miss Glenn, daughter of Dr. Glenn, as 
his first wife. She brought him two sons, Richard and Glenn. 
Richard in 1892 Avas engaged in mercantile business at Ander- 
son, S. C. Glenn went to Texas. After the death of his first 
wife Dr. James L. married a Miss Bobo, of Laurens. They 
moved to Mississippi, and* soon afterwards to Florida. 

Sims E., second son of Richard Samuel Brown, died while 
in the Senior Class of the Soiith Carolina College. 

Martha married Dr. Thomas B. Kennerly, and settled on her 
father's place. 

Sims E. Brown, fourth son of Sims Brown of the Revolu- 
tion, carried on the mercantile business near Kennerly's, on the 
old Buncombe road, for a few years, then moved to Newberry 
C. H., and engaged in mercantile business in a house then 
standing where the Crotwell hotel building now is. He died 
early. 

Alexander, the lifth son, was a farmer, but lived only a f(^w 
years after he arrived at man's estate. 

Thomas Jefferson, the sixth son, a farmer, married Miss Anna 
Chapman, of Columbia, S. C, and settled opposite Joseph 
Caldwell's, on the Buncombe road. They had two sons. 
Thomas C. and Jefferson E., and three daughters, Sophia, 
Mary and Sallie. Thomas C. Brown read medicine; during 
the war was Surgeoa in the service of the Confederate State?. 
After the war — when the terrible days of misrule were over — 
he was elected to the Legislature and to the State Senate. 
Just in the prime of life he was stricken with paralysis. He 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. C21 

partially recovered, but after lingering a few years he 
passed away. He was a good man, well known to and esteemed 
by this writer. 

Jefferson E. Brown was quite young during the war between 
the States, but he was a brave and good soldier. For some 
time, I do not know how long, he acted as courier for General 
Longstreet, and, being light, vigorous, active and brave, he made 
a splendid aide. After the war, for a good many years he was 
engaged in mercantile business at Newberry. He, too, died 
young. Sophia died young. Mary and Sallie were living in 
1892. 

Sarah, the only daughter of Sims Brown the Revolutionary 
scout, ran away from home at the age of twelve years and 
married Frank Wilson, of this county. Squire Brown was nat- 
urally very angry at such a proceeding — angry with his daugh- 
ter, but more angry with Wilson for persuading one so young 
to run away with him. After awhile he met Wilson at a bar- 
becue and began to abuse him for stealing his daughter and 
being too poor to support her. Frank replied by saying he 
had as many horses, as many sheep, as many cows and as many 
negroes as the Squire had. "All right," said the Squire; "that 
settles it." 

The Families or Monts and Feagle. 

It is a pleasure, a very great pleasure, to the historian, 
especially if he is an old man like myself, to look back into 
the past and record the deeds and fortunes of worthy men 
and their families. There is no pleasure in life equal to it, 
especially if we know some of the people of whom we write. 
It is like clothing in flesh and blood once more the ghosts of 
the departed and talking with them face to face. 

Ca.spar Monts came from Germany when quite young- 
time when unknown to this writer. He married a Miss Min- 
nick and settled near where John W. Monts now lives (1892). 
He reared a family of four sons and two daughters. Two of 
his sons died early; the other two, John and William, married 
and reared large families. John's first wife was a Miss 
Feagle, who brought him one son, Levi, and three daughters, 
Sallie, Polly and Mary. After her death he married a Miss 



(522 ANNALS OF NEWBEBKY. 

Polly >• aard, and to them were born two sons, Adam and 
G. M. Monts. 

Levi Monts married a Miss Boweis and reared three daugh- 
ters, Mrs. W. C. Sheely. Mrs. John Schumpert and Mrs. J. W. 
Dominick. Adam married a Miss Mayer and has three sons 
and one daughter. G. M. Monts married Miss Kate Feagle 
and has three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Sease and Misses Mary 
and Bessie. 

These three men have all acted their parts nobly. Levi is 
dead, but he is yet remembered and is often mentioned as an 
upright, God-fearing man. Adam Monts and G. M. are both 
what men should be — honest, truthful, upright, and they have, 
of course, weight and influence in the community in which 
they live. 

William Monts married Miss Sheely and reared six sons and 
six daughters. Four of these sons lost their lives in the lato 
Avar; the other two are living — John W. and Jacob. 

John W. resides near the old homestead, a successful planter 
and a courteous and hospitable gentleman. He married a Miss 
Counts and has four children, Mrs. Johnson, of Kansas City, 
Mo.; Mamie, Edward and Clarence. One still at the old 
homestead. Jacob Monts lives in Richland County. Two of 
his daughters married Derricks, one O. P. Fulmer and another 
a Swindler. The record of the Monts family has always been 
good. 

The Feagles — Lawrence Feagle, the first of the name in the 
county, was a German. The time when he came to this coun- 
try is not known to the writer. He was mai^ried twice; first 
to Miss Leah Quattlebaum, and after her death to her sister 
Rachel. He reared a family of five sons and four daughters. 

Of this venerable man's children I can say nothing, except 
of his son George and his descendants. George Feagle married 
a Miss Hoiiseal, a name now almost extinct in that part of the 
county, but which is well and honorably known in the town 
of Newberry and elsewhere. From this union there were 
born three sons, John N., \Yarren and Irvin; and six 
daughters, Kate, Mary, Josephine, Elizabeth, Pauline and 
Leonora. 

George Feagle enlisted and entered the Confederate States 
army in September, 18G1, was captured at the battle of Get- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. ^2H 

tysburg in 1868, and was taken to Point Lookout, in which 
prison he died in 18C4-, at the age of fifty-tive years. 

His record is that of a good soldier. He shrank from no 
duty, but discharged all faithfully, whether as son, husband, 
father or soldier. His wife died in 1878, and lies buried in 
the cemetery at St. Paul's. Of his sons, Warren is in Texas, 
Irvin at Prosperity, and John lives on part of the old home- 
stead. He is a successful planter, and is prominent in the 
Church and State, having filled the office of Jury Commis- 
sioner with credit and honor. He married a Miss Sease, and 
has a large family of children. 

Of the daughters of John Feagle, Kate married G. M,. 
Monts; Josephine, Captain U. B. Whites; Pauline, N. B, 
Wheeler; Lizzie, A. H. Kohn; Mary, Francis Bobb, and Leo- 
nora, J. J. Wheeler. Of these, numerous descendants, children 
and grandchildren, all take a high stand in the community 
and with the people amongst whom they live. 

This record must not be closed without honorable mention 
of that venerable lady. Aunt Susannah Houseal, as she loves 
to be called by the younger people. She is almost a lone sur- 
vivor of the Houseal family in the Dutch Fork, a name which 
was once borne by many there. She lives with her niece, Mrs. 
(t. M. Monts, and in her declining years is at peace with her 
surroundings and with all the world. 

The Boland Family. 

Among the first settlers of the county, not the very first,, 
but of those who came just after the close of the Revolu- 
tionary war, were the Bolands, a strong, vigorous and hardy 
race. 

The sire of this great family, John Boland, came from th? 
Vaterland about the year 1784, with Konkle, Schwartz and 
others. 

John Boland was twenty two when he came to South Caro- 
lina. He married a Widow Counts, and settled not far from 
where Chapin now is. She_ brought to him one son, Abram. 
After her death he married a Miss Feltman, who became the 
happy mother of seven sons and two daughters. The sons were 
John, Henry, Adam, George, William, Dove and Jacob. The 
daughters w^re Barbara and Mary. 



<)24 ANNALS OV NEWBEREY. 

Mr. Boland died in the year 1882, at the age of eighty, and 
ies buried near his old home. He was a thrifty and energetic 
snan, hard working and honest. Seven of his sons, John, Henry, 
Adam, William, George, Dove and Jacob, went West to seek their 
fortune. How they succeeded, I know not; but they did not 
disgrace their ancestry. Abram remained at home, married a 
Miss Sease, and reared a family of nine sons and one daugh- 
ter. The daughter, Katie, married Mr. George Shealy. The 
sons were named William, Frederick, Joe, Adam, Levi, Walter, 
Middleton, Mark and Osra. All these sons married, and all 
reared large families, except Levi, who married a Miss Wheeler 
and died childless. 

William and Walter went West, and are still living (1892). 
Joe, Middleton and Mark, though no longer young, are still 
faithfully working at their favorite occupation near the place 
where they were born. The other sons and the daughter are 
no longer living. Middleton was a good soldier during the 
-war of Secession, and while he was absent from home with 
the army, Sherman, with the Federal forces, passed through 
the country, burning everything in the track through which 
they passed; and when Mr. Boland returned home after the 
surrender he found nothing but a pile of ruins and one or two 
of Sherman's "lone sentinels" to mark the spot where once had 
stood his comfortable home. With unconquerable energy, he 
went to work and repaired what he had lost. He reared a 
family of six sons and five daughters, educated them fairly 
well, and he is to-day living in a comfortable and hospitable 
home, with a conscience void of offense. 

Of his son'-^, we may mention A. N. and David Boland, two 
very genial gentlemen, who reside near the old homestead. 
They are just and upright in their dealings, and men of influ- 
•ence. 

Osra Boland died in early life, leaving two sons, D. C. and 
J. A. Boland. These men began life poor, but have done 
well, and are now, 1892, extensive mill men. 

Joseph Boland still resides where he first settled sixty years 
ago. He reared a family of three sons and seven daughters. 
All follow the example of their ancestors and earn their bread 
l)y the sweat of their face. 

Adam Boland is no more. He has gone to his reward. He 




H. H. Kinard. 
W. W. Houseal. 



John S. Carwile. 

James Bonds. 
Nathan F. Johnson. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBEBRT. 625 

was a good, jovial old gentleman. His widow still lives and 
lingers this side the grave. They had two sons and three 
daughters. The daughter Mrs. George Sheely died a few- 
years ago. Judging from the character of the children she 
left, she was the best of mothers. Mothers always mould the 
character of the children. 

Uncle Mark Boland is still living. 

No member of this family has ever been in public life; no 
one has ever sought or held any office. Such men are the 
bone and sinew of the country; they are the strength of the- 
State, and if the country- and the State had more like them 
the country and the State would be infinitely better off. 

The Kibleb Family. 

As far as I am able to trace the history of this family, it 
starts with two brothers, John Kibler and Michael, who wera 
living in the lower part of Newberry County; that is, below 
where the Court House now is. They were members of that 
great Teutonic family which has done so much to infuse into 
the other peoples of the world a spirit of sturdy independence 
and love of liberty. 

The father of these brothers was one of the first settlers of 
the county. John Kibler, the elder of the brothers, married 
Nancy Farr, by whom he became the father of six sons and 
three daughters. The sons were: John, Jacob, Andrew, Daniel, 
William and Levi; the daughters, Polly, Catherine and Ann. 

Of these, John married the daughter of Col. John Summer; 
Jacob married Miss Mary Stack; Andrew and Daniel died un- 
married. Levi married Miss Folk, and is still living; has one 
son, J. D. A. Kibler, living, who also is married and has chil- 
dren grown up. 

Of the daughters, Polly married Adam Bedenbaugh, and has 
two sons, Jacob and Andrew, and two daughters, one of whom 
married Jacob Singley. Catherine married John Fellers. She 
and her husband are both dead, but. left one son and two 
daughters, all living. The son John C. lives in Edgefield. One 
daughter married Captain William Sligh, who is now (1892) on 
duty in Columbia, S. C. The other daughter married Jerry 
Wyse, of Edgefield. She is left a widow. Ann married Ivy 
Busby, and is dead, leaving no children. 

2 S 



026 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Michael Kibler, the other of the original two brothers, mar- 
ried, and had a famil.y of live sons and live daughters. I am 
not informed as to the name of the lady he married. He and 
his wife both lived to a good old age, though she lived in wid- 
owhood about twenty years after his death. He died about 
1881, and she in 1851. Their sons were Michael, John, Davitl, 
Adam and^ Jacob. The names of the daughters I am not able 
to give. This Michael is said, and it is generally believed in 
that section of the county, to have had and used the first cot- 
ton gin ever employed in the County of Newberry. 

Of the sons, Michael married Miss Koon; John, a Miss Eich- 
elberger; David married three times, first, a Miss Fellers, next 
a Miss Suber, his last Avife being Miss Hair. David was the 
father of nine children, five sons and four daughters, all of 
whom are dead except three, Drayton (D. W. T.), and Cathe- 
rine and Amos. The names of the other sons were Godfrey, 
Middleton and Calvin. Adam married three times. Misses 
Fellers, MafPet and Kinard. His last wife is still living, a pleas- 
ant, ffenial, comely, good-looking lady. Jacob married Miss 
Frances Chapman, daughter of Samuel Chapman, Esq. She 
brought him three sons and three daughters, all of whom are 
living in the town of Newberry — William, Arthu'\ John, Eliz- 
abeth, Alice and Sarah — none yet married. 

Of the daughters of the original Michael Kibler, tlic names 
of whom I am iinable to g-ive, one married Jacob Sligfh, brother 
of that good old man, Philip Sligli. These left one daughter, 
who married Lang. Rutl'. She is still living, but a widow. One 
married George Dickert; two became the wives of David Koon. 
There were two sons of David Koon, both of whom died in the 
service of the Confederate States. One daughter married John 
Barre. They left one daughter, who married and died, leav- 
ing one child. 

The Sheai,ys. 
John Windell Shealy was the first of the name that came 
from the old country to this. A man named John Adam Ep- 
ting brought over a small colony from the city of Heidelberg, 
consisting of Shealy, Leitzey, Setzler, Cromer and Myer, in the 
year 1703. They were all liutherans, and were among the 
founders of the present St. John's Church. John Windell 



ANNALS OF NEWBERET. 027 

Shealy mar iod Miss Epting, daughter of Mr. Epting, the pion- 
(H^r of the colony, in the year 1770, and settled near where 
\\'. C. Sb^aly now lives. 

The fruits oC lliis union were twelve s-ons and one daughter. 
I can give the names of only eight of these sons; the others 
I have never learned: AVindell, William, Adam, John, Henry, 
INIatthias, David and Andrew. Of these, William, Windell and 
David married Wertsos; Andrew married a Miss Sawyer, and 
the daughter a Mr. QuattleViaum. Whom the other sons mar- 
ried, if they ever married, I am unable to say. 

Mr. Shealy, the pioneer, died in the year 1814, and was 
buried near the i)l<''ce where he first settled. He lived long 
enough to see all his sons fully grown ; and they were all strong, 
robust men. They stood six feet in height, and the least and 
lightest one of them weighed 175 pounds. In those days, when 
men defended themselves, on all ordinary occasions, with the 
weapons given theni by natiire, these twelve brothers, if they 
felt their rights assailed, could have given any other twelve, or 
more, a lively tussle. 

Mr. Shealy owned all the lands in and around Little Moun- 
tain at that time, and settled not a few of his children on them; 
hence this is the Mecca of the Shealys. Within a few hundred 
yards of the residence of Mr. W. C. Shealy is the spring of 
fresh, cool, clear, bubbling water used by the original John 
AVindell Shealy, artd it still has in it a portion of the gum placed 
there by Mr. Shealy over one hundred and twenty years ago. 
The men of this family, like others v/ho are the salt of the 
earth, are farmers, cultivators of the soil, and attend to their 
own business and let others' alone. Some of them are preach- 
ers of the gospel, ministers in the Lutheran Church- they are 
all Lutherans — and one is a teacher of youth, whom I hava 
heard mentioned as a man of large brain and heart, but of 
small body, like my friend Squire Padgett of Edgefield. 

This part of Newberry before, and even after, the war was 
regarded as the poor portion of the county; but it has been 
made to bloom as the rose, and is now regarded as the most 
independent portion. This result has been brought about by 
hard and strenuous labor. There are Shealys who started after 
the war v/ithont means, who are now independent. Could the 
original Shealy rise from the grave, and from the tops of the 



628 ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 

highest hills look over the surrounding country, no doubt he 
would be filled with wonder at the great and beneficent change* 
The forests have given place to well cultivated fields; schools 
^flourish; churches are established, and the Word is dispensetl 
to waiting and willing souls; the country is prosperous and 
happy; and much of this good is due, under divine Providence, 
to the Shealys and to the example set by them. 

Thomas Ferguson Greneker. 

This past veteran journalist was bom in the city of Charles- 
ton, S. C, March 2nd, 1827, and died at his home in New- 
berry on the 3d of December, 3889, in the sixty-third year of 
his age. He was the eldest son of Captain Thos. Greneker. 
of the Merchant Marine service. Having the misfortune to 
lose his parents while quite a boy, with the further loss of a 
competency that would have given him a classical education, 
he went into a printing ofiice, after receiving a good English 
education, as the best means at his command of acquiring 
that knowledge which he sought and obtained. His bright 
and retentive mind soon enabled him to master the details of 
the business and he rapidly rose in the confidence of his 
employers and the esteem of the craft.. 

Early in the fifties Mr. Greneker removed to Columbia and 
took charge of Dr. Kobert W. Gibbes' large book and job 
printing and newspaper ofiice, where he was foreman of the 
State printing. Some time afterwards he and Messrs. Giles 
«fc LaMotte published the third daily newspaper ever printed 
in Columbia. The name of the paper was The Carolina 
l^'ines. Disposing of his interest, he came to Newberry abou.t 
the year 1858, and was associated with Thos. P. Slider in 
the Rising Sun, which newspaper he published until the Con- 
federate war, when he entered the service as a private in 
Colonel Edward's Thirteenth Kegiment of South Carolina Vol- 
unteers. Declining health cau.sed him to return home. He was 
an invalid to the day of his death, and notwithstanding the 
intense bodily pain which he almost daily endured, ha exhib- 
ited great energy and industry in the successful management 
of the Newberry Herald (the successor of the Bising Sun), 
wlrlch he conducted with his brother, R. H. Greneker. In 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKV. 629 

1884 the Herald was consolidated with the Newberry News. 
For a number of years this venerable editor was the trusted 
treasurer of the South Carolina State Press Association, until 
the wretched condition of his health forced him to resign the 
position and also, in 1885, to retire from journalism. He 
wrote with a fluent and facile pen. 

Mr. Greneker was twice married; first, in Columbia, on the 
30th of December, 1852, to Miss Mary Caroline Fritz. By 
this marriage three children were born, one son and two 
daughters. Only one of these, Lula, wife of A. C. Jones, 
is now living. His second marriage occurred on the 9th of 
August, 1864, to Miss Corrie G. Sligh, of Newberry County, 
who survives him. Six children were born of this marriage, 
four SODS and two daughters, three of whom are now living: 
Sarah, wife of C. C. Davis, Eugene and Claude. 

Mr. Greneker was the founder of the Herald, and for nearly 
forty years was identified with the journalism of this county. 
The best years of his life and his energy and intellect were 
spent here in our midst in an effort to advance the true in- 
terests of his adopted town and county and of his native 
State. He was one of the organizers of the State Press Asso- 
ciation and was a consistent member of the Methodist Church 
— showing his devotion to Church and State — and died in the 
assurance of a blissful immortality beyond the grave. He had 
a large circle of acquaintances and many friends in the county 
and State. 

Mr. Greneker was a genial, kind-hearted and hospitable 
man, and though a great sufferer from ill-health, had a quiet 
vein of humor which made him a very agreeable host and com 
panion. Temperate and industrious, he acquired a comforable 
living for his family and kept a bountiful table in waiting for 
his friends, who always received a warm welcome to his happy 
home. He fell peacefully upon his last sleep. 



Henry H. Blease. 

Henry H. Blease was born at Edgefield C. H., S. C, on the 
11th day of May, 1832, and died at his home at Newberry on 
the 15th day of April, 1892. 

His was a strong and vigorous character, the elements of 



C)8() ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

which were manifested ia early life. He had great powers of 
discrimination in matters involving much investigation, and I 
have no doubt that he would have made an able lawyer and an 
ornament to the Bar had his mind been trained in that direc- 
tion. Other walks in life were his. 

In 184-1) he left Edgefield and moved to Newberry, and after 
wards tilled, both in time of peace and of war, many places 
of trust with fidelity. After the war he engaged in farming, 
but in a short time he moved to the town of Newberry and 
engaged in business as the proprietor of a hotel and livery 
stables. For several years he filled the office of Trial Justice 
at Newberry. 

As a friend he was firm and loyal; as a thinker he was clear, 
and his opinions, once formed, were decided. He was hospit- 
able, and loved social intercourse. To the poor and destitute 
he was always ready and willing to extend a helping hand, 
and many acts of kindness were done by him which are known 
only by the recipients and God. 

He was a member of the Methodist Church, loving that 
Chu.reh with a devoted love, as all good Methodists do; but he 
was no bigot, and could see the spirit of the Master shining 
through the good people of other churches besides his own. 

During several years of the latter part of his life he was a 
great sufferer; but no one ever heard him lament or complain 
of his condition. He was patient all through to the last, and 
when the summons came he had no fears, and only expressed 
regret that he would be separated from those so near and dear 
to him. 

Mr. Blease was twice married hiiJ left several children. 
Two sons, Harry and Cole L. Blease, are practising lawyers 
at Newberry. Harry has served as Trial Justice, and Cole L. 
was elected to the Legislature (House of Representatives) in 
1890, and has sei-ved one term. There are also several 
daughters and a younger son. One daughter, Ella, married 
C. L. Havird; one, Corrie, J. E. St. Amand, of Charleston; 
one, Leila, T. G. Williams, Newberry. Three children by the 
last wife; two sons, one daughter. 

Rev. W1LLI.A.M Harmon 
Was one of the earliest Methodist local preachers near Salu- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



031 



da Old Town, where he lived so many year.-^. He was twice 
married. His first wife was Rosannah Summers, by whom he 
had ten children. His second wife was Honor a Bridget Frean. 
daughter of Rev. Thomas Frean. This union was blessed with 
two children, Thomas F. Harmon, now living at Newberry, and 
Sarah Jane, who married Middleton T. Kinard. 

The house in which Mr. Harmon lived so many years, and in 
which he died, is still standing. He was a successful farmer 
and good and useful citizens. He died in December, 184:8, at 
the age of sixty-four years, and was buried at Moon's Meet- 
ing House, the church which he loved and supported. There 
is no church there now, no house of worship; nothing to mark 
the spot save the silent tombs around. 

Middleton T. Kinard 

Lived the latter part of his life on Saluda River and owned 
what is still known (1892) as Kinard's Ferry. Mr. Kinard, 
though a brother of General H. H. and John P. Kinard, who 
for so many years were prominent public men, never sought 
any office, but preferred to remain in private life and be a suc- 
cessful farmer and a true and honest man. 

He married, late in life, Sallie, daughter of Rev. William 
and Bridget Harmon. He died in the year 1807, in his fifty- 
fourth year, leaving two children. His wife died in 1805. No 
man in his neighborhood was more beloved by friends and 
neighbors than Middleton T. Kinard. 

The Berly Family. 
Gaspar Berly came from Germany and lirst settled ;n 
Charleston; afterwards came to Newberry, some fifteen or 
twenty years before the Revolution, and settled near Pomaria, 
where he died and was buried. His first wife came with him 
from Germany. At her death he married Miss Easter, from 
Fairfield. By his first wife there were four sons: Syke, Gas- 
par, Harmon and Martin. By his last marriage there were 
two sons, John and Frederick, and three daughters, Elizabeth, 
Mary and Margaret. All the sons moved from Newberry 
except John. He married Miss Barbara Werts. The children 
of John Berly were: Rev. William, Adam, Joel A., Elizabeth, 
Sarah and Jane. Elizabeth married Wm. Riser, Sarah mar- 
ried A. M. Bowers, and Jane married Matthias Barre. 



■632 annals of newbeert. 

Captain John Martin Kinaud, 

Of the Twentieth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, was 
a son of General H. H. Kinard. He was born in Newberry 
County, July o, 1833. After some preparation at the Winns- 
boro High School, he attended the South Carolina College, 
leaving in his Junior year. He was twice married. His first 
wife, Mary A. Ruff, daughter of Dr. P. B. Ruff, died early in 
life, leaving a daughter who is now the wife of Elbert H. 
Aull. His second wife, Lavinia E. Rook, who still lives, bore 
him two sons, John M., who is now Clerk of Court for New- 
berry County, and James P., who is a student at Johns 
Hopkins University, Ealtimore. 

Captain Kinard enlisted as First Lieutenant of Company F, 
and became Captain on the resignation of his uncle, John P. 
Kinard. The regiment was encamped around Charleston in 
18C2-3. They defended Morris Island during the bombard- 
ment. The regiment was ordered to Virginia in 1804. During 
a fight in the Shenandoah Valley, near Strasburg, and not 
far from Winchester, Va., Captain Kinard, while acting Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, was shot through the heart, October 13, 1864. 
After the fight his faithful servant. Ham, secured the body 
and brought it home. 

At the breaking out of the war Captain Kinard was engaged 
in farming at his home, Kinard's, in the upper part of the 
county. In his country's call to arms he heard the voice of 
duty, and resigning the peaceful pleasures of home he poured 
out his heart's blood in defence of the cause he loved so well. 
His handsome features and gentle spirit endeared him greatly 
to his fellow -soldiers. His personal popularity is shown by 
the loving manner in which the surviving members of his 
company speak of him. 

"And how can man die better 

Than facing fearful odds 
For the aehes of his fathers 
And the templas of his gods." 



The Gaey Family. 
Thomas Gary and West Gary settled in Newberry County 
about from 17G0 to 1770. Thomas Garv was the father of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 033 

Captain Jesse Gary, who lived near the place now known as 
Gary's Lane, in the County of Newberry. He was a success- 
ful planter and grew rich. He married Miss Mary Reeder, a 
most excellent lady, one who was earnest in all good words 
and works, and who accomplished great good in the community 
in which she lived. 

Thomas Gary was the father of six children: Thomas R. 
Gary; Elizabeth, who married Stephen Blackburn, and Dr. 
"William Rook; Martin C. Gary; Rebecca, who married Dr. John 
r. Gary; Hillary Gary, and Laviaia, who married James 
Young. 

Dr. Thomas R. Gary, the son of Thomas, moved to Abbe- 
ville, and there married Miss Mary Ann Porter. They reared 
a large family of children. Among them may be mentioned 
the late Dr. F. F. Gary, who married Miss Mary C. Blackburn. 
Dr. F. F. Gary was the father of Eugene B. Gary; Frank B. 
Gary, of Abbeville; Ernest Gary, of Edgefield, and Mr.>=. James 
M. Eason, of Charleston. 

West Gary was the father of Dr. John K. Gary, a practic- 
ing physician of Newberry for many years, much loved for his 
kindness of heart. 



The Crosson Family. 

The first Crosson who ever came to this country was Alex- 
ander, who landed at Philadelphia. His emigration was not 
voluntary, having been banished from his home and country 
as a punishment for killing his lord's game without license. 
He settled in the Shenandoah Valley at Woodstock, Virginia. 
Afterwards his father came to this country and landed at 
Charlestown. About three years after his arrival he heard 
where his son was and went to Virginia and brought him to 
South Carolina. Alexander and John were the only children 
the old man had. Alex married a Steel or a Smith and 
became the father of seven children, viz: Tom, Huey, Robert, 
Jane, Ann, Ellen and Mary. 

Tom, the eldest son, married Jane Neily in 1800. His 
children Avere James M., Margaret and Jane. 

James Crosson's children were J. T. P., H. S. N., David, 
Allen, Lizzie and Jane. 



634 annals of newberky. 

The Dominick Family. 
Henry Domiuick came to Newberry District from Germany 
about 17G0, when quite a small boy. He first married 
Margaret Fellows (now spelled Fellers), who brought him 
oae son, Henry. His second wife was also a Miss Fellows, a 
sister of the first, to whom were born George and Andrew. 
Henry Dominick, Jr., married Mary Paysinger, a sister, if 
I mistake not, of John Paysinger, elsewhere mentioned; to 
whom were born John. Frederick, George Wesley, Jacob, An- 
drew, Catherine, Elizabeth, Polly Stockman, Nancy Kinard, 
Tena Kinard and Eliza Bowers. John Dominick married 
Bettie Rikard, who brought him Henry, George, Crayton, 
Nancy Taylor, Mary Mills and Eva Taylor. Frederick Dom- 
inick married Mary Long, who brought him Jacob, Preston, 
Sidney, Harriet Harmon, Laura Mayer and Alice Johnson. 
George Dominick married Peggy Nelson, an Irish lady, who 
brought him John, George, Mary Hunter, Nancy, Fannie 
Bedenbaugh and Carrie Fellers, Wesley Dominick married 
Jane Lake, who brought him Fannie Dominick and Trannie 
Fellers. Andrew P. Dominick married Lucinda Shealy, who 
brought him Ambrose, Sallie Cook, Cora, Bessie and May. 
George Dominick married Maiy Mack, who brought him 
Aaron, George, Henry, Lindsey, Mary Warner and Margaret 
Bowers. Aaron Dominick married, first, Eva Shealy, by whom 
he became the father of George, Michael, Luther, Lawson, Mary 
Derrick and Alice Stockman. His second wife was Catherine 
Cook, who brought him Wesley and Lizzie Monts. George 
Dominick married Nancy Hunter, who brought him Samuel, 
Chesley, Lindsey, John Abner and Lizzie Cook. With this 
happy marriage the old ''Dead Line," the line of separation 
between the Irish and Dutch, became completely obliterated 
and destroyed. Henry Dominick married Rhoda Banks; 
Lindsey Dominick married Rosa Cook; George Dominick 
married Josephine Trotter; Michael Dominick married Lizzie 
Edwards; Luther Dominick married a Miss Shealy; Wesley 
Dominick married Mary Dominick; Samuel Dominick married 
Nancy Stockman; Chesley Dominick married Fannie Dominick; 
Lindsey Dominick married Carrie Hunter; John Dominick 
married Thompsie Dawkins; Abner Dominick married Cornelia 
Bedenbaugh; Simpson Dominick married Frances Moore; 
Jacob A. Dominick married Eunice Sease. 



annals of newberry. 035 

The Moseley Family. 
Absalom Moseley, of English descent, married Mary Rich- 
-ardson, of Irish descent, to whom were born William, Mason, 
Wiley, Daniel, Sallie, Winnie and Nancy Burckhalter. Wil- 
liam, Mason and Wiley Moseley moved to Arkansas in early 
life. Daniel Moseley married Caroline Bridges, daughter of 
William Bridges, to whom were born Hanson C, William A. 
and Nancy C, who married George D. Brown. H. C. Moseley 
married Carrie Brown, July 30th, 1872. Williatn A. Moseley 
married Melissa Schumpert, October 22, 1878. 

The Bo>vers Family. 
Stephen Bowers married a Miss Bates, to whom were born 
David, Samuel, Andrew, Jacob, Levi, John, Sallie Wheeler, 
Elizabeth Fellers, Nancy Maffett and Vina Young. David 
Bowers married Eva Kinard, to whom were born Michael, 
Levi, Vina Shealy, Katie Shealy, Betsie Frick, Mary Ann 
Monts and Louisa Swygert. Michael Bowers married Eliza 
Dominick, to whom were born one son, George, and three 
daughters. Levi Bowers became a lawyer under Major L. J. 
Jones' tutorage. He died in the bloom of youth. John 
Bowers moved to Georgia. Samuel Bowers married, first, a' 
Miss Cook', to whom were born Rebecca Simpson, Elizabeth 
Werts and Jacob Bowers. His second wife was Margaret 
Moore, who brought him Levi S., Fletcher M., Emma Nates 
^nd Mary Barre. Levi S. Bowers married Mollie Gallman. 
J:5amuel Bowers was a magistrate before and during the war 
between the States; and a most excellent man who held 
the scales of justice with an even, firm and steady hand. 

Andrew Bowers married , to whom were born 

George, Jacob, Michael, Levi, John and Nancy Young. 
John Bowers married Margaret Dominick, who brought him 
•six sons and three daughters, viz: Patrick, George, Lindsey, 
Luther, Pierce, Nathan, Sarah Stockman, Elizabeth Bowers and 
Mary Stockman. Patrick Bowers, son of John, married, first, 
Salome Stockman, by whom he had one daughter, Alice Mitch- 
ell. George married Elizabeth Bowers; Lindsey, Mary Bowers; 
Luther, Golvy Morris; Pierce, Amanda Taylor; Nathan, Bessie 
Morris; with what further result is unknown to this historian. 
Of George Bowers, the son of Andrew, I know nothings 



^36 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 

Jacob S. married Sarah, daughter of Samuel Chapman, Esq., 
who brought him several sons and daughters. One, J. William? 
engaged in business in Abbeville County; one, Kev. A. J, 
Bowers, pastor of Lutheran Church in Savannah, Ga. ; one 
daughter, Mary, wife of R. H. Wright, merchant and banker, 
in the town of Newberry; one, Margaret, wife of McDuffie 
Sligh, farmer in Newberry County; one, Stevie, wife of George 
Wright, nephew of Robert H., engaged in business in Texas; 
one, Elizabeth, who mariied Rev. H. S. Wingard, but now 
dead, leaving several children; one, Janie, is unmarried and 
makes her home with Rev. Wingard, who has married again 
since the death of his first wife. There was a daughter, 
Ella, who married a Mr. Mackerell. She is no longer living, 
but left one or two children. A. Michael Bowers is living 
and is in business in the town of Newberry. He married 
Miss Barre, but has long been awidower. He has two chil- 
dren, son and daughter, bothg rown. Of Levi, the other son 
of Andrew Bowers, and the daughter, Nancy Young, I can add 
nothing here. 

The Bedenbaugh Family. 
Adam Bedenbaugh was born near Pomaria, S. C, of German 
parentage, and entered the Revolutionary war at sixteen years 
of age. He married a Miss Wertz and settled on Broad 
River. Afterwards he moved to the Stoney Hills, settling on 
Little Creek. To him were born nine sons and one daughter, 
Elizabeth. The sons were named Henry, Adam, Michael, 
Jacob, Abram, Christian, David, John and William. He lived 
to be quite aged, bis wife living several years after his death. 
William is still living, his home being in Georgia. Henry 
.settled, after marriage to Elizabeth Brighe, on Big Creek. 
To him were born four sons, Daniel, John Adam, Simeon and 
William Pinckney. There were five daughters, Elizabeth, Eve, 
Melinda, Rachel and Rosanna. He lived to be seventy six 
years old, his wife living to the age of eighty-one. Daniel 
died at thirty-one years of age, leaving a wife and two chil- 
dren, who moved to Alabama. John Adam, the next son, now 
seventy-six years old and living on the old homestead, has a 
son, Rev. Z. W. Bedenbaugh, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary E. 
Dennis, both living near him. Two daughters died in LS*^)'). 



ANNALS OF XF.WBERKV. Oo / 

Simeon, now seventy-four years old, is also living near the old 
homestead. To him were born five sons, WHrren, Jacob, Haw- 
kins, John and Pettus, and three daughters, Amelia, Nancy 
and Ella. Piockney died at the age of fifty-eight, without 
children. Elizabeth died without marrying. Eve was iv.arried 
to Frederick Boozer, and to whom were born two children, 
a son and a daughter. INIelinda was married to Jacob 
Hawkins, and to them were born four sons and four 
daughters. Rachel married Mathias Wicker, and to them 
were born three sons, all now living. Rosanna was married to 
Allen Nichols. To them were born five sons and four daugh- 
ters. Adam Bedenbaugh, Jr., settled on Big Creek, near his 
brother Henry, but afterwards he moved to the Dutch Fork. 
He married Polly Kibler, and to them were born five sons, 
Levi, John, Andrew, Jacob and William, and two daughters, 
Epsie and Nancy. Michael also settled in the Stoney Hills. 
He had two sons and four daughters. Jacob settled nfear his 
father, and to him were born five sons and four daughters. 
Abram married Sheba Nelson, but left no children. Christian 
had one son, who moved to Indiana after his father's death. 
David died early in life. John also settled near his father, 
marrying Rhoda King. To them were born five sons and 
four daughters. William, the only surviving son, now living 
in Georgia at the advanced age of eighty-five years, had four 
sons and four daughters. 

The Young Family. 
Abram Young, Sr., came to America from County Down, 
Ireland, and died here in 1802. He had four sons and seven 
daughters, viz.: Joseph, Thompson, James and Abram; the 
daughters' names after marriage being: Nancy Brown, Betsey 
Fair, Mary Thompson, Hannah Carmichael, Jennie Gregg. 
Abby, or Abia Carmichael, and Esther Boyd, afterward Esther 
Carr. Abram Y'oung, Jr., married a Carmichael, by whom he 
had six sons, Thompson, Joseph, Abram, James, Nathan and 
Arthur. Thompson Y'oung, now living in his eighty third year, 
married Mary Hunter. To them were born one son, Nathan H., 
and two daughters, Amanda, no v living \^ilh lior father, and 
]\Iary Ann, the wife of James H. Dennis. Nathan was a sol- 



088 ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 

dier during the late war, m the Third South Carolina Regi- 
ment. He married Nancy Dennis, by whom he had two sons,. 
Thompson and Augustus. All the Youngs, except Thompson 
and his family, removed to Georgia. Nathan and Arthur died, 
and lie buried in Prosperity Cemetery. Thompson Young,. 
ne})hew of Thompson Young just mentioned, has returned 
ti) Newberry, and makes his home at the old Ramage place> 
having married Mary, the daughter of J. J. Paysinger. He 
returned to Newberry in 1890. 



The Wheeler Family. 
George AVheeler was born in South Carolina in IToU. At 
ihe age of sixteen he entered the American army and fought 
through the Revolutionary struggle. He married Barbara 
Addy, by whom were born four sons, John, Simeon, George 
and Jacob, and one daughter, Polly. John and George died 
without families. Simeon "Wheeler married twice; first he 
married Elizabeth Mayer (then pronounced Moyer), by whom 
were born two daughters, Mary, who married Levi lioland, 
and Elizabeth, who "married Frederick Fulmer. His second 
wife was Elizabeth Shealy, to whom were born six sons. 
Michael, D. Henry, Simeon, Jacob, Levi and George. 
D. Henry AVheeler is the only one of the fix that ever 
married. He married Ellen Lorick, to whom were born four 
sons, Samuel, Jacob, Frank and Martin. D. Henry Wheeler 
owns large quantities of real estate in the county and 
the town of Newberry, and is a great friend to the poor. 
Jacob W^heeler, son of George, married Sallie Bowers, nine 
sons being born to them, namely, Levi, George, John, Luther. 
J. Middleton, Daniel B., Andrew H., Nathan B. and James. Four 
daughters also were born, three of whom died young, the fourth- 
Emeline, marrying Emanuel Werts, of Edgefield County. 
Levi Wheeler married Frances Pike, to whom Jacob I., Thomp- 
son L. and Alice were born. Levi died in 1861. George is 
living unmarried. John married Harriet Kempson, and their 
children were: Marion, Luther, Emma, Alice, John and James 
(twins). Luther married Anna Kempson, and she brought hiui: 
one son and one daughter, George and Lizzie. J. Middleton 
married Nancy Singley, and Sidney, Mary, Pettus, Walton and 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 681) 

Bennie were their children. Daaiel B. married Adella Williams, 
and their offspring are Mallie, Bessie and Sallie. Andrew H. 
married Elenora Counts, and their children were Nina, Leila 
and Clarence. Nathan B. married Pauline Feagle, their children 
being Eugene, Carrie, Albert, Edna, Essie, Ernest, Ellen and 
BartoAV. James married Mary Dickert, having one son, James. 
James, Sr., died in 1871. 



The Hunter Family. 
Nathan Hunter, a native of County Antrim, Ireland, came to 
America about 1780. Having married Mary Young in Ireland, 
they settled in Newberry County, and here were born five sons 
and three daughters, namely, William, Joseph, George, Nathan, 
James, Elizabeth Drennan, Jane Thompson and Mary Devlin. 
William Hunter married Sarah Abernathy, and their children 
were: Nathan, John, George, Joseph, Rhoda Connor and Mary 
Teagne. Joseph Hunter married Elizabeth Abernathy, their 
offspring being: James, Nathan, John, William, Joseph, Sam- 
uel, Mar}^ Spence, Jane Hawkins, Sarah Lester, Nancy Domi- 
nick, Rhoda and Elizabeth. George Hunter married Mary 
Wellington, and their sons and daughters were: Nathan A., John, 
William, Elizabeth Leavell and Jane Carmichael. Nathan 
Hunter married Amanda Mills, granddaughter of Rev. Giles 
Chapman, and moved to Alabama. James Hunter married, 
first, Elizabeth Davis, who bore him three sons, Lafayette, 
James and Calhoun. His second wife was Margaret Bruale, 
and Mary Sims and Elizabeth McMakin were their children. 
This family moved to Union, S. C. Nathan Hunter married 
Frances Reeder, whose children were William and Samnel. 
jJohn Hunter married i\.bba Johnson, and moved to Georgia. 
George Hunter married Mariah W^ilson, and became the father 
of Sarah Davis. His second wife was Elizabeth Starks. She 
brought him Pennington and two other sons, whose names 
cannot now be obtained. Joseph Plunter married Ruth Kellar, 
who became the mother of Isaac, James, William, Hyde, Ra- 
chael Bonds, Sarah Drennan, Sue Eddy and Mary Johnson. 
James Hunter murried Sarah Crisel, and moved to Illinois. 
Nathan A. Hunter married Louisa Aull, and their children 
are: Joseph H., Alice L, wife of Dr. Peter Robertson; 



-640 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Julia B., wife of Prof. C. W. Welch; Charles T. and Cla- 
rence E. ^Jphn, William and Joseph never married. Samuel 
Hunter married Elizabeth Davis, who brought him Chesley D., 
Joseph, Albert, Bessie, wife of Geo. G. Lane; Rhoda, Belle and 
Nancy. Nathan Hnnter married Susannah Cureton, by whom 
he became the father of John, James, Thomas, William, Eliza 
Lake, Mary Young and Susannah Dennis, iohn Hunter mar- 
ried Rosannah Young, and moved to Florida. James Hunter 
married Mary Carmichael, and their issue were: John, Robert 
T. C, Nathan and Eliza Whitman. Thomas Hunter married 
Juriah Fellers, their children being Jefferson, George, Car- 
rie Dominick, Alma Trotter, Adella and Mary. Jose})h H. 
Hunter married Elizabeth Fant. These have Nathan and 
Frank. John L. Hunter married Mary Dominick. To these 
have been born Dr. George Y., Elbe Fellers, Fannie and Mag- 
gie. Robert T. C. Hunter married Rebecca Boozer, and he 
became the father of Thaddeus, James, Joseph, Lafayette, 
Robert, Allen and Carrie. Robert T. C. Hunter is a prominent 
man in his section, always taking an active part in public affairs, 
such as conventions, etc. He served one term in the lower 
house of the Legislature, after which he declined to be a can- 
didate again. Nathan Hunter married Abbie Boozer, whose 
sons are Thompson and Rufus. 



The Jacob Boozer Family. 

Jacob Boozer was of Swiss or Swedish descent. He mar- 
ried Elizabeth Senn about the year 1770, and settled on Twen- 
ty-one Mile Creek, at Cherokee Ford, near Fort Granby, and 
.served in the Revolutionary war. By this marriage came 
Henry, David, William and Jacob. Jacob Boozer married and 
lived in Lexington. Henry and William, with their families, 
removed to Alabama. David Boozer married Catherine Rawl, 
and became the father of Wesley, David L. (dentist in Colum- 
bia), and Jacob H., who married, first, Elizabeth Enlow, a 
niece of Captain Matthew Hall, having by her two sons, Mat- 
thew and Luther, and whose second wife was Haphock Lind- 
sey, who brought him also two sons, Lindsey and Jacob. 
D. Luther Boozer married Emma JVIooro, nnd has a family who, 
with him, are now living near Ninety-Six, in Abbeville County. 



annals of newberky. g4l 

The p. W. Counts Family, 
(this name was obiginally kountze.) 
Henry Counts, Sr., the grandfather of P. W. Counts, Esq., 
was born and married in South Carolina, near Poinaria, his 
father being one of the earliest settlers of the county. He 
married a Miss Fellows (now spelled Fellers). They had four 
sons, Henry, Jr., Jacob, Frederick and John. Henry Counts, 
Jr., married Sallie Hair, the issue of this union being two 
sons, one of whom died in infancy, and P. W. Counts, the 
subject of this sketch, who is now eighty years old, having 
been born in 181*2. He married Martha Hurmjti, and to 
them were born four sons and two daughter-, all of whom are 
living. One son, J. Henry Counts, lives in Lexington, and has 
served two terms in the Legislature from that county. J. Cal 
houu Counts is a Methodist minister. Walter L and George 
Counts live near the old homesteail. P. W. Counts lives on 
the identical place where he was born. It has l.ein in the 
family for one hundred and twenty-seven ycju-:. He filled 
acceptably the office of magistrate, or "Escjuire," for a number 
of years before and during the civil war, and is the only 
magistrate on record in the county as having ])ronouncod the 
death sentence upon a murderer; and at the ai)pointed time 
the man was hanged. He was a slave belonging to a Bobo, 
hud the murdered man was white and an overseer. 

The Wise Family. 
John Wise moved from Lexington District to Newberry Dis- 
trict, on Saluda River, al)0ut the year 1800. Ho married Bet- 
sey Kelly, by whom he had six sons and six daughters, viz. : 
George, David, Jesse, Jeremiah, Joel, Levi, Elizabeth, who 
married, first, John Derrick, then Jacob Caughman; Christiana, 
who married Frederick Kinard; Margaret, who married Michael 
Shealy; Jemima, who married George Addy; Nancy, who mar- 
ried John McNeary, and Sallie, who married Jacob Singley. 
George Wise married, first, Mary Iloberts, the issue of this 
union being Solomon, Charlotte, who died young; Betsy, who 
married Michael Shealy; Margaret, who married Henry Jen- 
nings; John A. and Patrick E. His first wife having died, he 
married Mary Shealy, and their children were Walter, Jacob. 
Pickens, James and Lemuel. The last four died without 
2 T 



642 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

families. P. E. Wise married Christiana Aull, by whom he 
had five sons, George, Lawson, Allen, James and Bachman, 
and two daughters, Elizabeth, who married John B. Lathan, 
and Sallie, who married F. N. Calmes, all of whom are living. 
John A, Wise married Martha Schumpert, the fruits of their 
union being James, Pickens, Mary Shealy, Savannah Epting 
and Delia. These are all living. John A. Wise was killed 
at the second battle of Manassas, in 1802. Walter M. Wise 
married Martha Roberts, by whom were born five sons, John, 
Lemuel, James, William and Eddie, and one daughter, who 
died young. 

The Lester Family. 

Charles Lester, a native of Virginia, of English descent, 
came to Xewberry District, S. C, about the year 17(30, and 
served through the Revolutionary war in the American army. 
He married a Miss Musgrove, the happy mother of Allen, 
Smith, Alfred, Mibray Gilbert, Susie Havird and Mariah Boozer. 
Smith and Alfred moved to Alabama. Allen married Martha 
Dennis, who filled his house with joy and was the mother of 
W^illiam, James, Charlie, Alfred, George, Martha Connelly, 
Prudence Rodgers, Phoebe Kirkland and Jane Rikard. Wil- 
liam Lester (Colonel) married, first, Sallie Hunter, to whom 
Avere born Rhoda Boozer, Mary Havird and Hattie Whitman. 
His second wife was HannaJi Young, who became the mother 
of Young, Marcus, Thompson, Marcellus, Abbie Dominick and 
Estelle. At the beginning of the Civil war Col. W^m. Lester 
raised a company of soldiers, over which he was elected 
Captain. His company was attached to the Thirteenth Regi- 
ment, South Carolina Volunteers, Infantry, of which regiment 
he was promoted to Colonel. He served through the war with 
distinction and marked bravery. In the troublesome days of 
1870, with a company of old soldiers, he went to Columbia 
and tendered his services to Governor Hampton, where he 
remained as long as it was necessary. James Lester married, 
first, Elizabeth Boozer, to whom were born Allen, George 
and Amanda Nichols. His second wife was Polly Boozer, to 
whom were born Newton, Elizabeth Boozer and Fannie Boozer. 
George Lester married Harriet Rikard, who brought him Willie, 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 643 

Ella Merchant, Lillie and Mary. George Lester lost a leg in 
the Civil war. Young Lester (a mute from sickness) married 
a mute at Cedar Springs. This couple became the parents of 
two children, who are being taught to speak. The mute, Mrs. 
Lester, has passed to that country which is sometimes called 
the Silent Land; but in her case we hope that her tongue 
has been loosened, that her ears have been unstopped, so that 
she can hear and take part in the melodies of heaven. 
Thompson Lester married Elizabeth Hawkins. Allen M. Les- 
ter married Mrs. Rose Kibler, nee Rose Ridgell. George B. 
Lester married Sue Kempson. Willie Lester married Anna 
Hawkins. 

The Robert Brown Family. 
Robert Brown was born in County Antrim, Ireland, May 20, 
1702. He came to Newberry District, S. C, and married 
Nancy Young on April 8, 1794. By this marriage were born 
James, George, Young, Mary Russell and Elizabeth Moore. 
James Brown married Melvina Haynes, and moved with his 
family to Georgia. Young Brown married, first, Rhoda Schum- 
}>ert, and, second, Ann Russell, and then moved to Georgia. 
George Brown was born December S, 1810, and on April 10, 
1834, he married Lucinda Cureton, to whom were born Sarah 
C. Brown, Jas. R. Y. Brown, J. W. P. Brown, L. Carrie Brown 
and G. D. Brown. Sarah C. Brown died a maiden. James 
R. Y. Brown volunteered in the 13th South Carolina Regiment 
and was killed at the second battle of Manassas. J. W. P. 
Brown married Carrie Hawkins. L. Carrie Brown married 
H. C. Moseley and G. D. Brown married Mrs. Nancy Maffett, 
nee Nancy Moseley. 

The Ha^vkins Family. 
Peter Hawkins and wife came from Virginia and settled in 
the southern part of Newberry District. They were of En- 
glish extraction, and to them were born Jacob. Edward, Peter, 
William, Prudence Dennis and Elizabeth Rankin. Jacob Haw- 
kins married Jane Ganter, by whom were born Peter, George, 
Eliza and Sallie Young. Edward Hawkins married Rebecca 
Pearson, to whom were born Mark, i\.llen, Martha Young, 
Prudence, Phoebe Pugh, Polly Boozer and Anna Whitman. 



644 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

Peter Hawkins and family moved to Alabama in 1820. Wil- 
liam Hawkins married and moved to Greenville, S. C. Mark 
Hawkins married Jane Hunter, to whom were born Drayton, 
Pressley, Pierce, Miles, Harriet Boozer, Mary Boozer, Rebecca 
Boozer, Minta Sheppard and Anna Conwill. Allen Hawkins 
married Lavinia Fellers, who became the mother of George, 
Hayne and Carrie Brown. Drayton Hawkins married Nancy 
Boozer, to whom were born S. Berly, Bates, Paul, Reuben, 
Laura Nichols, Fannie Ham, Amanda Moore and Ella. Press- 
ley Hawkins married and moved to Florida. Pierce Hawkins 
married, first, Lucinda Schumpert, who brought him Pressley, 
Luther and several other children. His second wife was Mary 
J. Swindler. Miles Hawkins married Hattie Nichols and has a 
family of several children. Peter Hawkins married Mary De- 
Vall and moved to Tennessee. Rev. Jacob Hawkins, D. D., an 
eminent Lutheran divine, who now lives in Orangeburg County, 
is a son of this Peter Hawkins who moved to Tennessee. 
George Hawkins married Mary Harmon. A. Hayne Hawkins 
married Rhoda Hunter. 

Hentz. 

About the year 1700 Matthias Hentz lived near the mouth 
of Cannon's Creek on Broad River. There is a tradition in 
the family that his father, who lived in the lower German 
Settlement, was accused of witchcraft and suffered the penalty 
of death at the hands of fanatical neighbors by being smoth- 
ered between feather beds. If this be true, and even this is 
doubtful, it is the only case of the kind where the penalty of 
death for witchcraft was ever inflicted in South Carolina, by 
authority of law or without it; — while in enlightened New 
England, in the Province of Massachusetts, between the years 
1045 and 1695 many persons were put to death after due 
process of trial at law. In 1040 four persons were put to 
death in Massachusetts, in 1088, one woman was executed for 
witchcraft in Boston. "Then," says the historian, "commenced 
at Salem that dreadful tragedy which rendered New England 
for many months a scene of bloodshed, terror and madness, 
and at one time seemed to threaten the .subversion of civil 
society. In the year 1092, the frenzy of the colonists I'eached 
the highest pitch of extravagance. Suspicions and accusations 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



645 



of witchcraft became general among them; and on this fanciful 
charge many persons were put to death." .... (One 
historian says as many as twenty.) "Persons accused of the 
imaginary crime of witchcraft were imprisoned, condemned, 
lianged, and their bodies left exposed to wild beasts and birds 

of prey Children ten years of age were put to 

death; young women were stripped naked, and the marks of 
witchcraft sought for on their bodies with unblushing curi- 
osity The prisons were tilled, the gibbets left 

standing, and the citizens were appalled. Under this frightful 
delirium the miserable colonists seemed doomed to destruc- 
tion by each other's hands. The more prudent withdrew from 
a country polluted by the blood of its inhabitants, and the 
ruin of the colony seemed inevitable." The reader will please 
])ear in mind that none of these victims were burned at the 
stake, they were only hanged. The New Englanders are very 
touchy on that point. 

To return to Hentz. It is probable that the father of 
Matthias Hentz was the man who was murdered by the 
fanatic Weaver and his followers on the Saluda. The story 
is told by Dr. Hazelius, and also by Bernheim in his history 
of the Lutheran Church. Weaver was arrested, taken to 
Charleston, tried, convicted of murder and was hanged. 

After the murder of her husband the widow left the Saluda 
and removed to near the mouth of Cannon's Creek on Broad 
River, where she became the mother of Matthias Hentz. This 
13 related as a probability only. Matthias married and became 
the father of two sons: David and Michael. Michael moved 
to Georgia where he left numerous descendants, among them 
John, the husband of Caroline Lee Hentz, the celebrated 
authoress. John is the only one of the name, who ever 
sought or obtained public office. He served as County Sheriff 
and a member of the Legislature. 

David Hentz left two sons, Wm. R. and H. M., and three 
daughters, Mrs, John Adam Folk, of Pomaria; Mrs. Wm. 
Reid, of Cannon's Creek; and Mrs. George Sondley, of Bull 
Street. 

H. M. Hentz died in 1852, leaving an infant son, Wm. J. 
Wm. R. Hentz died in 1877, leaving four sons, D. J. ; T. M. ; 
Wm. A., and Dr. E. O. ; and one daughter, Mrs. P. M. 
Derrick. 



646 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



The male descendants of David Hentz are all now living 
on lands he owned and within five miles of them — except one 
great-grandson whose home is in Texas. 

I take pleasure in adding that so far as is known no Hentz 
has ever been arraigned before a couit or sued on a debt. 

Cromer. 
Philip, Christian and Jacob Cromer, brothers, lived on 
Second Creek, Newberry County. It is not known what be- 
came of Philip and Christian, further than that they have 
some descendants in North Alabama. Jacob Cromer, who was 
a gunsmith by trade, married a daughter of Jacob Folk, of 
Pomaria, by whom he left three sons, Abraham, Adam and 
David. David moved to Georgia, leaving one son, Andrew, 
the father of James and Pressley; and one daughter, Mrs. 
Millekin. Abraham died early, but left one son, A. Barham 
Cromer, and one daughter, Nannie, the wife of Capt. W. J. 
Lake, who now lives in the town of Newberry. Adam, who 
married Fannie Hoard, (whose i:)arents, with the Haynies and 
Buchanans, all closely related, came from Prince William 
County, Virginia,) left two sons, Thomas Hoard and Adam F., 
and one daughter, Mrs. William R. Hentz, — Thomas Hoard 
Cromer, who lived in the MoUohon section, reared a large 
family, viz.: Capt. W. Philander, who fell at Gettysburg; 
James L., now deceased; Jno. A.; W. C, present County 
Auditor; Walter, now in Arkansas; Cliarlton; George B., a 
lawyer of high standing and in good practice at Newberry; 
Buchanan; and two daughters, Mrs. Bridge.^, of Union, (who 
is the mother by her first husban 1 of J. P. Glasgow, of 
Gainesville, Texas, and of Bachmau Glasgow, of Newberry,) 
and Mrs. Dr. Geo. A. Setzler. Adam F. moved to Anderson; 
has three sons and one daughter and is still living. 

Adam Cromer, who was unusually well informed for his 
day, took a pai'tial course in mathematics and astronomy 
under Mr. Haynie, who was his wife's uncle. 

Besides this, the Cromer family has several branches, all 
from the same original stock. At one time they seemed 
almost indigenous to the soil and lived united and content; 
but now they are somewhat scattered. They are now, as they 
have always been, honest, industrious and economical; living 
true and iipright lives and fearing no man. 



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James H. Williams. 

James H. Williams was born in Newberry County, S. C. 
October 4th, 1813, and died at his home. Rocky Comfort, 
Ark, August 21st, 1892, in the 80th year of his age. 

His father was James Williams, a native of Newberry. 
The family was Welsh and immigrated to America with Lord 
Baltimore's colony. His mother was Isabella Shuttleworth of 
English pai'entage. His grandfather was killed at the seige 
of Ninety-Six, in the War of the Revolution. His father was 
a captain in the war of 1812. 

Col. Williams was an entirely self-educated man: not having 
had in his youth the advantages of a High School or Collegiate 
education. He seemed to have taken naturally to military 
life, as he enlisted in Col. Caldwell's Regiment of nullifiers 
iu 1831. He served in 1836 three months in the Indian War 
in Florida, belonging to Col. Goodwin's Regiment of Cavalry. 

In 1837 he was elected Major of the 38th Regiment, South 
Carolina Militia — resigned in 1843, and in the same year was 
elected Captain of the McDuffie Artillery at Newberry C. H. 
In 1846, January 29th, ho organized a company for the 
INIexican War for one year; afterwards organized an inde- 
}iendent company for the same war, and was mustered into 
the service of the United States on the 20th of January, 
1847, as Company L of the Palmetto Regiment. Took part 
in the seige of Vera Cruz and fought at Madelon Bridge, and 
at the capture of Alvarado. He marched with the army to 
Puebla and was engaged in the skirmish at the Pass of El 
Penal. August 8th he moved with Quitman's Division from 
Puebla in the advance on the City of Mexico. Fought at the 
battle of Contreras and captured General Mendoza and staff 
in their retreat. On the same day he was in the heat of the 
))attle at Cherubusco. Leading in the storming of Chupulte- 
pec and Garita de Belen his troops were the first Americans 
to make lodgment. He was wounded in this assault. He 
was amongst the first of the American officers to enter the 
City of Mexico. 

Soon after the capture of the city the war with Mexico 
closed and Colonel Williams returned home. He left Mexico 
in May, 1848, and was discharged from service in July of the 
same year at Mobile, Ala. 



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ANNALS OF NE^YEEREY. 



After his return home ho was elected Brigadier-General and 
then Major-General of Militia. He served four years as Mayor 
of the town of Newberry; four years as Commissioner of Equity 
and was a member of the Legislature, House of Representa- 
tives, for several terms. 

At the beginning of the war between the States he was 
elected Colonel of the 8d South Carolina Regiment of Volun- 
teers, which regiment went to Virginia in June, 1801, and was 
engaged in the battle of Bull Run or First Manassas. He 
served on the Potomac and in the Peninsula until the reor- 
ganization of the regiment in 1802. He afterwards commanded 
the 4th and 0th Regiments, State Troops, and was on duty in 
Charleston during the seige. He was at Florence and finally 
surrendered his command as part of Gen. Joe Johnston's x\rmy. 

After the war he was one of the delegates from the State 
to ask a Provisional Government for South Carolina. He was 
a member of the State Senate, elected in 1865, until RecoQ- 
struction became the order of the time. 

In 1867 he left Newberry and moved to Arkansas, where he 
engaged in planting, but soon again entered into public lifa 
He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1874, 
and assisted greatly in bringing order and prosperity out of 
chaos and commercial degradation. 

General Williams was a lawyer by profession. He was 
married in Newberry in 1844 to Miss Jane W. Duckett. -^He 
Avas the father of eight children, three of whom are living. 
One son, P. B. ^Yilliams, graduated at the Virginia Military 
Institute as 1st Lieutenant, Company A. Another son, J. C. 
Williams, has held several offices of trust. He, like his father, 
is a successful planter. 

BuER Johnstone Ramage 
Was a native of Newberry County and was born on the 
2nd day of December, 1817, three miles south of the town of 
Newberry. He was the eldest son of John Ramage from his 
marriage with Mrs. Lucy Kelly Henderson, who was then also 
married for the second time. His half-brothers and sisters 
loved him as a brother. His education was good, but limited 
to an academical course. Arriving at manhood he read law 
with Col. Simeon Fair — after admission to the Bar he en- 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 641> 

terecl into i)artner.ship with bis tutor and soon became one- 
of the best office law^^ers in Newberry — Colonel Fair always 
conducting the cases in Court. Upon the death of Mr. Y. J. 
Harrington, in 1850, who had been Clerk of the Court since- 
1808, Mr. Ramage was elected to that office. He was a most 
admirable officer, and was again and ajjain re-elected to that 
office, only once, however, without opposition. It is probable 
tint during that period he was the most popular man that 
Newberry ever had. During the war the Courts being virtually 
closed he declined re-election and accepted the situation of 
Agent of the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road at the New- 
berry Station. Ho served in that situation until 1870, when 
he resigned and retired to private life. 

Loving learning he gave all his children as good an educa- 
tion as possible, sparing no pains nor expense to that end.. 
He was himself a close observer of nature and took great and 
especial delight in the study of Botany. This w'riter has- 
gone to him more than once with plants which seemed strange^ 
l)ut which Mr. Ramage could always elucidate. 

His wife was Sarah Ann Wilson, daughter of AVilliam Wilson.. 
Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Newberry. He married in 
the year 184o. The fruits of this happy union were eight 
children; and it was said to be the happiest family in New- 
l)erry. To their intimate friends, those who knew them well, 
their home always seemed to be the perfection of peace and 
content. His w-ifo died in 1870, leaving him and his home 
desolate. One son and three daughters also preceded him to 
the grave. He was survived by one daughter and three sons, 
who are still living. One daughter. Miss Fanny, and one son, 
John, who is in business, live in Newberry; Bartow B., who is 
an Episcopal mmister, resides at Nashville; and Burr J., a 
lawyer, is also resident at Nashville, Tenn. None are married. 

Burr J. Ramage died October 28, 1890, and his body was 
interred the day following at the family burying ground, less 
than a half mile from the house in which he was born. 

James N. Lipscomb. 
Col. James N. Lipscomb was born at White Hall, in Abbe- 
ville County, April 11, 1827. His father was John Lijoscomb. 
He received his academical education at Edsrefield Court House 



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aad at Greeuwood Academy in Abbeville County. He grad- 
uated from the South Carolina College in December, 1847. 

Colonel Lipscomb was aide to General Bonham and Cap- 
tain of the College Cadets at eighteen years of age. In 
January, 1848, he was married to the eldest daughter of Gov. 
F. W. Pickens. He was thrice married. His second wife was 
«. Miss Simmons, and his third Miss Ella Motte; all of whom 
preceded him to the grave. 

In 1849 he removed to Florida, but returned to South 
Carolina in 1855 and settled in Newberry County. He was 
elected to the Legislature in 1860, being chairman of the 
delegation. 

In 1861, he was Adjutant-General on the Staff of Major- 
General M. L. Bonham, who commanded the military forces 
raised by Act of the Legislature in 1860. After the surrender 
of Fort Sumter, he went to Virginia with the first brigade 
that entered the Confederate service, with a commission as 
Its Lieutenant of Cavalry, as aide to General Bonham, in which 
position he served during the campaign of 1861. He joined 
the Second South Carolina Cavalry, and served seven months 
as acting Quartermaster. He was afterwards Assistant Adju- 
tant-General to Gen. M. C. Butler with rank of Captain, and 
was afterwards promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel 
on Major-General Butler's staff, whei-e he remained until the 
close of the war. He then returned to his home near Chap- 
pell's Depot where he engaged in farming. 

He was one of the original advocates of the nomination of 
Hampton and contributed largely to the success of the party. 
JFew men were more eft'ective in their appeals to the Democ- 
racy than he. He was elected State Senator from Newberry 
County from 1877 to 1880. He was elected Secretary of State 
in 1882— re-elected in 1884. 

He was made Master of the State Grange in 1874 or 1875, 
Tvhich position he held continuously — re-elected year after 
year — until his death. 

He has one brother, M. B. Lipscomb, living at Ninety-Six, 
^nd another. Col. Thos. J. Lipscomb, who was several years 
Superintendent of the State Penitentiarv", living in Columbia. 
He has several children living. He died at the home of his 
.«on-in-law in Bryson City, N. C, June, 1891. 



ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 651 

He was a good and useful man and died regretted by all 
who knew him. 



The Riser Family. 

The Risers came to this country from Germany before the 
Revolutionary war. The name was originally Roiser. They 
settled in the lower section of this county, and the place 
where Mr. James A. Riser now lives (1892) is i>a.xt of the 
old homestead. The father, who came from the old country, 
and his oldest son were both soldiers in the Revolution. He 
had five sons and three daughters. The sons were Adam, 
Martin, John, George and Jacob. They all left Newberry 
except Martin, from whom has descended a large progeny. 
Of the three daughters, one married a Sease and one a Cope- 
land. They all moved to Barnwell County, and so did John. 
Adam and Jacob moved to Mississippi. 

Martin Riser, who remained in Newberry County, was mar- 
ried three times, first to a Miss Sease. Their children were 
John, Martin, Christina, Eve and Lizzie. His second wife was 
u Miss Rikard, and to them were born Adam, George, Jacob, 
Mary, Harriet, Sallie and Susie. His third wife was a Mrs. 
Summer. All his children grew up and married and reared 
large families. 

Martin Riser, Jr., married, first, Mahala Cannon, and then 
Hannah Suber, and there were several children. Christina 
married a Dickert. Of her descendants I know nothing. Eve 
married, first, a Werts, and they had several children; one of 
whom, Susan, married Solomon P. Kinard, and one, Sallie, 
married Michael Fellers (whose first wife was Sallie Riser, an 
aunt), and one, Wm. M. Werts, is now (1892) a successful 
farmer of this county. At the death of Mr. Werts, Eve 
married Rev. Herman Aull, and to them were born two 
children, Mrs. Louisa C. Hunter, now living in Newberry, 
and Jacob Luther Aull, now living in Edgefield County. 
Lizzie married a Rhinehart. Adam moved to Louisiana, and 
in 1892 was living, hale and hearty, in his eighty-third 
year, for he says, in a letter written to his nephew, Judge 
Jacob B. Fellers, April 23, 1892, 'T work my garden and 
Irish potatoes and keep my orchard in trim and grape 



C53 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

vines." He -writes with a steady hand, the letters showing 
no tremuIoiTsness whatever. George went to Alabama. Jacob 
also went to the West. Mary married Thomas Cannon, and, 
at his death, Henry Koon. By the last iinion were born 
several children — Mrs. Thos. V. Wicker, who is still living, 
and two sons who were killed in the war. Harriet married 
Anderson Leitzsey. Sallie married Michael Fellers, the father 
of Jacob B. Fellers, now Probate Judge of Newberry, Mrs. 
G. F. Long, Mrs. J. D. Bowles, S. H. Fellers, and possibly 
others. Susie married Samuel Cannon. 

John Kiser, the son of Martin Riser, Sr., married Barbara 
Ann Zeigler, and to them were born ten children: William, 
John, Hartwell, George, Adam, James A., W^alter, Elizabeth, 
Anne and Lavinia. Of these, William married Elizabeth Berly 
and was the father of eleven children, six of whom are now 
(1892) living: Luther P. W. (in Newberry), John F. (Green- 
ville), William Wallace, for eight years Sheriff' of Newberry 
County and elected for a third term — the only man who was 
ever chosen Sheriff in Newberry for three successive terms- - 
George C. (Laurens), Thomas B., and Cornelia, wife of the 
Hon. Jno. W. Scott; Mary J. married Jno. L. Blackburn, 
both now dead — two children living; and Sallie, the first wife 
of Wallace C. Cromer, now Auditor of Newberry County; she 
is also dead. John married Elizabeth Rikard, and to them 
were born nine children, all of whom are living except Rev. 
Sidney T. Riser, who died in Staunton, Va., in the prime and 
vigor of young manhood. He was a minister of the Lutheran 
Church and a young man of great promise. Hartwell married 
a Miss Kinard and moved to Edgefield County and is still 
living, and only a short time ago celebrated his Golden Wed- 
ding. George married a Miss Peaster and was killed in the 
last battle of the war in North Carolina; he has two children 
still living. Adam is living in Columbia. James A. married 
a Miss Busby and lives in this county, near Pomaria, on the 
old homestead. Walter died young. Elizabeth married Adam 
Berly and is now dead. Anne is the wife of Alfred W. Bun- 
drick and is living in Newberry County. Lavinia married 
Belton Kibler, who was killed in the war. She still lives in 
this count V. 



annals of newberry. 652 

Barre. 

Jacob Barre, the father of Matthias Barre, of whom and his 
descendants I wish to write, was a son of Colonel Barre, who 
served in the Revolution. It is thought that he came to this 
country from the southern side of the Rhine, and settled in the 
Dutch Fork. Jacob Barre's wife was Mary Quattlebaum; their 
sons were John, Michael, Jacob and Matthias; there was one 
daughter, who died in childhood. Matthias Barre first married 
Mary Magdalene, daughter of Captain Henry Werts, and settled 
near where he was born. The other sons moved to Lexington 
County and one subsequently to Florida. There were ten 
children of Matthias Barre. All except one, Catherine, lived 
and were given in wedlock. 

The only son now living is D. Walter, a prosperous farmer 
and respected citizen. He married, first, Amanda Barre, of 
Lexington, and those of this union who are living are W. 
Matthias, himself twice married; Eloise, wife of Eugene L. 
Leavell, and Veda. Two daughters are dead, having been 
paired to good and honest men. 

Jacob, the eldest son, married Elizabeth, a sister of W. W. 
Houseal, and they settled in Lexington County, at Barre's. 
One of their daughters, Mrs. W. B. AuU, now lives in New- 
berry. The other children live near the old home, except 
Mrs. T>. L. Boozer, of Columbia. William A., the third son 
of Matthias Barre, married Hulda C. Goree. He has been 
dead several years, his widow and two daughters, Alice and 
Olive, surviving. Eliza Caroline, the eldest daughtei-, married 
W^m. Walter Houseal, elsewhere mentioned in these biographies. 
Martha became the wife of David Holman, and they moved 
to Mississippi in 186(). Both wife and husband are dead. 
There were twelve children, but their names I do not know. 
Harriet, the third daughter, and Frances, the sixth daughter, 
married, subsequently, A. Michael Bowers, and left one child 
each, Olivia and James M. Julia A. married D. W. T. Kibler, 
whose oldest son, Calhoun, died suddenly in early manhood. 
The daughters — Mary, wife of Wm. Johnson; Lizzie, wife of 
Wm. A. Kinard; Alma, wife of Robert F. Bryant, of Orange- 
burg; Lilla and Gussie — and the sons, Dr. James M., Robert 
and Lawson, now live in New', or y, and Trannio, wife cf Dr. 
Jno. A. Simpson, in Prosperity. 



654 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Mary E., the youngest of the children, married, in 1892, 
Jesse A. Rawls, of Haralson, Ga. 

Matthias Barre's second wife was Jane Berly, who is still 
living. Their children were John J., Sallie, and Lillie, who 
became the devoted wife of B. F. Griffin. She has passed 
into the rest of the pure and good. 

John J. Barre met a tragic death in Florida, whither he 
had gone to the home of his uncle, to avoid the Ku Klux 
persecutions in 1872. He was a brave man, tall and stalwart, 
and a universal favorite in the town of Newberry. It was 
while endeavoring to prevent a difficulty, as he thought, at 
Ellisville, Florida, between Charles Carroll and Daniel Wingate, 
two brothers in-law, on Saturday afternoon, November 23d, 
1872, that he and his cousin James Barre were shot down 
by the two brothers-in-law with shotguns loaded with buckshot. 
The young men were entirely unsuspicious of an attack from 
the brothers-in-law — who left the store of James Barre in 
apparent great anger, presumably to settle with arms the dif- 
ficulty between themselves. One of the brothers in-law, Car- 
roll, had a spite against James Barre, and it was plain after 
the assassination of the two young men that the difficulty 
between Wingate and Carroll was simply a decoy to get the 
cousins to follow them out of the store. No word of quarrel 
had ever passed between them and Wingate and Carroll, the 
latter of whom carried the double-barrelled shotgun and did 
the shooting, John Barre receiving seven buckshot in the left 
breast and James Barre seven buckshot in the right breast 
just as they started out of the store. The body of John J. 
Barre was brought to Newberry and buried in Rosemont Cem- 
etery after funeral services in the Lutheran Church on Satur- 
day afternoon, December 13th. 

Matthias Barre died on Sunday morning, Api-il 27th, 1873, 
in his 74th year. He had been for nearly twenty years a 
citizen of the town, having removed from his Bush River 
plantation to Newberry in 1854. No more useful citizen, or 
one more beloved for his many estimable qualities, ever lived. 
In the sudden, untimely death of his son John J., it might be 
said he received his death-stroke, for he never recovered from 
it. He was a devout member of the Lutheran Church, tD 
whose support he contributed liberally of the means with 
which he had been abundantly blessed. 



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annals of newberry. gos* 

Werts. 

The brothers, Henry Werts and John Werts, the ancestors 
of the Wertses of Newberry, Egdefield and Orangeburg, at 
the age of eighteen and sixteen years respectively, were bruve- 
and ardent Whigs in the Eevolutionary War. They were of 
German descent. One incident related of these two brothers 
shows how much the Tories desired their capture in order to^ 
wreak their vengeance upon them. While the two brothers 
were at home one day in the summer of 1780, a party of' Tories- 
heard of their presence in the neighborhood and endeavored 
to capture them. Their coming was a surprise to the young 
soldiers and they barely had time in which to escape. They 
selected as a hiding place, unique and novel, the hollow banks 
of Crim's creek, and there took refuge behind the luxuriant 
grass and the thick overhanging undergrowth of briar. The- 
Tories searched up and down the creek, thrusting swords and 
bayonets into the undergrowth, endeavoring to strike the two- 
])rave brothers with mortal wounds. Their search was all in 
vain. The young soldiers had a narrow escape, however, for 
several times the Tories' swords pierced through the under- 
growth in uncomfortable proximity as they crouched in their 
hiding place beneath the banks of the creek. The brothers 
afterwards did valiant service in the Revolution, and were 
made captains in the early days of the militia. 

Captain Henry Werts had ^fivc sons, Henry, John, Davicly 
Michael and Adam, who all settled on Bush River, and four 
daughters, Elizabeth. Mary Magdalene, (who became the wife 
of Matthias Barre), Catherine and Tena. Henry, the eldest 
son, never married. John married Eve Riser, and their chil- 
dren Avere Tena, Sarah, Susan, John and William M. Tena 
married Peter Rikard and Sarah married Michael Fellers.. 
Susan married Solomon P. Kinard, who was appointed post- 
master at Xewberry in 1S52. He held the office under the 
Confederate Government, being also reappointed after the war. 
His surviving children m Newberry are James H. M., one of 
the proprietors of the Newberry Observer, Melissa, wife of 
B. H. Lovelace; William A.; Thomas Edward, an engineer, lives 
in Georgia; John A., eldest son, died in 1887; Mary, eldest 
daughter, wife of W. H. Blats, died in 1892. William ]M 
Werts, twice married; first Elizabeth, the daughter of Squire- 



056 ANNALS OF NE^^ BEEKY. 

Samuel Bowers; of their three sons, James, Samuel and William, 
James and Samuel are living. The daughters are Lavinifi, 
wife of John Mathis, Leonora Alice, wife of J. W. Hartman, 
Sallie Eve, wife of Andi*ew M. Count??, and Bettie, the youngest, 
dead. The second wife of William M. was the widow of Levi 
Wheeler. Edward S., son by this union, is a teacher in 
Knoxville, Tenn. Another son, William, died in infancy. 

David W^erts married Mary Lever. One of their sons, JoLn 
A., a good man esteemed by all his neighbors, died in 18')1. 
leaving a widow and three children. Of the family of J. Bel- 
ton, who has moved away, I know but little. A daughter i.-. 
the wife of Braxton B. Davis, who lives in Newberry. 

The sons of Michael (who mai-ried Susan, daughter of Col. 
John Summer of the Dutch Fork), were Michael, who nc w 
(18*J'2) is a successful farmer and true citizen, living at Silvtr 
Street; Henry, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Caroline, and Susan. It 
appears almost an interminable labyrinth in the tics of the 
relationshiji which the compiler endeavors to trace out in 
these biographies. Michael married Elizabeth, daughter and 
only child of David Stephens, a man noted for independence 
of thought and more than ordinary intelligence. Their chil- 
dren now living are Alice, wife of J. Fred. Schumpert; Emma, 
wife of Dr. Jas. M. Kibler, whose grandfather, Matthias Barre, 
was the husband of her great aunt — an instance of the afore- 
said labyrinthal tie that binds humanity together; Fannie, 
wife of James L. Morehead; Maggie, Clarence and Florence. 
Henry and Jonathan married sisters, Nancy and Drucilla 
Spearman, and their descendants form a thrifty element in the 
Silver Street section. Eliza Avas the wife of John Elmore of 
Newberry. Caroline was the wife of William B. Eeagin, and 
their living children are James B., John W., Robert T., G. 
Burton, and Elizabeth C. One son, Henry W., was killed in 
the war; one daughter, Susan, wife of J. D. Suber, is dead. 
Susan married George Long and survives him. Their children 
were Latimer W. and several others dead, and Geo. M., living, 
in Florida. 

The elder Michael W^erts was thrice married; Adelaide, only 
«hild of the second union, was the wife of Thos. M. Paysinger. 

Adam W^erts married Elizabeth' Hope and left two sons who 
moved to Edgefield, and another, Davil, living near Deadfall. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 057 

^ Captaia John Werts reared two sons and three danghters, 
William, Henry, Barbara, Tena and Catherine. William, the 
eldest of his sons, married Elizabeth Bowers. One of their 
sons, the Rev. J. H. W. Wertz (final s changed to z) was a 
Lutheran minister and died in 188^^. One of his Fons, Joseph 
Quincy Wertz, is also a Lutheran minister and lives in North 
Carolina. Several sons of John Werts settled in Edgefield. 

Henry, the second son of Capt. John Werts, married Eliza- 
beth Lever; of their sons, Dr. D. H. We)ts now lives near 
Slighs, G. Paul, living at the oil home place: Edward and 
W. Anderson, dead; Henry Middletoa and Wesley, killed in 
the war. Barbara, eldest daughter of Join Wer's, married 
John Berly, who is elsewhere mentioned in the-e biographies. 
Tena married William Kinard and their childretj were Adam. 
Keren-Happo3h, wife of Capt. H. H. Riser, cf Edgefiekl: 
Catherine, wife of W. A. Hipp, whose f^^ons are Mose-i Q. Hipj) 
and J. J. Hipp; Elizabeth, wife of Major Jacob Epting, whose 
children are L. Irsenius, Bunyan O., Julius J., Nannie, wife 
of G. M. Abies, Dr. Berly R., a i>hy.'-ician oi Gr>-enwood, 
Monroe J., a Lutheran minister, Thomas and Charles. 

In the biography of the family of Captain John Werts I 
find that five of his desendants became ministers of the Gos- 
pel. First, his grandson, that consecrated man, earnest stu- 
dent and powerful preacher, Wm. Berly; then his great grand- 
son, J. Eusebius; contemporary with the elder Berly came 
another grandson. Rev. J. H. W. Wertz, who was a pioneer 
of the Lutheran Church in building up the waste places, and 
his son, Joseph Quincy; and in the third generation. Rev. 
Monroe J. Epting. Truly they had godly fathers and conse- 
crated mothers. 

Counts. 
John Counts, a descendant of tlie original Kountze family 
of Germany, married Elizabeth Eichelberger on May 15, 1810. 
They both died while their son George was yet a child, and 
he was reared by Philip Sligh, a man whose life was full of 
many similar noble acts. This son is now known as George 
A. Counts, Jr. He married Harriet Cromer, and they have 
quite recently celebrated their goldren wedding, at which all 
their children were present — ave sons and six dauo-hters, rs 
2 ° IT 



058 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

follows: Elizabeth, wife of John W. Monts; Fannie, wife of 
Isaiah Haltiwanger; Mary, wife of A. D. Haltiwanger; John A.; 
Lenora, wife of A. H. Wheeler; Texanna, wife of Capt. John F. 
Banks; Janie, wife of G. Burt. Reagin; Walter" P.; Ernest O., 
principal of the Prosperity High School; Henry P., a Lutheran 
minister at Haralson, Ga. ; William A., now priQcipal of the 
Mt. Tabor High School. All the sous have also married. 

George A. Counts, Sr., now familiarly known as "Little 
George" Counts, to distinguish him from Geo. A. Covints, Ji\, 
came to Newberry from Lexington County. He also descended 
from the German family, Kountze. The baptismal name of 
his wife was Susannah Singley. Of their children the marital 
names of the daughters are Caroline Long, Mary Miller, Louisa 
Sheely. Two sons, Jacob C. and Andrew M., are also married. 
J. Luther, the eldest son, is dead — a widow and several chil- 
^Iren surviving him. 

Rev. Herman Aull. 
One of the most beautifully significant features in the in- 
cipient declaration of the Gospel is the selection for that 
purpose of a few unlettered men, some of whom were laboring 
for their living in the humblest of occupations, namely, that 
of fishermen — the most notable among them being, as that 
class of laborers have ever usually been, addicted to coarse, 
irreligious behavior. Only Divine W^isdom could perceive 
under their uncouth exteriors the more excellent way waiting 
to be shown to them. We have reason to believe that two 
of them, James and John, were turbulent, vindictive men 
l)efore such showing; and that a third one, Peter, was a tickle 
boaster and profane swearer. Yet there was iu their rugged 
natures seed which in the former, under spiritual culture, 
sprang up into faithfulness unto death, and love the purest 
for God and fellow-man; while the Holy Ghost caused to 
flourish in the vacillating heart of the latter the very enthu- 
siasm of constancy to the cross. It is true, there was one 
Avho, before he was called to preach the Gospel, had acquired 
much learning at the feet of a great teacher; and he was 
chosen to disseminate among the learned what had been de- 
clared to the simple by the unskilled in worldly wisdom; but 
before he could be fitted for his office he had to be prostrated 



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physically and morally aacl be coatiuually buffettoJ afterwards 
by the messenger of Satan, until ho became wise throngh the 
foolishness of preaching. 

My memory reaches back to some unpretending men whose 
devotion to the cause of Christ may somewhat illustrate the 
meaning of the above intioduction; and serve also to show, 
that Zion is now-a-days, as she ever has been, upheld by the 
pure, simple energy of the humble. 

Along an extent of perhaps ten miles up and down the 
Saluda River there stepped forth from the rustling corn fields 
some half-dozen men of mature age and sound judgment — of 
little liability to be deceived — honest and inflexible, who felt 
assured that they were called to preach the Word. They 
were men of very limited book-learning, and knew not how 
to convince themselves or others of the truth by process of 
reasoning — that is to say, by logic. They did not all come 
forth at the same time. From the year 1824, when the Synod 
of South Carolina was organized, to 1831 or '35 it became 
known, from time to time, that Jost Meetze and Michael 
Rauch, between Lexington Court House and the Saluda, had 
ventured to proclaim the great Glad Tidings to their neigh- 
bors, and between the Saluda and Newberry, Jacob Moser, 
Godfrey Dreher and Herman AuU stood up to show the people 
their transgressions and the only way of escape from the con- 
sequences of them. There w'ere others, but these whose names 
are here mentioned were seen and heard by myself; and it is 
of the last named, Herman Aull, I propose to write a short 
account, because I knew him, and because he was a citizen of 
Newberry County (District); and, indeed, because some of his 
numerous descendants, I think, are my warm friends. 

Herman Aull (or as he was more frequently called Harmon 
Aull) was not born in the Dutch Fork, that is, in the area of 
country irregularly laid off, by a radius varying from five to 
ten miles long, around a centre fixed at Pomai*ia Depot ob 
the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road. He came into this 
neighborhood from one of the most southern counties — probably 
Beaufort. It is impossible to ascertain any facts relating to his 
parentage or to the colony of immigrants from which he became 
separated to seek his better fortune further on in the interior 
of South Carolina. From the fact that he was lound to one 



600 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Mr. Jolia Sultan, as an apprentice to learn the carpenter's trade, 
he must have been a boy when he came into the community 
where he lived and died. At the time of his arrival in the 
Dutch Fork, the German language was the mother-tongue in 
every family. It comes within my easy recollection how the 
Dutch Fork people struggled against the encroachment of the 
English language. They soon became completely surrounded 
by settlements of Irish and Scotch who of course spoke En- 
glish destined, at it was easily foreseen, to supplant the Ger- 
man; which really did come to pass, in the course of a half 
century. The change from one language to the other, how- 
ever, was very gradual, and brought about a j)atois, or dialect 
which was called, ^^Broken English.''' \Yell-marked traces of 
this can be recognized at the present time on both sides of 
the Saluda from Prosperity to Columbia. Herman Aull's 
mother-tongue was undoubtedly the German. I was young 
when I for the first time heard him preach, and this ^^Broken 
English"' was plainly perceptible in his utterance. For in- 
stance, such phrases as "T/ie Grace of Gocl,'^ '■^Come hither, 
souls" he pronounced, "Z>e crace of Cot," ^^Come heeder, souls." 
This was also the manner of Mr. Meetze, Mr. Kauch and 
others. I was about sixteen years of age when I heard these 
pioneer preacliers, and fifty-six years have not obliterated my 
remembrance of the pensive emotion excited by the tender 
persuasiveness this "J5roA;en English" gave to their preaching; 
— similar to the charm given to the Waverly Novels by the 
dialect of the Scottish Highlanders. 

Sixty years ago, the young men of the Dutch Fork retained 
many of the wild, frolicksnme habits which their forefathers 
brought with them from the Fatherland. Perhaps the wildest 
of these customs was, to ramble throughout the night of 
Christmas Eve, in companies of a dozen persons, from house 
to house, firing heavily charged guns, and having thus aroused 
the family they would enter the domicile with stamping 
scramble to the blazing lire, greedily eat the ivxtetzilies and 
schneckilies, imbibe, with many a rugged joke and ringing 
peal of laughter, heavy draughts of a compound liquor made 

of rum and sugar, butter and alspice stewed together, and 
then, 

"With mouie au eldritch screetch an' hollo," 
rush out into the night to visit the next neighbor. 



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001 



It was narrated by people of old, that Herman AuU, in 
the vivacity of youth, was easily led to participate in all the 
jovialty v.hich marked the behavior of the young in his day. 
He, however, did not permit the vagaries of youthfnlness to 
encroach upon the soberness of manhood. I could mention 
other names of men in the Dutch Fork besides Herman AuU 
whose follies ia the first half of their lives served as contrasts 
by which the beauty of holiness in their latter days shone 
v>'ith brighter lustre. 

What caused Mr. Aull to change his ways I am unable to 
state ; but a change did take place in his mind and conduct, 
to the extent of urging him to apply, in 1831, to the Synod 
of South Carolina for license to preach the Gospel of Jesus 
Christ. Before tbi^, he married Miss Christina Rikard, and 
had combined the occupation of the farmer with that of the 
carpenter. There can be, I think, no labor of the hands so 
suggestive of the duty to meditate long and prayerfully upon 
the claims of Christianity, — so persuasive to the spirit of man 
to yield obedience to the Spirit of Christ, as the tilling of 
crops and the building of homes. That must be a dull hus- 
bandman who can cast forth his seed over his field withou.t 
calling to mind the parable of the sower, and dwelling upon 
its simple but searching applications. That must, likewise, be 
a dull carpenter, who while "planing his wood"' does not feel 
a thrill of delight in the thought that his Lord and Master 
"was the same trade as he.'' I cannot refrain from inserting 
here the pathetic ballad so well recited by Dr. Alleman in his 
baccalaureate sermon, delivered some years ago, before the 
students of Newberry College: 

'%-AME TRADE AS ilE." 

Isn't this Joseph's sou? Aye, it is He, 

Joseph the carpenter— sarae trade as me; 

I thought as I'd find it, I knew it was here, 
But my sight's getting queer. 

I don't know right where, as His shed must ha' stood — 

But, often as I've been a planing of my wood, 

I took off my hat, just with thinking of He 
At the same work as mo. 

He warn't that set up, that He couldn't stoop down 

And work in the country for folks in the town ; 

And I'll warrant He felt a bit pride, like I've done, 
At a good job begun. 



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The parson, be knows that I'll not make too free 
But Sunday I feels as pleased as can be 
When I •wears my clean smock — bran new, 
And has thoughts a few. 

I think of as how, not the parson his sen [self] 
As is teacher and father and shepherd of men, — 
Not he knows as much of the Lord in that shed, 
Where He earned His own bread. 

And when I goes home to my Missus, says she, 
"Are you wanting your key?" 

For she knows my queer ways, and my love for the shed, — ■ 
(We've been forty years wed.) 

So I've come right away by myself with the book, 
And I tiirn the old pages and has a good look 
For the text as I've found, as tells me as He 
Was the same trade as me. 

''Why don't you mark it?" Ah, many says so, 
But I think I'd as lif with your leave let it go ; 
It do seem that nice, when I fall on 't sudden you see; 
"Was the same trade as me." 

Xow, whatever might have been the circumstances impelling 
Herman Aull to abandon his ways of carelessness, — whether 
of sudden or gradual influence, it is not remembered, — be did 
turn earnestly to his Saviour, and in him became a new 
creature. In 1831 he was licensed to preach, and four years 
afterwards in 1885, he was fully orda'ned. His held of work 
was mostlj' a' St. Paul's, in those days called Kibler's Church; 
though he often preached beyond the Saluda in Lexington 
and Edgefield. It was in St. John's Church, near the Pomaria 
homestead, where I heard him. for the first time. Though 
young, I was old enough to notice, and I have retained firmly 
in my memory some remarkable foatures of his person and 
manners. He was small of stature, and quick in his move- 
ments. His hair was black and strait, and his eyes were 
brown and bright. In the puljnt he would frequently depress 
his chin upon his breast, and glancing his gaze from under 
his eye-brows pause and bestow over his congregation looks 
of sternness tempered Avith pity. The hymn he gave out at 
that time was one which I believe must have been his favorite 
— his song of repentance. la the Book of Worship it is 
numbered 360. From the feeling manner of his reading, it 
seemed that every stanza must have recalled the days of his 
waywardness. 



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063 



Jesus my all to heaven is gone 
He whom 1 fixed my hopes upon ; 
His tracks I see, and I'll pursue 
The narrow way, 'til him I view. 

I felt sure, from the slow movement of his head to the 
right and to the left, that the third and foiirth stanzas affected 
him with sorrow. 

This is the way I long have sought 
And mourned because I found it not ; 
My grief a burden long has been, 
Because I could not cease from sin. 

The more I strove against its power 
I sinned and stumbled but the more ; 
'Til late I heard my Saviour say, 
Come hither, soul, for I am the way. 

In his "Broken English," he pronounced the word, "hither," 
"/ie-e-der," with a tremulous and prolonged emphasis that 
was truly touching. 

The Rev. Herman Aull labored as a preacher from 1831 to 
the time of his death, in 1852 — twenty-one years. I think he 
might have truly said to the people, whom he endeavored to 
instruct in the way of salvation, that he eat no man's bread 
for naught; but wrought with labor and travail that he might 
not be chargeable to any of them. I, myself, when visiting 
his house professionally in 1842 saw him coming from his 
field to greet me. His face was moist with the sweat of labor 
and his shirt-sleeves were rolled above his elbows. As I took 
his hand, and felt the palm hardened by contact with the 
plough-handles, I could not help admiring the old man. 

Two sons, John P. Aull and Calvin W. Aull, and several 
daughtei's were born from the marriage with Christina Eikard. 
After her death he married a widow Werts whose baptismal 
name was Eve Kiser. From this union came Jacob Luther 
Aull and Louisa, the widow of the late Nathan A. Hunter. 

These preachers of the Lutheran Church in the interior of 
South Carolina ought to bo retained in honorable and affec- 
tionate recollection. They were the short, massive, unpolished 
pillars upon which rest the arches of the temple of Luther- 
anism along the Saluda River. Let some others, possessed of 
facts, and inclined to honor the worthy dead, write brief 
chronicles of Meetze, Raueh, Drehor, and the rest of these 



004 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

early farmer preachers, to hold them up for somewhat longer 
remembrance in the Church of their upholding, as I have at- 
tempted to do for Herman Aull, whose heart was not the 
weakest among theirs in love and zeal for the cause of Christ. 

O. B. M., Sr. 

John P. Aull, one of the sons of the llev. Herman Aull, 
was a man who was long and favorably known to the people of 
Newberry County, as a man of sterling integrity of character, 
enterprise and industry. He was the organizer, and for many 
years the president and manager of the Newberry Steam Mill 
Company. He took priJa and pleasure in his work and made 
his institution second to, none of the kind in the country. It 
is in this way that true nobility of character is . shown. 
Measured by this standard John P. Aull was of gentle, even 
noble birth. Thiswriter knew him for many years — had some 
business transactions with him and found him always a true 
man. Mr. Aull, brought up in the Lutheran Church, lived 
and died in that communion. He was born February 22, 
1822; married lirst Caroline McQaeras; second Eugenia L. 
Smith; and died at his home by the Steam Mill, January 
1st, 1879, leaving several sons and daughters, who, we hope 
and believe, are worthy descendants of Rev. Herman Aull, 
who was rated by my old friend, Dr. IMayer, as one of the 
best of men. There are two children, James H. and Carrie, 
by the first marriage; and by the second mariage there are 
William B. ; Edward P., and Henry P., in Florida; Drucilla, 
wife of D. C. Lake, now in Texas; S. Beauregard; Leila E., 
wife of A. J. Sitfcon, of Pendleton; John I. H. and Anna 
Bachman. 

William Calvin, another son of Kev. Herman Aull, married 
Nancy Stockman. He died of wounds in the war in 1803. 
His children are John M., George B., now County Commis- 
sioner of Newberry County; Lizzie, married a Taylor; Mary, 
wife of J. M. Werts; Adam L. Aull, and Fannie, wife of David 
Cromer. 

Note to Page 622. — In sketch of Riser family, Mary, who married 
Thomas Cannon, had one child by the union with Cannon, and that child 
is ow the wife of Col. J. C. S. Brown. Mrs. Wicker w'as not Mrs. Can- 
non's child as stated. Her children after her marriage with Koon were 
Mrs. Thomas M. Lake, Mrs. J. Benson Suber and John O. Koon. 



annals of newberry. 0g5 

Conclusion of Biographical and Family Sketches. 

Human life i-s embosomed ia mystery. Its conscious exist- 
ence begins with a struggle; a gasp; a cry, whether of sorrow, 
or pain, or surprise, who can tell? It eads with struggles 
growing feebler and feebler, until they terminate in a gasp, 
longer than that with which it began, and then darkness. 
Whither has the life fled? 

Of very few of us can more be said after we have left 
here, than that he was born, he lived and he died. Even of 
those called great; of those who made some noise and stir 
while passing through life, only a pale, dim shadow after 
awhile is left, and the succeeding generations soon begin to 
call in (piestion the fact, and to doubt whether such and such 
a man ever lived at all. The glory departs from the name 
and the name fades away. Many deny the existence of Wil- 
liam Tell, and the Swiss mountains that were made memorable 
and holy by his deeds of heroic resistance to the tyranny of 
Austria, now hesitate to tell the story, for fear that they will 
l)e said to repeat that which was only a lie from the begin- 
ning. In low and murmuring tones only, do they tell the tale 
to the peasants of the hills and valleys of the Alps, for they 
know that the story is not false which says that Tell shot the 
apple from the head of his son, leaving an arrow in his belt 
to shoot the heart of the tyrant Gessler, if the first had killed 
his son. But the world now is fain to believe that Tell never 
lived. 

In our humble record of the lives and families of the men 
whose names are written here, there may, perhaps, be few 
Tells; but here are men and women who lived heroic lives 
and died heroic deaths. We have found that Newberry, blessed 
by a genial climate and grateful soil, without the awe-inspir- 
ing Alps, has produced sons and daughters worthy of any 
land. Even they whose names are entirely obscure, of whom 
it can only be said that they lived and died — even they did 
their duty faithfully in the sphere in which they moved;— 
and of no man nor woman can a greater woi'd be saivl than 
that he, or "she hath done what she could." 

The writer of these brief biographical sketches of the men 
and women and the families of Newberry, begs his readers to 
believe that he has tried to write truthfully, so as to make a. 



066 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

faithful and just record of the times and of the men. When- 
ever he was able to write words of praise, it was always to 
him a source of deep, the very deepest, joy. To write words 
of blame is no pleasure. The pen of the historian — the pen 
of the annalist, should have, and should exhibit no animosity 
in recording the lives and actions of even the vile and the 
base. But the words of the recorder should glow and burn 
with an ardent fire of love and admiration, when he writes 
the lives of the pure and good. 

If, in the judgment of the reader, this record falls short; 
if some names are not mentioned which should have been; if 
some brave deeds remain still unrecorded, we can only beg 
our readers to believe that we have done our best under the 
disabilities and environments by which we have been sur 
rounded and bound. The work is not perfect; nor is there 
anything perfect in this world except God. 

Hereafter, when the writer and compiler of this book shall 
have passed away, another scribe will take up and carry on 
the work. 

Some pessimistic poet sums up his views of human life in 
the following lines: 

"A moment's halt, a momentary taste 
Of being from the well amid the waste, 
And lo! the phantom caravan has reached 
The nothing it set out from — O, make haste!" 

Another poet, not quite so pessimistic, writes thus of the 
approaching end of the career of one of his heroes: 

"To this conclusion we must come at last, — 
That he was born, he lives and soon will die; 

The last sands of his life are ebbing fast; 

Soon will his soul mount upwards to the sky; 

Soon will his body sink into the tomb, 

Its final rest— nought can avert that doom." 



ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. GCl 



X. 

THE CHURCHES. 

LUTHERAN. 

I have elsewhere stated that the Lutheran Church has a 
larger number of communicants in the county than any 
other church or denomination. They Avere the first settlers, 
came in greater numbers and, all being members of the 
different branches of the great Teutonic family, naturally 
flocked together. From Bei-nheim's "History ofthe German 
Settlements and the Lutheran Church in the Garolinas," and 
other sources I glean the following facts as to the Church in 
Newberry County: 

The Newberry County Germans were mostly all descendants 
from the original German settlers in Saxe-Gotha Township, 
with an occasional addition from the German settlements of 
North Carolina and Virginia. It received its Teutonic element 
previous to the year 1740, and the descendants of those settlers 
are still there and the Lutheran Church is firmly established 
amongst them. The Swiss element largely predominated over 
the other German nationalities, though there were Germans 
from the Palatinate, Austria, Wurtemburg and Holland. 

On the 29th of February in the year one thousand seven 
hundred and eighty-eight was incorporated the "German Pro- 
testant Church of Bethany on Greene Creek," which is supposed 
to have been in Newberry County; but its location cannot 
now be found, nor any trace of the church. Does the map 
of Newberry show a Green Creek anywhere':' Or docs any- 
body know a creek by that name now? 

There were other Lutheran Churches in Newberry in 1788, 
incorporated by the same Act, namely: "The German Lutheran 
Church of Bethlehem on Forest's (Fust's) Ford; the German 
Lutheran Church of St. Jacob's on Wateree Creek, and the 
German Lutheran Church of St. Martin's." St. Martin's was 
organized after the Eevolutionary War; when the others 
were is not known, but the probability is that they had no 
pastor before that war. The first pastor they are known to 



668 ANNALS OF NEWBERIiY. 

bavo luul was the llev. Frodorick Joseph WalltM-:i, l)ut tbi- 
date of Ins arrival in Newberry is not now known. 

Rev. R. J. Miller, in his Missionary Rei)ort nnder date of 
November 1*,), 1811, speaks veiy highly of the Saluda congre- 
gations, as follows: ''From Hollow Creek Church, called Salem, 
I preached through all the G(>rman congregations in the neigh- 
borhood until the 2Sth. It is a pleasure to labor here; the 
peoj)le love the Gospel of Jesiis and his servants." 

Rev. Wallern labored as pastor in Newberry District; and a 
Rev. Mr. Wiackhouse, wlio afterwards preached occasionally in 
the Saluda charge made vacant by the death of Rev. C. E. 
Bernhardt, was also a resident of the same district; but when 
he commenced and ended his labors in Newberry is not 
known to the \vrit(>r. It is possible that some of these 
churches in the Saluda charge wero in Lexington County. 
By means of the labors of Revs. A\'allern and Winckhouse 
the Newberry churches were preserved from annihilation, 
although Rev. Wallern was a worldly-minded man and at- 
tended industriously to his })lanting and other worldly inter- 
ests, as is still reported of him, and at which Rev. R. J. 
Miller hints, when he said in his Missionary Report: ''I went 
to the Lutheran minister, Wallern; found him about his farm- 
ing business; convex'sed that evening and the following day 
much with him on the state of the Church, of religion and 
on other subjects, and found him a man accpiainted with the 
world. Sunday, the Sth, I preached in his (;hurch. Ho ac- 
companied me also the following day to a funeral, where J 
addressed the people on the subject of death and preparation; 
he preached from Ps. 37:18. On the following day I ju'cached 
to a small, but to all appearance serious, people, and there- 
with linished my missionary tour for this year.'' 

At the meeting of Synod on the 10th of October, 1814, at 
Organ Church, Rowan County, North Carolina, among other 
congregations received in connection with Synod was one ironi 
Newberry District, South Carolina, of which Michael and Peter 
Rickard, Andrew Wecker and Mnrtiii Kinard were elders. This 
church is believed to have been St. Paul's. At that meeting 
of Synod in accordance with a Vr^ritten communication from 
Brother John Dreher, of South Carolina, and upon his desire, 
it was "Resolved, That negro slaves b;> iastrnct3d in our holy 



ANNAl.H OF Ni:\VBi;i!l<Y. C)(')\) 

rtdigiou, and b(^ recoivcd into our Cliurch as iJLi('nib(^r.s; and 
Ibat congrogatioriH should mako proper nrrangoments in their 
Jiou.scs of worshi[) to j^ivo tho kIhvos also the ()i)])ortunity to 
hear tli(i Gos[)h1. It was also Ilosolved, Thai all our minis- 
ters unite thomselvc^s to labor at^ainst tho pernioious influence 
and consequences of danfinf;; and s(H'k to ])r(>v('iit it in ev(M'Y 
j)0ssible way." 

>St. Paul's ('liiurh in Newberry District was dedicated on 
the third Sunday in June, 1S;>(>, l)y iiev. Messrs. llaucli and 
Schwartz. But a church had been in existence lu;re for eighty 
years, or more. It was a new (-hurch building dedicated in 
1S;'0. A revived state of n^ligion had been visible for some 
time* jjast, and soon after the dedication of the church thirty- 
seven persons were added at one time by confirmation. 

llev. William Berly, a graduate of the Theological Seminary 
at Lexington, was licensed to ])reach in ISIJO; labored for a 
time in Newberry District; was for several years Principal of 
the Female Acadeiny at Newberry, and was elected the Second 
Professor of tho Theological Seminary at Lexington, where- 
upon he removed to that plac(^ After the removal of the 
Seminary to Newberry he establi.slK^d a Female Academy ncsar 
Lexington, of which he was Principal until a short time before 
his death. He died A])ril 18th, 1878, at his home in Lexing- 
ton Village. 

Kev. Herman Aull, with others, was licensed ])y Synod in 
1831, before tho Theological Seminary went into full opera 
lion. He lived, labored and died in Newberry District. A 
grandson of his, E. H. Aull, Esq., is (18'.)2) editor of the 
Newberry Herald and Nors. Many other worthy descendants 
of his are also living in the county. 

Rev. Elijah Elmoro was licensed to preach Nov(inib('r '21th, 
1848. He labored in Georgia until his deatii. He was a 
grandson of llev. Giles Chapman, mentioned in Judge O'NealFs 
Annals, and was born about three and a half miles south of 
the town of Newberry, at the place now (1802) ov/ned and 
occupied l)y tho Nobles family. Hii was a mem])f!r of thc^ infan- 
try voluDteor company that went from Ni wherry to Florid ;i in 
183G during the Seminole W;ir for three months. Pf.' has 
one son, llev. J. S. Elmore, \\]v< is also a Lntlicrau pr. .i-.-her 
now living and laborin'r in Geor^ ia. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



Mount Zion Church having been organized under the pas- 
toral care of Kev. J. Moser, their church edifice was dedicated 
on the fifth Sunday in August, 1840. 

Bethlehem Church, incorporated in 1788, was dedicated iu 
1810 by Revs. G. Dreher and Miller, and has been served by 
Revs. Ranch, Schwartz, Hope, Berly, G. Haltiwanger, Jr., 
J. B. Anthony and T. S. Boinest — by the latter for many 
years. The remains of Boinest and Schwartz lie buried in 
the graveyard of this church. Since Mr. Boinest's death the 
church has been served by Rev. G. W. Holland, Rev. S. S. 
Rabn, Rev. S. T. Hallman and at present by Rev. J. H. Wyse. 

The congregation at Luther Chapel, Newberry, was oi-gan- 
ized in 1853 by Rev. T. S. Boinest, and through his labors 
money was raised and a house of worship was built in 1854 
and dedicated in December of the same year. Mr. Boinest 
was the first pastor. After his resignation, which he was 
compelled to make, having so many churches under his 
care, Rev. William Berly became the pastor and served two 
years, 1856-58. Revs. Theophilus Stork, D. D., and J. A. 
Brown, D. D., were joint-pastors* in 1858-60. Rev. J. P. 
Smeltzer, D. D., took charge as pastor in 1861 and served in 
connection with the Presidency of Newberry College until 1868, 
when he removed with the college to Walhalla. Rev. Jacob 
Hawkins, D. D., supplied the congregation with preaching in 
1869. The church was struck by lightning in 1869, demolish- 
ing the tall steeple. Rev. H. S. Wingard was pastor in 1870-71, 
A call was then given to the Rev. H. W. Kuhns, D. D., of 
Ordaha. He took charge in 1872 and served nearly seven years. 
Since his resignation in 1878 the church has had as pastors Rev. 
S. P. Hughes, Rev. J. Steck, D. D., Rev. A. B. McMackin, 
deceased, and Rev. W. C. Schaeffer. 

Mount Pilgrim and Mount Tabor, in Pastorate No. 11, wero 
built in the year 1880; and Ridge Road, in the same pas- 
torate, was built in 1888. 

St. Luke's was organized ia 1S28 or 1829, by Rev. Schwartz, 
then on a missionary tour. In 1830 or 1831, the first church 
building was erected, with Mr. Schwartz as pastor. Mr. 

*In connection with their duties respectively as President and Professor 
in Newberry College. Dr. Brown, however, perved some time after Dr. 
Stork returned to Pennsylvania. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRT. 071 

Schwartz did not live long. He was succeeded by Mr. Berly, 
who was pastor for many years. Then followed Kev. J. Moser. 
About 1845 the old house was taken down and a new one, 
which still stands, was built in its place; served by Rev. J. C. 
Hope for a short time; then by Rev. T. S. Boinest for nearly 
eighteen years, assisted by Rev. Smithdeal occasionally; then 
by Revs. Jacob Hawkins, D, D., H. S. \Yingard, J. D. Bowles 
and M. J. Epting. 

Colony was organized in 1S45; house built in 1840; dedi- 
cated by Revs. Hope and Berly. First pastor was Mr. Berly, 
since served by Margart, Bailey, Sligh, Jacob Hawkins, H. S. 
Wingard, J. D. Bowles and G. W. Holland. Colony was 
rebuilt in 1884. 

Newville at Prosperity was organized in 1859, and church 
Ijuilt same year and dedicated by Rev. Berly. Rev. Smithdeal 
lirst served them. Revs. J. P. Smeltzer, W. Eichelberger and 
J. A. Sligh officiated occasionally, (Rev. J. A. Sligh was 
regular pastor for two years,) also H. S. Wingard while a 
student in the Seminary. Jacob Hawkins was pastor in 1871 
for one year. He removed to Virginia and Rev. H. S. Win- 
gard was invited and took charge. In 1874 this church was 
separated from Pastorate No. 12 and made a separate and 
distinct charge with H. S. Wingard as pastor. Mr. Wingard 
was pastor in 1875, but has since removed to Georgia and is 
now, 1892, in the old Salzburger colony of Ebenezer near 
Savannah. Newville was rebuilt as Grace Church in 1878.. 
It has since been served by Revs. J. E. Bushnell, C. A.. 
Marks and T. O. Keister. 

Beth Eden congregation was organized in 1843. House of 
worship was built the same year and dedicated by the Revs. 
Brown, Hope and Aull. Membership at first not more than 
20; now over 100. The first pastor was Rev. Brown. The 
church has been served since by Revs. Berly, Bolles, Fink, 
Anthony, Sheppard, Hungerpeler,* Moser, Hawkins, Schreck- 
hise, Shirey, Bedenbaugh. Now, 1892, supplied by Prof. W. 
K. Sligh. 

'This was Hungerpeler's only charge, his first and last. While pastor 
here he died in 1855 or 1856, and while here he was mainly inst rumental 
in inducing three of his members to st idy for the ministry: Bevs. J. D 
Bowles, J. T. Bowles, (deceased,) and J. A. Sligh. 



i)12 ANNALS Cr NEW LEERY. 

St. Matthew's, neai- Ashford's Ferry on Broad River, was 
organized in 1827 or 1829 by Eev. J. D. Sheck, while on a 
missionary tour, and he became the first pastor. He has been 
succeeded by E,evs. Moser, Hope, Sheppard, Berly, Anthony, 
Boinest, Hngerpeler, Hawkins, Bedenbaugh, Shirey, Julian, 
Wyse. Membership was very small at first, but has increased to 
90 or 100. About nine miles distant once stood Zion's Church, 
which was burnt down and never rebuilt. Most of the mem- 
bers united with St. Matthew's. St. Matthew's was destroyed 
by the tornado of 1884 and rebuilt and rededicated in ISSi"). 
Liberty Hill was erected in 1840, and dedicated in 1841 by 
Hevs. Hope, P. A. Strobel and Aull. The membership is 
small. The church has been supplied by Revs. Mos"r, Hope, 
Aull, Brown, D. J. Dreher, Anthony, Hungerpeler, Hawkins, 
Bailey, Schreckhise, J. D. Shirey. In 18(59 a new building 
was erected and dedicated. In 1890 this church was removed 
to Jalapa and rebuilt. It was dedicated the same year by 
Rev. W. C. Schaeffer, pastor of Luther Chapel, Newberry. 

St. Philip's was built and dedicated in 1887 or 1888 through 
the efforts of Rev. H. S. Wingard, who was its first pastor. 
It has since been served by Revs. Hallman and Wyse. 

The history of St. Paul's, the old Mother Church, evidently 
the oldest Lutheran congregation in the county, has not been 
well preserved. The name does not appear among the Luth- 
eran Churches of the State incorporated by an Act of the 
Legislature in 1778. But from the fact that Rev. Frederick 
Joseph Wallern was for many years pastor of this congrega- 
tion and became a member of the Corpus Evangelicum in 
January, 1789, while he was a pastor in Newberry County, 
and from the testimony of some of the oldest persons residing 
in the community, it is evident that this old congregation had 
an existence prior to 1787. 

The building now used for worship by this congregation 
was built and dedicated in 1830, the services on the occasion 
being conducted by Revs. Moser, Ranch and Schwartz. The 
congregation previous to this had two church buildings, the 
first one was a log house which stood about 150 yards from 
the present building. 

How long Pastor Wallern served the congi-egation is not 
known, but he owned a plantation upon which he lived which 



ANNALS OF NEWEEKRY. 078 

fs about one and a half miles from the church, and within a 
few hundred yards of his then residence, where his remains 
now rest, a marble slab standing at the head of his grave. He 
died in 181(3. Since his death the congregation has been 
served by the following pastors: Revs. Metts, Herscher, 
Ranch, Anthony, Berly, Stingley, Margart, Blackwelder and 
S'i^h. The latter is now the pastor. 

As early as 1845, when Colony congregation was organized, 
the old congregation of St. Paul's began her work of coloniza- 
tion, giving off to this congregation the principal part of her 
membership at its organization. St. Luke's also contributed 
in membership in building up this I'ttle coloin". 

Mt. Tabor, near Little Mountain, now numbering about 150 
members, is also a colony from St. Paul's. Tt.e new congre- 
gation (Mt. Tabor) was organized and the church built through 
the efforts of its present pastor, Rev. J. A. Sligh. 

Mt. Pilgrim, near by, brought into existence by the labors 
of Rev. J. D. Bowles, recs^ived at its organization a number 
of members from St. Paul's. Both of 1he-;e clmrclies were 
dedicated in 1880. 

The organization of Bachman Chapel was eifocted through 
the efforts of Rev. J. A. Sligh, the membership coming from 
St. Paul's and Colooy, principally from St. Paul's. 

Mt. Olivet was dedicated in 1891, and was built through 
the efforts of Revs. Marks, Epting, Bowers and Sligh. 

Mt. Tabor and St. Paul's, the daughter and mother, consti- 
tute a pastorate. Mt. Pilgrim's first pastor was the Rev. 
J. D. Bowles, and has since his removal, been served by 
Revs. Bushnell, Marks, Epting and Julian. Bachman Chapel 
was cax-ed for by Revs. Sligh and J. D. Shealy and Prof. 
W. K. Sligh until arrangements could be made to secure a 
regular pastor. Mt. Pilgrim, Bachman Chapel, Mt. Olivet, 
and Macedonia in Lexington County constitute a pastorate. 

Notwithstanding there has been a heavy drain made on St. 
Paul's congregation in giving off her membership to other 
organizations, she is still strong and healthy and now num- 
bers about 250 members. From this old congregation the 
following persons have entered the Lutheran ministry: Revs. 
Herman Aull, (deceased), Wm. Bei-ly, (deceased.) G. A. Hough, 
J. E. Berly, (deceased), S. T. Riser, (deceased), M. J. Epting 

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074 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

and H. P. Counts. Kev. M. M. Kinard was also brought up 
in this church, but had moved his membership to Grace 
Church, Prosperit}^, before entering the ministry. Prof. 
W. K. Sligh and Robtert E. Livingston, both of whom it 
is expected will in a short time bo ordained and set apart 
to the work of the ministry, were brought up in this church, 
the former, however, of whom is now a member of Mt. Tabor 
Church. It might be added here to the credit of this church 
that from her many students have entered Newberry College, 
among whom are some of her best educated and mobt useful 
graduates. 

Of Rev. J. A. Sligh I must add that he has been pastor of 
the same congregation, St. Paul's, — it is his first charge, — for 
twenty-seven years. That he also has been a member of the 
Legislature, of which body he was a working and a useful 
member, taking an active part in all the business. He is now 
an energetic, useful public man, of sterling integrity and 
loved by his people. 

Associate Reformed Presbyterian. 

From the years 1763 to 1775 the elements of Cannon's 
Creek and King's Creek Churches, from which grew Pros- 
perity and Head Spring, came from County Antrim, Ire- 
land, and settled in the fertile region between Enoree 
and the Dutch Fork, centreing near the creeks from 
which the churches took their names. In the year 1767 a por- 
tion of Rev. John Renwick's congregation came from Ireland 
and settled in Newberry County. In 1770, a larger portion, 
with their pastor, came over and settled near the others; and 
in 1772 there came a third colony. We thus see that the 
first Associate Reformed preacher and pastor of the churches 
in Newberry was the Rev. John Renwick, born in Ireland of 
Scottish ancestry. His son. Rev. John Renwick, Avas born at 
sea on the passage over, December 81st, 1770. The Lord's 
Supper was first administered to these Christians in Newberry, 
in Patrick Carmichael's barn, near what is now known as 
Boyd's Crossing between Newberry and Prosperity. This Rev. 
John Renwick is believed to have been a descendant of the 
family of Rev. James Renwick, the last martyr of Scotland, 
who suffered February 18th, 1088. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 675 

Rev. James Renwick preached at Cannon's Creek and King's 
Creek Churches, which were founded at the same time, in 1772. 
He died August 'H)ih, 1775. After his death there was little 
preaching, owing to the troublous times, until the year 1790. 
Iq that year, or the year before, the Revs. David Bothwell 
and James Rogers arrived, and they were both present at 
Cedar Springs, February 24:th, 1790, at the organization of 
the Presbytery of the Carolinas. There were also present at 
that time Revs. Thomas Clark, Peter McMullen and John 
Boyce, ministers, with James McBryde and \\illiam Dunlap, 
elders. 

Mr. Rogers became pastor of Cannon's and King's Creek 
Churches on the 23d of February, 1791, and served in that 
capacity for twenty-four or twenty-five years; for though the 
pastoral relation had been formally dissolved in 1801, yet 
they having no settled pastor, he continued to serve them, in 
so far as he was able, until the year 181-t. 

In 1802 Prosperity Church was built and the congregation 
organized, with Abram Carmichael and Abram Young, elders. 

Rev. John Renwick, son of the first pastor, and who, as 
has been already mentioned, was born at sea, December 31st, 
1770, was licensed to preach January 1st, 1807 — missionated two 
and a half years and settled at Gilder's Creek — was five years 
pastor, and continued to preach there and elsewhere as long 
as he was fible, until he was superannuated a few years before 
his death, which occurred about the close of the year 1830. 

In 1814 Rev. Joseph Lowry received a call from the New- 
berry Chui'ches, but failing to secure his services they made 
further efforts and succeeded in obtaining the services of that 
great and good man, Rev. Charles Strong. He was installed 
pastor of Cannon's Creek, King's Creek and Prosperity in 
1810, a position which he held for eight years, doing good, 
and faithfully executing his Master's work. Under his admin- 
istration assisted by his zealous elders, the churches grew and 
prospered. The names of some of the elders were, John Cald- 
well and Capt. Brice at Cannon's Creek; John Dngan, at least, 
at King's Creek, and Messrs. Carmichael and Young at Pros- 
perity; and also James J. Sloan, Robert Drennon and Samuel 
McQuerns at Cannon's Creek, and Capt. James Spence and 
James Wilson at King's Creek; Robert Brown at Prosperity. 



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Other y^ood men, j)rivate members of the churches helped 
greatly in the good work, among whom may be mentioned, 
Flemings, Fairs, Reids, Caldwells, McConnells, Youngs, Thomp- 
sons, Spences, Eulows, Neels, Hunters, Neeleys, Calmes, Mar- 
tins, Peasters, Johnstones, Chapmans, from which family I 
think my old friend Richard C. Chapman sprang, and many 
others. The pastoral relationship l^etween Mr. Strong and 
Lis churches was closed by his death, which took place July , 
20, 18'24. 

About this time a commodious church building was erected 
at Head Spring and on the lirst Sabbath after the death of 
Mr. Strong the first sermon was preached in tliis house by 
Rev. William Blackstocks. The organization was effected soon 
after, James J. Sloan and Capt. James Chalm(M-s, elders. 

Rev. Samuel P. Pressly, of whom it has been said that he 
never had a superior in the Presbytery, became pastor of the 
four united congregations of Newberry in 1S2() or 1827. He 
made his home at the village of Newberry, was Principal of 
the Academy at that place and preached regularly in his 
several churches for nearly eight years. Being a man of 
popular manners, line address and an able preacher, large 
congregations waited on his ministry and very many were 
added to the church. i\[r. Pressly's ministry was highly suc- 
cessful and the churches fully maintained their high position 
and influence among the sister churches of the land. But 
more liberal measures being advocated and sometimes practiced 
by Mr. Pressly, occasioning earnest and sometimes heated dis- 
cussions in the sessions and among the members, the churches 
were destined to receive a severe shock in the ri>moval of INfr. 
Pressly and the consequences which ensued. A wider Held of 
usefulness having opened up before the young and talented 
pastor on his election to a professorship in the Franklin 
University, Athens, (xeorgia, at a meeting of Presbytery lield 
at Long Cane, March 28th, 1S;3+. Mr. Pressly asked and 
obtained a dismission to connect himself with a sister denomi- 
nation, leaving his congregations vacant and somewhat torn and 
distracted with internal dissensions. While the eldershi}) and 
the great majority of the membership adhered to their former 
faith and practice, yet some good, prominent and influential 
men followed the example of their p.astor. Among these may 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. (h7 

be mentioned Chancellor Johnstone, Dr. Glenn, Esquires Keller, 
David Cleary, Geor^^e Boozer, Dr. Alexander Chambers, the 
Footes and others with their families, through whoso instru- 
mentality and influence sprung Aveleigh' Church, now the 
Presbyterian Church of Newberry, and Smyrna above Bush 
Kiver; Gilder's Creek seemed also to be revived, and subse- 
<iueritly Mount Bethel was called into being. Hence those 
churches of Cannon's Creek, King's Creek, Prosperity and 
Head Spring may be regarded, in a great measure, as the 
parent of all the Presbyterianis;n now known in Newberry. 

The Presbytery met for four successive years towards the 
close of Mr. Pressly's pastorate in one of the Newberry 
churches. At Head Spring, November ."Jth, 1S2U; at Pros- 
perity, Noveruber ^5 J, IS'JO; at Cannon's Creek, November 
loth, 18:}!; at lyng's Creek, November 8th, 1832. Rev. 
Jonathan Galloway succeeded Mr. Pressly as pastor of these 
churches and was installed by Presbytery at Head Spring, 
April 10th, 18-50, pastor of these united congregation.s, having 
l)oen found sound in doctrine and consistent in j^ractice. 
After some years the people of his charge began to desire 
more preaching and so by mutual consent and arrangement 
llev. J. O. Lindsay preached one year, 1848, at Cannon's 
Creek and King's Creek Churches. The next year King's 
Creek was supplied one third of the time by Kev. D. F. Had- 
don, and two yeai's subsequently by Rev. A. Ransom. In the 
meantirijo Elder James Wilson having ceased to act in the 
capacity of elder, Patrick Martin was added to the eldership 
at King's Creek — Capt. Speoco still surviving to discharge 
tlie duties of the office which he had long held. 

An Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church was organized 
in the town of Newberry in the year 1850. Dr. Thomas W. 
Thompson gave the lot, and the friends of the causes gener- 
ally assisted in erecting a very neat and substantial edifice. 
Dr. Wm. McMorries and Dr. Thomas W. Thompson were 
ordained elders, to whom Prof. Wm. Hood was subsequently 
added. This church, known as the Thompson Street Church, 
united with King's Creek in calling Rev. H. L. Murphy. Ho 
accepted the call and was duly installed as paster at New- 
berry in 185o. Here he labored with great acceptance until 
the close of the war in 1805. Becoming di.scouraged after 



C78 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

the war on nccount of tho doath and removal of some good 
inon, Capt. Sponco, Patrick Martin and Dr. Thompson — Dr. 
McMorries moved to tho country — Mr. Murphy surrendered 
his charge and removed to West Tennessee. 

Mr. Galloway continued his labors at Cannon's Creek, Pros- 
perity and Head Spring until October, 1855, when through 
failing health he was compelled to demit his charge. From 
this time to November 1st, 1858, a period of three years, the 
word was preached and ordinances administered by different 
members of Presbytery, when Rev. J. C. Boyd was installed 
as pastor. He had been licensed by the First Presbytery 
September 8th, 1857, and was pastor of Prosperity, Cannon's 
Creek and Head Spring Churches until 1889. 

Rev. E. P. McClintock began to preach regularly at Thomi)- 
son Street and King's Creek Churches in May, 1870, and was 
installed pastor in May, 1871. That pastorate continued until 
1883. At that time Mr. McClintock removed to the town of 
Newberry and became pastor of Thompson Street Church ex- 
clusively, which mutually pleasant relation continues to this 
day. The officers now are: J. N. Martin, J. C. Wilson, M. A. 
Carlisle, Geo. S. Mower, ruling elders; James F. Todd, E. C. 
Jones, Foster N. Martin, S. B. Jones, deacons. 

In September, 1884, Rev. W\ W. McMorries was installed 
pastor of King's Creek and Cannon's Creek Churches, and he 
is still serving these two churches witli a full cor])s of active 
officers. 

To sum up — King's Creek and Cannon's Creek were founded 
in 1772; Prosperity in 180'J; Head S[)ring in 1824; Thomp- 
son Street Church at Newberry in 1850. 

The following sketch of the church at Prosperity is con- 
densed from one written by Mr. A. E. P. Bedenbaugh: 

The first church was built in 1802 by James Young and 
others. The second one about twenty-five years later. For 
eighty-seven years there has been preaching and the ministra- 
jtion of the ordinances at that place. Tho church was organ- 
zed by Rev. James Rogers in 1802, and he became pastor and 
served for several years James Young, Samuel McQuerns and 
Robert Drennon were first elders. Charles Strong became 
pastor in ISIP)— died in August, 1824. The elders at that 
time were Abram Young, Abram Carmichael and Robert 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



07'. > 



Young. Robert Brown was born in Ireland, May 2()th, 1702: 
came to America and was an elder in King's Creek Cliurch; mar- 
ried Nancy Young, April 8th, 1794; moved within bounds of 
Prosperity Church and became an elder there. After Mr. 
Strong's death. Rev. S. P. Pressly became pastor. In 1832 he 
was elected to a professorship in Franklin University at Athens, 
Georgia, and left the church without a pastor. Prosperity 
was then without a pastor until 1835, when Rev. J. Galloway 
was called — was installed in I83f), and served for twenty 
years. The cliurch grew rapidly under the ministry of Strong, 
Pressly and the first part of Mr. Galloway's ministry, but to- 
wards the latter part it declined somewhat. Rev. J. C. Boyd 
preached his first sermon at Prosperity on the fourth Sabbatli 
of February, 1858. He was ordained as a minister at Head 
Spring the first Sabbath in November, 1858, and began as 
pastor of Prosperity, Head Spring and Cannon Creek Churches, 
and was pastor of Prosperity all the time to 1880. During 
his pastorship Abram Moore, James Fair, Robert Carmichael, 
George Brown, Dr. Thompson Young, Col. William Lester, 
John 13. Fellers, J. T. P. Crosson, H. C. Moseley, J. H. 
Hunter and C. F. Boyd have been elders, — Fair, Brown, Les- 
ter and Moore are dead. Capt. Matthew Hall, Dr. A. A. 
Kibler and A. P. Dominick were made deacons in 1867. 
Matthew Hall has passed away — gone to his reward. Mr. 
Boyd was pastor thirty one years. Only two survive of the 
members of the church, who were there when he took charge, 
Abram Moore's daughter Esther and Dr. Thompson Young. 

Presbyterian. 

On the 8th of August, 1800, Josiah P. Smith, of Mount 
Bethel Academy, which was in the neighborhood of Indian 
Creek and Gilder's Creek, where there had always been a 
considerable Presbyterian population since the lirst settlement, 
applied to the Second Presbytery for supplies for that place. 
The application was granted, and Revs. John B. Kennedy, 
Hugh Dickinson and James Gilliland were appointed to preach 
there. But the supposition is that the arrangement was not 
at all permanent. 

The church at Indian Creek at the beginning of the cen- 
tury was still the scene of Robert McClintock's labors, as it 



OSO ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

had been for a good many years. But it does not appear oa 
the minutes of the Second Presbytery, nor was Mr. McClio- 
tock a member of that body. His baptismal register contains 
the names of 2,0S0 persons baptized by him. One hundred 
and fifty-nine of these were baptized between the 1st of Janu- 
ary, 1800, and June 5th, 1808. The names of the parents 
are given and a large share of these were persons living in 
this portion of Newberry District. He baptized two of his 
own children, John and Ro]:)ert, on the 28d of April, 1803. 
He baptized only two others afterwards, as he died somp 
time during the year 180;]. 

Grassy Spring, in the neighborhood where Maybinton now is, 
was under the charge of liev. Wm. Williamson until 1802, who 
had preached to it one-fourth of his time, but now withdrew 
from it as pastor. From this time it was supplied by Messr.s. 
Williamson, Montgomery and Rev. John B. Kennedy until 
August 8th, ISOC), when David Gray was oi'dained and be- 
came its pastor, preaching there one-fourth of his time, giving 
to other churches in Union and Laurens the balance of his 
time. This arrangement continued until 1810. 

A portion of Little River congregation was in Newberry 
and a portion in Laurens, Rev. John B. Kennedy, pastor, 
giving part of his time to Duncan's Creek in Laurens, — from 
1800 to 1810,— continued till 1820. 

Rev. Daniel Gray continued as pastor of Grassy Spring 
until the 2nd of April, 1811, when he was dismissed from 
this portion of his charge on account of ill health. He died 
some time between the April and November meeting of Pres- 
bytery in 1810. After being supplied for some time during 
1811 and 1812 as a vacant church, by Revs. John B. Ken- 
nedy, Daniel Gray and Hugh Dickson, Grassy Spring ceased 
to exist and disappeared from the records of the Presbytery. 

Indian Creek had applied to the original Presbytery of 
South Carolina for supplies as early as October 11th, 1786, 
and Francis Cummins was appointed to supply it. In 1787 
Rev. Thomas Hr McCaule and Francis Cummins — again in 
1789. It was reported among the vacancies unable to siip- 
port a pastor in 1799, when the Presbytery was divided into 
the First and Second Presbyteries ; and it no longer appears 
on the minutes. As it had been served by Rev. Robert Mc- 



AXNALS OF NEWBERRY. 081 

Cliiitock, and ho was a member of the old Scotch Presbytery 
of Charleston, it may have been regarded as disconnected 
fi'om this Presbytery and so was no longer mentioned in the 
records. Gilder's Creek is its y)robal)le successor. We have 
seen in the sketch of the Associate KefornKul Church that Kev. 
John Renwick once preached in the church now known as 
Oilder's Creek. The original site of this church was quite^ 
near the stream s-o called, and at some distance from Indian 
Creek. Tii point of fact, about half a mile from Gilder's 
Creek and a mile and a half from Indian Creek. The build- 
ing has been moved to a location ii[)oa Indian Creek where- 
it now is. Gilder's Creek and Little River in Laurens sent a 
contri1)ution by Rov. John 13. Kennedy of live dollars to Pres- 
liytery in 1822; and again, in connection with Little River 
and Rocky Spring, the same amount. The people now living 
in that vicinity have no recollection of any one jireaching 
there earlier than 1820, find the })ri'ac]ier then was John B. 
Kennedy. 

With the assistance of Mr. Zaccheus Wright, father of Robt. 
II. Wright of the town of Newberry, a Sunday-school was 
organized at this church ici 1821. This was then something 
new and was much talked of in the community. And when 
t)'o loaders went to Columbia to buy books the people of 
Columbia did not know what was meant by a Sunday-school. 
Not all the people of Columbia, however, were so ignorant of 
Sunday-schools, for a Sunday-school Union, embracing the 
several denominations, and a' num1:)er of schools dated back 
to 1820. 

In 1825 the membership of Gilder's Creek numbered sixty- 
seven; in 182G there wei'e seventy communicants; in 1827 no 
report; in 1828 under pastoral care with seventy-five mem- 
bers. This church was originally in connection with the Asso- 
ciate Reformed, but how it came to change connection is not 
clearly known. It may have been through the change of 
pastor from Mr. Renwick to Mr. Kennedy. Mr. Kennedy 
was i^astor until 1839 — during that year the church had no 
pastor — and several succeeding years. In the fall of 184^ 
Rev. E. F. Hyde was called to this church, and to Aveleigh 
and Smyi-na. Mr. Hyde continued pastor until the summer 
of 1848. The three churches were then left vacant until 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 



October, 1849, when a call was given to \Vm. B. Telford, a 
young licentiate. He was ordained and installed on the 8th 
of Jnne, I80O. The elders in 1845 were William Mars, Wm. 
Beard and Hiram Glasgow. The membership in 1840 was 
eighteen; in 1845, seventeen; in 1878, eighteen. The Pres- 
bytery of South Carolina met in this church on the 25th of 
April, 1845. Rev. E. F. Hyde was at that time ordained to 
to the ministry. 

Smyrna Church is located five and a half miles west of 
Newberry, directly on the high road leading from Newberry 
to old Cambridge or Ninety-Six. It was organized Sep- 
tember 25th, 1838, by the Revs. R C. Ketchum and M. D 
Fraser, with seventeen members, George Boozer, Esq., and 
David Clary were elected and ordained to the eldership. The 
church was supplied in part by Revs. R. C. Ketchum, Geo. 
Boggs and P. H. Folker, with perhaps a few sermons from 
others, until the year 1840. In that year the Rev. John Mc- 
Kittrick received a call from the churches of Aveleigh and 
Smyrna during the session of Presbytery. At an adjourned 
meeting of Presbytery held at Smyrna November 11th, 1840, 
his ordination and installation took place, and he took his 
seat as a member of Presbytery. In 1845 Rev. E. F. Hyde 
was stated supply of Smyrna in connection with Aveleigh and 
Gilder's Creek. The Rev. Robert McLees became pastor for 
half his time in 1856 and so continued vintil his death. Dur- 
ing the war and after, until 1872, this church was supplied 
by different ministers. John and James Senn and David 
Boozer became elders after those already mentioned. George 
Boozer, Esq., was always regarded as the leading man, as 
well as ruling elder in the church. His influence was great, 
both in the church and out of it. He was the father of Rev. 
J. I. Boozer, who died in Arkansas before the war, and four 
of his sons were elders in four different churches. One of 
his daughters married the first pastor the church ever had. 

'•The following facts," says Dr. Howe in his history of the 
Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, "with reference to the 
first movements toward the organization of a Presbyterian 
Church at Newberry I have obtained from Chancellor Job 
Johnstone. I simply make a quotation from a letter which I 
received from him on this subject: 'My former wife informed 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 683 

me that there was formerly as far back, perhaps, as 1822, a 
Presbyterian Church organized in this village. I remember 
there was a meeting of Presbytery held about that time in 
the old Male Academy, then taught by the Rev. Joseph Y. 
Alexander, and that he received ordination at its hands. And 
I find by a memorial in my family Bible that he baptized 
my son Silas, at my wife's request, on the 18th of January, 
1822, at my house, being the first baptism by that minister. 
Yet so stupid was I that I never for a moment suspected, until 
years afterwards, that there ever had been any Presbyterian 
organization at Newberry. Mrs. Johnstone, when she gave 
the information, stated that her sister, Mrs. Harrington, and 
her sister-in-law, Mrs. Dr. Johnstone, had all been members, 
and that Mr. Thomas Boyd, of Bush River, had been an 
elder. All that I noticed was, that there was very regular 
preaching in the Court House while Mr. Alexander taught 
our school, and that there was less of shooting and kite flying 
in the streets on Sabbaths than formerly. On the removal of 
that excellent man, Mr. Alexander, to Georgia, I suppose the 
church fell through, for on the 15th of July, 1882, I find 
that my wife had three of our children baptized at Head 
Spring (Seceder) Church, by the late Samuel P. Pressly, 
subsequently a professor in Athens College, Georgia, but at 
that time pastor of Cannon's Creek, Prosperity, Indian Creek 
and Head Spring Churches. By the three children being 
baptized at the same time, I suppose that was the day she 
herself joined Mr. Pressly's church. In 1833 or '3-4 Mr. 
Pressly went to Georgia, by which his churches were for a 
time left vacant. He was a very liberal man, and under his 
administration his churches relaxed the rigor of close com- 
munion. All the Presbyterians in the neighborhood united 
as members with him, and in the course of the few 
years he was minister here, his churches had more than 
doubled the number of their communicant-;. On the 14th 
of September, 1834, I united with the church at Can- 
non's Creek, at a communion administered by the Rev. Mr. 
Boyce, of Fairfield, acting as a temporary supply. I stated 
at the time that on the first convenient opportunity I should 
unite with the Presbyterian Church, and that I should exer- 
cise the privilege of open communion. I united on this con- 



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dition, expressed at the time, for after Mr. Pressly's removal, 
neither I nor the other Presbyterians in his late churches 
were pleased with the rigor we anticipated in them. On the 
30th of November, 1884, Mr. Pressly, on a farewell visit to 
his churches, administered the sacrpment of the Lord'R Supper 
at Head Spring. I remember that there was an eclipse of the 
sun during the communion. Mr. P. spent a night at my 
house during the meeting. He was then about to transfer 
his connection to the Presbyterian Church, and we had a con- 
versation about the prospects of a Presbyteriau Church here. 
On Monday, after the communion at Head Spring, being 
December 1st, 1834, and saleday, I drew a subscription paper 
for the building of the church, subsequently called Aveleigh. 
The necessary amount was soon subscribed. Mr. Kobert Boyce 
conveyed five acres of land as a lot for the church to be 
built on, at Hunt's Cross Roads, one mile and a half from 
the village of Newberry. On the advice of those interested, 
I wrote to Dr. Moses Waddell, Rev. S. B. Lowers and Rev. 
John Kennedy, of the South Carolina Presbytery, and to Rev. 
Robert B. Campbell, of Harmony Presbytery, to preach for 
us as they could, and, also, to Mr. Gladney, then of Colum- 
bia, a licentiate. They all generously aided us.'" 

A congregation was organized May 30th, 1835, by Rev. 
Moses Waddell and Rev. S. B. Lewers and entered into a 
congregational covenant as members of the Presbyterian 
Church, believing that the Confession of Faith of that Church 
conformed most nearly to the system of faith and order as 
taught in the Gospel. Isaac Keller and Alexander Chambers 
were first elders. 

The church was occasionally supjilied by Rev. Moses AVad- 
dell, D. D., Rev. Isaac Waddell and Rev. S. B. Lewers until 
the meeting of Presbytery in March, 1830, when application 
was made for supplies. Supplies were granted two or three 
times each year and the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was 
administered at each meeting. At that time, that is in 1838, 
the church numbered forty-four communicants. In March, 
1839, two more ruling elders were ordained, John Johnson 
and G. W. Glenn. In Januarj^, 1838, Rev. R. C. Ketchum 
was ordained and installed by Rev. Isaac Waddell and Rev. 
S. B. Lewer.s. But in the fall of 1839 the pastoral relation 



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between this church and Mr. Ketchum was dissolved, which 
was a pity, as the church had prospered under his ministra- 
tion. But Smyrna Church was organized in September, 1838, 
which no doubt weakened Aveleigh somewhat, as that church 
was at first composed of members from Aveleigh. 

The next pastor was Rev. John McKittrick, for about three 
year.s, wben the church was again vacant until the fall of 
1845 when, in conjunction with Smyrna and Gilders Creek, 
the services of Rev. E. F. Hyde, who had already been sup- 
plying them, were secured. Mr. Hyde was in charge till the 
summer of 1848, when the three were again left vacant with 
only occasional supplies till 1849, when Mr. Telford was 
called. Rev. W. B. Telford was installed June 8th, 1850. 

Meantime the church had dwindled away until there were 
only about twelve members, and very few persons besides the 
members attended preaching. The fact is the church was 
neither a town church nor a country church. The country 
people regarded it as a town church and would not go to it, 
and being a mile and a half from town it was too far for 
many of the town folks to attend. So after due considera- 
tion it was thought best to erect a new church edifice in the 
town, and in due season this end was accomplished. The old 
house and lot were sold and a new house was erected on a 
lot given by Mr. E. Y. McMorries for that purpose. The 
new house was dedicated on the 17th day of December, 185*2. 
After its removal to town some of the country members trans- 
ferred their membership to Gilder's Creek and Mount Bethel. 
The church then numbered only about twenty members.' The 
church immediately began to prosper and at almost every 
communion there were some additions. There were but three 
ruling elders in this chi.irch. Chancellor Job Johnstone in the 
town and Dr. G. W. Glenn and Mr. Isaac Keller in the coun- 
try. The name of the church was not changed. 

For the foregoing sketch of the Presbyterian churches in 
the County of Newberry I am indebted to the History of the 
Presbyterian Church in South Carolina by Rev. George Howe, 
D. D. 

The pastors who have since served Aveleigh Chiirch a "1 the 
dates of their installation art> as followr: Rov. A. D. Mont- 
gomery, June 29, 1850; Rev. E. H. Buist, June 0, 1802; Rev. 



686 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

R. A. Mickle, November 30, 1866; Rev. K A. Fair, October, 
1874, being the pastor for eleven years. Rev. J. S. Cozby, 
D. D., the present pastor, entered upon the work on the 15th 
of October, 1886. The church edifice has been enlarged and 
modernized during 1892 at a cost of $3,500. 

Baptist. 

The Baptist Church is the oldest in the town of Newberry, 
having been organized in the year 1831; and, iQ the county 
at large, if it does not take precedence of all others in point 
of age, yet it is nearly as old as the oldest, running up to 
over one hundred years. But it matters not which is the 
oldest, the Baptist Church has always shown an aggressive 
spirit against all the powers of evil in every form and shape. 
As in the case of the other denominations I have tried to 
find a history of the Baptist Church in this State, or in the 
county; but I have not succeeded, as it seems there is no 
such book or pamphlet to be had. I have found a history of 
the Church at Newberry by Rev. Luther Broaddus, but that is 
all. I give a condensation of that history and such other 
facts as I have been able to gather in regard to the others. 

In September, 1831, Revs. N. W. Hodges, J. M. Chiles, Jo- 
siah Furman and John M. Barnes began preaching at a stand 
in a large oak grove, then and afterwards known, I think, as 
the Academy Grove, on the southern outskirts of the village. 
At that time there were only four or five church members in 
the village; but on the 30th of September, the same month 
the preaching began, a church was organized with forty-two 
members. The Presbytery which constituted the church was 
composed of the following ministers: N. AV. Hodges, Jon- 
athan Davis, S. Wcrthington and Daniel Mangum. John S, 
Carwile was first deacon and John M. Barnes first pastor. 
Mr. Barnes was pastor only three months. In December Mr. 
Hodges was called and began his pastorate in January, 1832, 
and continued until the close of 1834. At the end of 1833 
the church numbered 113 members. The first communion 
service was held on the fourth Sunday in May, 1832. At 
that meeting a communication was received from Rev. S. P. 
Pressly proposing inter-communion with other chiirches agree- 
ing in their views of the Lord's Supper, though differing on 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 087 

other points. The proposition was declined. At a meeting in 
July, however, of the same year, the use of their house of 
worship was offered to other evangelical denominations when- 
ever the pulpit was not occupied by the pastor. The house 
of worship was completed early in the year 1832. The church 
and parsonage lots were given by Y. J. Harrington and John 
L. Young and the bell by Hon. Kerr Boyce of Charleston. 

In the year 1835 Daniel Mangum became pastor and was 
assisted by Rev. E. Lindsay. From 1830 to 1850 the church 
was served by Mr. Hodges, Thomas Frean, who was ordained 
in 1837, J. A. Chaplain, Samuel Gibson of Greenville and 
J. G. Landrum and M. C. Barrett of Spartanburg. In Feb- 
ruary, 1850, Rev. J. J. Brantley was called and entered upon 
his pastorate in May of that year and continued as pastor 
until 1866, when he resigned and preached his farewell sermon 
on the 6th of January, 1807. Rev. J. T. Zealy was called 
and entered upon his duties at once. He resigned in Septem- 
ber, 1868, and Dr. Richard Furman was called and entered 
upon the duties of the pastorate the last of that year. But 
his health failed in the spring of 1869, and the church was 
supplied from the Theological Seminary, especially by Dr. 
William Williams, who continued to preach in 1870. Early 
in that year Rev. John Stout, a student in the Seminary, was 
asked to take charge, and did so, but continued his studies ia 
the Seminary until May, 1871, when he removed to Newberry. 
He resigned and left in December, 1873, and was succeeded, 
July 1st, 1874, by Rev. F. W. Eason, and he, on the 1st of 
January, 1878, by Rev. Luther Broaddus, whose removal by 
death in 1885 was mourned as a calamity by the whole com- 
munity, for he was a godly, noble, true, whole-souled man. 
He was succeeded by Rev. C. P. Scott, who served until April 
1st. 1890. Rev. George A. Wright supplied the church in 
the summer of 1890, and regularly became pastor in 1891. 

In 1869 William Hayne Leavell (son of my old friend Jno. 
R. Leavell), then a member of this church, was ordained to 
the work of the ministry. He is now an eloquent and able 
divine of the Presbyterian Church in Mississippi. 

From the very beginning the Newberry Baptist Church has 
always had amongst its members some of the very best of the 
citizens of Newberry; among whom I may mention Menden- 



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ANNALS OF NEV, EEEEY. 



hall, Pratt, Higgins, Carwile, Hunt, Harrington, O'Neall, G. T. 
"Scott, a strong, noble, upright man, and W. T. Wright. But 
I must mention no more: and those whose names I have 
Avritten have all passed away. Those who are now living 
must show by their lives that they are worthy successors of 
those who have gone before. Was there ever a better man 
than Luther Broaddus? 

I believe the church at Bush Eiver is the oldest Bapti-t 
■Church iu the county. 

I give here some extracts from a j^oem, 1,'earing datt> Feb- 
ruary 1st, 184'2, written on a visit to the burying groun 1 of 
this church. The writer is Mr. David Jones of Ohio. I liujx' 
my readers will agree with me that the lines are v^'orthy of 
presentation here: 



Sure 'tis a solemn thing to tread 

Upon that hallowed spot of ground, 
The sacred precincts of the dead 
Where many a little yellow mound 
To ever}' eye each spot discloses, 
Where frail mortality reposes 
In slumber so profound; 
That fancy ne'er affects the brain 
With dreams of pleasure or of pain. 

:;-- * :;; * * 

Here closely dwell the young and old, 

The brave, and those who were afraid, 
And he who toiled and heaped up gold 
Perchance is by a beggar laid; 
And comely youths who once were vain 
And did less favored ones disdain 
Have with them here decayed; 
And learned and ignorant and wise 
Are equal in this monarch's eyes. 

But many graves I here behold 
Not even honored by a stone, 
With letters traced thereon, to unibld 
The name of him or her alone. 
But shapeless stones are there to tell 
How little love the living feel 
For their departed friends unknown. 
As if it was not worth the cost 
To keep their names from being lost. 

Though it recks nothing to the soul 
When it has from the bodj' passed, 
If it should sleep at either pole 
Or to the winds of heaven be cast; 
Vet still humanity will say 
(And should ye not her voice obey?) 
Write o'er the grave at last 
The name, that all who come may know 
Whose dust it is that sleeps below. 

And 3-onder is the grave of one 

Who died while he was in his prime, 
Ah! little thought he that his sun 
Would set within so short a time. 
Buoyant with youthful hopes no doubt 
He had his hopeful plans laid out 



The highest mount to climb, 
But in a most unlocked for hour 
He fell beneath the monarch's power. 

Hard by a lovely maiden sleeps, 

A being wrought of finest^mould, 
Here soft affection often weeps 
AS it has done in days of old: 
And that .she had an angel's face 
An angel's innocence and grace 
Is often, often told. 
But grace and beauty could not save 
The victim from the hungry grave. 



A little infant's buried there. 

The youngest inmate of a tomb. 
Oh death! couldst thou not deign to spare 

That tender plant to bud and bloom? 
j. Why pluck it thus and rob the bed 
Where it was sweetly nourished, 
And soon had shed perfume; 
'Twas well withall, it did not grow 
To feel the bitter tempests blow. 

"I once had life and health like thee 
Who now dost on the surface toil, 
But mortal know that thou like me 
iSIust lay thee down beneath the soil; 
I charge thee then by all that's good 
Tiring not into this dark abode 
A lamp that has no oil; , 

Or everlasting wrath and gloom 
Will surely be thy dreadful doom." 

Enough — this awful voice I've heard, 

'Tis time to hie me now away; 
And oh! may I heed every word 

My conscience speaks within — obey 
The Lord! that I without a fear 
May at his holy bar appear 
At the great judgment day. 
And with the holy choirs sing 
Hosannah to the heavenly King. 

PniLOJi. 
Newberry. S. C, Feb'-uary ist, 1S42. 



The Mount Zion Baptist Church, located on the west prong 
of Beaver Dam, near Silver Street, seven miles west of the 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 089 

town of Newberry, was organized in July, 1832. The offici- 
ating ministers were Revs. Daniel Mangum and X. W. Hodges, 
aided by a number of brethren from Bush River and Cross 
Roads Churches. 

The church was organized by eurolling the names of the 
following twenty-six member^', adopting the Church Covenant 
and ordaining Brother Isaac Kelly as a deacon. Names of 
members: Sarah Ann Davenport, Mary Toland, Matilda Kelly, 
Emily Davidson, Sarah Wright, Elizabeth Hunt, Charlotte! 
Richardson, Isaac Davenpoit, Samuel Davids n. Martha Wal- 
drop, Mary Spear, Jane Stephens, \Yilliam Adam-, John 
Gouldiug, Andrew Andrews, Isaac Kelly, Susan Kel'y, Eliza- 
beth Stewart, Nancy Wright. Sarah Davidson, Lwin la Gallo- 
way, Mary Andrews, Anna Kelly, Elizabeth ^^'aldr ]>, John F. 
Glenn and Edna Glenn. 

Rev. Daniel Mangum, having been chieMy in^truniental in 
forming and organizing Mt. Zion Church, was called to preach 
to them once a month and served them as pastor for eighteen 
years. The next pastor was James F. Peteis m, who e labors 
were eminently blessed. During his pastorate of fiftet n years, 
one hundred and thirty eight members were added to the 
church. Mount Zion grew strong! Well might she contribute 
to his needs in age and to his monument at Red Bank Church 
in Edgefield County. He died June 10th, 1881, ag-ed 85. 

The third pastor was Rev. James K. Mendenhall — com- 
menced 18G5, lasting to 1870, during which time he baptized 
sixty-six. He was an earnest laborer for our Master. In the 
beginning of the year 1871 the church called to ordination 
and to the pastorate, for his entire time, the Rev. A. W. 
Lamar, who was ordained January 15th, 1871, by Rev. W. W. 
Williams and Rev. Thomas H. Pope. After a pastorate of 
one year he was called to act as Secretary and Treasurer of 
the Baptist State Convention of South Carolina. 

In 1872 Rev. T. W. Smith ministered to the church once 
a month, alternated by Rev. Wm. Williams. 

Sixth Pastorate, 1873. — In the spring of this year Mount 
Zion and Bush River Churches united in calling Rev. W. D. 
Rice. He was succeeded in 1878-79 by Rev. James C. Fur- 
man, D. D., of Greenville. 

In 1880 the church called Rev. Wm. B. Elkins indefinitely 
2 W 



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to its pastorate a faithful, oaniost worker, who, on account 
of ill health, resigned after a pastorate of three years. 

In December, LS83, llev. W. J. Langston, who was a student 
at the time in the Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky., 
was called to the pastorate indetinitely, to commence as soon 
as he returned from the Seminary, which wa?> in June, 1884. 
Kov. Luth(»r Broaddus tilled the interim statedly until Eev. 
Langston's return, and he has been pastor since June, 1884, 
to the present time, now 1S9'2. A more zealous and devoted 
]iastor never served the church. 

The church passed through a terrible ordeal in 1888. In 
a little over six months she lost three of her deacons — all — 
viz., J. C. Stewart, J. R. Spearman and G. H. Werts, and 
some of the best female members, which gave her a backset 
from which she has not entirely recovered. But the present 
Board of Deacons are working energetically to revive and 
build up the church. During the year 1892 Mr. James Spear, 
another of the old Board of Deacons, died. The former dea- 
cons have all passed to their reward, except J. S. Floyd, who 
took his letter, and is now living in Walhalla, S. C. The 
present Board of Deacons is comjwsed of Michael Werts, J. R. 
Spearman and J. S. Spearman. 

Enoree Baptist Church is one of the oldest churches in the 
county of Newberry. It was organized in the year 1708. But 
little is known of the early history and struggles of this 
church. The first pastor of whom any knowledge now remains 
was Rev. Jacob King, but there must have been others pre- 
ceding him. In 1822 a new house of worship was built, 
which was dedicated by Elders Thomas Ray, J. Davis and 
Alexander. 

The written record begins with the year 1882; there is nothing 
beyond that. At that time Rev. N. W. Hodges was pastor. 
In 1830 Rev, Keener was i)astor, assisted by Revs. Brooks, 
A. Ray and Abner. In 18in Rev. E. Lindsay was i)astor, 
assisted by Revs. Thomas Frean and G. W. Brooks. In 1838 
Rev. G, W. Brooks became pastor and continued to serve the 
church for ten years. In 1849 Rev. J. A. Hill was jiastor. 
In 1850 Rev. G. W. Brooks Avas again pastor. During the 
years 1851-2 there was no regular pastor. In 1853 Rev. E. 
Lindsay was pastor; in 1854, Rev, G. W. Brooks; in 1855-0, 



ANNALS OK XEWBEIJUY. 091 

I'ev. F. C. Jeter, assisted in "oC) by Rev. Spruoll; in 1857. 
Kev. G. W. Brooks; in 1858-i), Rev. W. H. Martin, assisted 
by Rev. R. R. Vann. In the same year, that is in 1859, the 
|)rosent house oC v^orship was built, and dedicated hy Rev. 
.1. J. Brantley, D. D. 

In 18(H) Rev. W. D. May field was pastor, assisted by Ret* 
Mulinax. In 1801 the church was supplied by Revs. Mayfield 
and G. W. Brooks, but not as ])astor.s. In 1802 Rev. James 
K. Mendenhall was ])astor. During the year 180;j there was 
no record kept, as the Clerk was with the army otherwise 
engaged. 

In 1804 Rev. F. C. Jeter was pastor; in 1805, Rev. James 
K. Mendenhall; in 1800-7, Rev. W. D. Mayfield; in 1868, 
liev. William Young. During 1809 there was no settled 
pastor — Rev. B. F. Corley preached occasionally. In 1870 
Rev. Thomas H. Pope was pastor; and in 1871, Rev. W. H. 
Leavell, assisted by Revs. J. Stout and W. B. Elkins. In 
1872 Rev. W. T. Farrow was pastor; in 1873-4, Rev. F. 0. 
Jeter; in 1875, '70 and '77, Rev. M. E. Broaddus; iu 1878, 
Rev. G. W. Carter; in 1879, Rev. W. A. Gaines; in 1880, '81, 
•82, '83, '84 and '85, Rev. Harrison Fowler; in 1880, Rev. 
.). D. Huggins, and also iu 1887-8; in 1889, Rev. J. S. West, 
and also part of 1890. The latter part of the year 1890, 
through 1891 and part of 1892, Rev. H. T. Smith was pastor. 

At this time, August, 1892, tlie rihurch is without a settled 
I )astor. 

Bethel Baptist Church was organized September 29th, 1840, 
l»y Rev.s. Daniel Mangum and Thomas Frean. This church is 
on the Holley Ferry Road, six and a half miles south of the 
town of Prosperity, iu Newberry County. It was supplied 
with preaching by Rev. D. Mangum and other ministers, as 
missionaries, irregularly, until about the year 1852. At that 
fime Revs. A. W. Asbill and A. P. Norris held a protracted 
meeting and received several members, when the church called 
Rev. A. W. Asbill as pastor, the duties of which office he 
faithfully discharged until the year 1807- sixteen years iu 
succession. 

Since 1807 the church has been supplied by the followiag- 
named ministers as [)astors: Revs. John Barry, W. T. Farrow, 
N. N. Burton, J. M. Norris. L. O'Neall, M. D. Padgett. 



092 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

W. B. Elkins, E. W, Seymour, Joab Edwarcli=, N. 13. William!-, 
J. D. Huggins and H. T. Smith. 

Many other preachers have served this church, from time 
to time, but not as pastors. This church has set apart four 
of her members to exercise their gifts in the ministry. This 
church has elected only three clerks, viz., Mark Waites, who 
served to 1848; D. K. King, to 1874, and A. J. Long, who 
is now Clerk, August, 1892. 

A church, Mount Olive, near by, was an older church, 
constituted as far back as 1792, and was succeeded by 
the Fairview Baptist Church in Newberry County, situated 
one mile from the line between Newberry and Laurens Coun- 
ties and thirteen miles northwest of the town of Newberry, 
and organized the 22nd of August, 1859, Kev. A. C. Stepp 
being Moderator of the Presbytery and W. D. Mayfield 
Secretaiy. The following named brethren constituted the 
Presbytery and ai)proved the Constitution of the Church: 
Elders E. Lindsay, of the Hurricane Church; John Gibbes, 
of New Prospect; John J. Jones, of Mount Paran; C. Felder, 
of FelloAvship; A. C. Stepp, of Rabun's Creek, and W. D. 
Mayfield, of Chestnut Ridge; Deacons, Henry Johnson, ,T. N. 
Meadors, Lewis D. Jones, of Hurricane, Dr. J. K. Gary, 
Geo. S. Cannon, of Bush River; and Laymen, James Copeland. 
John Horton, of Hurricane; Chesley Davis, Geo. Speake, of 
Bush River; Ring. Duckett, J. G. Duckett, Isaac Duckett, of 
Lower Duncan's Creek. 

The following named ministers have served this church as 
pastors: Revs. W. D. Mayfield, A. C. Stepp, Thos. H. Pope, 
Z. T. Leavell, W. B. Elkins, M. E. Broaddus, G. H. Carter, 
W. R. Gains, J. D. Huggins, J. S. West, H. Fowler. 

Prosperity Baptist Church, at the town of Pi'osperity, was 
organized the fourth Sunday in April, 1884. Sermon by Rev. 
Luther Broaddus, of Newberry, S. C. At the time of the or- 
ganization of this church Rev. N. B. Williams was State Mis- 
sionary at Prosperity. One month after the organization the 
church decided to build a house of worship, and as soon 
thereafter as possible a small, but comfortable and substant'al 
"concrete"' building, with baptistery under the rostrum, was 
erected. On the 2nd of January, 1887, Rev. N. B. Williams 
})ade farewell to this church, and on the 20th his successor. 
Rf'v. W. B. Elkins, arrived and took charge. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 098 

In 188S the first meeting held was a "Baptist Union Meet- 
ing,"' which began on Friday before the fifth Sunday in April. 
On the fourth Sunday in May was the first baptism in this 
church. A large congregation, many of whom had never wit- 
nessed the ordinance of baptism by immersion, gathered to 
witness the immersion of Mr. Carwile Hussa. The first cele- 
bration of the Lord's Supper was on the first Sunday in 
June, 1888. On the first Sunday in August a Sunday-school 
was organized with thirty-four members. In October following 
their Sunday-school literature was received and distributed. 

Rev. J. D. Huggins was pastor during the year 1889. The 
house of worship w^as dedicated October 13th, 1S89 — sermon 
by Rev. C. P. Scott, of Newberry. Rev. N. B. AVilliams; 
Rev. J. C. Boyd, of the A. R. P. Church; and the pastor, 
Rev. J. D. Huggins, also took part in the services. Rev. J. D. 
Huggins preached his farewell sermon on the 22nd of De- 
cember, 1889. The church then called Rev. T. J. Smith, who 
did not accept. The call was then extended to Rev. H. T. 
Smith, January lOth, 1890. He accepted and served as pastor, 
1890-1. 

At the request of the Lexington Church, this church or- 
dained Mr. S. J. Riddle to the ministry of the gospel, De- 
cember 27th, 1891. The sermon was preached and the prayer 
offered by Rev. G. A. Wright; the charge delivered and the 
Bible presented by Rev. H. T. Smith. 

At the first of the year 1892 Rev. J. W. Blantou, as mis- 
sionary pastor, took charge of this church. The membership 
in April was thirty-one. 



Methodist. 

For the following history of the Methodist Church in New- 
berry County I am indebted to Rev. J. B. Traywick and his 
daughter. Miss Mary Traywick: 

The early history of the Methodist Church in Newberry 
County has not been preserved with any degree of accuracy, 
except in a feAV instances. This is accounted for by the fact 
that Methodism was not introduced into the States by immi- 
gration from Europe, as in the case of the Lutheran and 



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ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



Presbyterian Churches, but by the evangelical labors of itin- 
erant preachers; and, also, the early Methodist] churches were 
generally organized in private houses, and were not served by 
resident pastors, but by itinerant preachers, who were usually 
changed annually, and who served large numbers of preaching 
places. Then the early cliurches had no record except class- 
books for societies; hence we have lost much of the valuable 
history of Methodism in the first half century of its existence 
in this county. 

The first Methodist society in Newberry County could not 
have been organized sooner than 1784. The following year 
the Broad River Circiiit was formed, which circuit extended 
from Dutch Fork to Pacolet, in Spartanburg District. The 
Broad River Circuit did not include all Newberry District. 
A few years later Saluda River Circuit was formed, and those 
churches on the Saluda side of the district were included in it. 
This arrangement continued until 1794, when Bush River Cir- 
cuit was organized, and most of the churches in Newberry 
Distric", except the churches on Enoree River, which were in 
Enoreo Circuit, wore included in Bush River Circuit, and con- 
tinued in this circuit until 1S2(), when NeAvberry Circuit was 
organized, the territory of which included all Newberry County 
except Ebenezer, near Maybinton, and Mt. Tabor; also all of 
Lexington Fork, and Hopewell, Salem and Sardis, in Laurens. 

The churches in Newberry District, from the beginning in 
1784, had enjoyed the ministerial service of many of the 
leading preachers of that day, beginning with James Foster, 
and. Stephen Johnson as junior for that year. Bishop Asbury 
often preached in Newberry District, as did Bishops Coke and 
Whatcoat. 

Coleman Carlisle was in charge of Newberry Circuit its first 
year, 1820. He was the grandfather of Dr. R. C. Carlisle and 
M. A. Carlisle, Esq., of our coutity. His body sleeps in Salem 
Graveyard, in Laurens County, S. C. The preachers on New 
berry Circuit for 1821 were: James Mullinnix and Daniel Riley; 
1822, Henry Bass and M. McPherson; 1823, Robert Adams; 
1824-5, Joseph Holmes; 1820, to be supplied; 1827, Barnett 
Smith; 1828, Samuel Dunwoody; 1829-80, David Derrick: 
1881-2, John Watts; 1883, John Compton; 1834, Jacob Ozier: 
1835, H. W. Ledbetter and W. C. Ferrill; 1830-7, Frederick 



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.Rush; 1838-9, David Derrick, and in 1889 also John Tarrant; 
1840-1, Geo. W. Moore and John Tarrant; 1842-3, J. H. 
Zimmerman and D. Byrd; 1844, Samuel Dun woody and L. M. 
Little; 1845, Samviel Dunwoody and A. B. McGilvary; 1840-7, 
Ira L. Potter and W. A. Connor; 1848, C. A. Crowell and 
S. H. Brown; 1849, W. A. McSwain and J. J. Harris; 1850, 
P. G. Bowman and S. H. Dunwoody; 1851, J. H. Zimmerman 
and Jas. W. Bouchelle; 1852, C. Murchison and E. J. Pen- 
nington; 1853, C. Murchison and W. E. Boon; 1854, C. H. 
AValker and A. B. McGilvary. 

In 1854 the church in Newberry was set off as a station. 
But we follow the circuit in its preachers to the present. 
In 1854, Samuel Townsend; 1855, M. Puckett and J. T. Du- 
bose; 1856, M. Puckett and D. D. Byars; 1857, Tho.s. Eaysor 
and James Cline; 1858, Thos. Eaysor and Wesley Graham: 
1859-00, J. T. Kilgo and Wm. Bowman; 1801-2, John W. 

Wightman and ; 1803-4, M. A. Connelly and J. M. 

Boyd; 1805-08, J. H. Zimmerman was in charge with \V. A. 
Hodges as junior in '05, J. B. Traywick in '00-7, and Robert 
M. Harrison in '08. In 1809, W. H. Lawton and J. M. Boyd: 
1870, A. J. Cauthen and G. T. Harmon; 1871, A. P. Avant 
and J. C. Counts; 1872, A. P. Avant and H. W. Whitaker: 
1873, J. L. Shuford and D. D. Dantzler; 1874, J. L. Shuford 

and J. C. Counts; 1875-0, Thos. G. Herbert and L. F. Beaty; 
1877, Thos. G. Herbert and James W. Ariail; 1878, Thos. G. 

Herbert and W. P. Meadors; 1879, Jno. W. Kelly and W. P. 

Meadors; 1880, J. W. Kelly and Jas. S. Porter; 1881, A. J. 

Stokes and Thos. W. White; 1882, A. J. Stokes and J. W. 

Neeley; 1883, M. Brown and W. H: Hodges; 1884, M. Brown 

and G. R. Whitaker; 1885, M. Brown and G. H. Waddell: 

1880, M. M. Brabham and J. M. Steadman; 1887-8, M. M. 

Brabham and A. W. Attaway; 1889, M. M. Brabham and 

W. C. Mouzon; 1890, W. H. Lawton; 1891-2, Coke D. Mann; 

1893, W^ L. Wait. 

Newberry as a station bad as its first pastor, in 1854, 

Jno. R. Pickett; 1855-0, W. A. McSwain; 1857-8, A. W. 

Walker; 1859-00, M. A. McKibbin; 1801-2, Bond English; 

1803, Thos. J. Clyde; 1804, J. E. Watson; 1805-0, J. W. 

Humbert; 1807-8, W. S. Black; 1809-70, O. A. Darby; 1871-2, 

J. A. Mood; 1873-4, M. Brown; 1875, R. P. Franks; 1870-7. 



()d(j ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

C. H. Pritchard; 1S7S, A. M. Chrietzberg; 1S7U-S1, J. B. 
Campbell; 1882-8, R. D. Smart; 1884-5, J. A. Clifton; LS86, 
H. F. Chrietzberg; 1887-8, J. L. Stokes; 18S<J-U(), W. S. 
Wightman; 1891-3, W. W. Daniel. 

At the Conference of 1875 North Newberry Circuit was 
formed, consisting of Tranquil, Tabernacle and Sharon, iu 
Newberry County, and two churches in Laurens, and E. T. 
Hodges appointed as pastor for 1S70; in 1877, J. W. Humbert; 
1878-y, M. L. Banks; 1880-1, A. C. Legette; ] 882-8, A. A. 
Gilbert; 1884, W. H. Ariail; 1885, R. R. Dagnall; 1880, M. H. 
Pooser; 1887-8, T. P. Phillips; 188',), E. P. Taylor: 1890. 
E. A. Wilkes, 1891-2, O. N. Ronntroe. This circuit now 
bears the name of Kinards. 

At the Conference of 1889 Prosperity Circuit was set ofif, 
consisting of Prosperity Church, Zion, Mt. Pleasant and New 
Hope, and J. B. Tray wick was appointed pastor for 1890-92. 
For 1893, D. D. Dantzler has been appointed. 

Thus, at some length, I have given the pastors who have 
labored in Newberry County. Among this long list, there are 
many who have distinguished themselves as able preachers, 
and as a rule they have been faithful and earnest pastors. 

Newbei'ry has furnished the Church and County with a long 
list of faithful, self-sacrificing local preachers, who, while sup- 
porting themselves, have done a vast amount of ministerial 
labor without pecuniary compensation. I mention most of 
them as they occur to my mind: John McCartney, Philip 
Cromer, Dr. M. W. Moon, George Clark, Nathan Boyd, Samuel 
Neil, William Harmon, Warren Kilgore, Henry Cloy, Stephen 
Shell," William Curry, Dr. James Kilgore, S. H. Dunwoody, 
Mark M. Boyd and \Y. Walter Summers. 

Newberry has also furnished a goodly number of itinerant 
preachers: George Dougherty, J. W. Lee, M. D., Thos. G. 
Herbert, J. Marion Boyd, Geo. M. Boyd, D. Pettus Boyd, 
B. M. Boozer, J. C. Counts, E. T. Hodges and J. Matthew 
Henry. While all these sous of Newberry have reflected 
honor on their native county, yet the first named deserve 
special notice. 

Geo. Dougherty was bora about 1772, in Newberry District, 
near the Lexington line (the place now unknown). His life 
was short- only about thirty-five years — his opportunies for 



ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 697 

education limited; he lost one eye, and was greatly disfigured 
by smallpox. His burning thirst for knowledge led him to 
attain a marked position as a scholar, as a logician, theologian 
and orator. He was far in advance of any contemporaries, 
according to the accounts given us of his great preaching by 
Drs. Pierce, FliGn, Chrietzberg and others. No South Caro- 
liaian has ever excelled him. Newberrians should hold his^ 
name in precious remembrance. He died in Wilmington, N. C. 
in 1807. 

Dr. J. W. Lee went out into the itinerant ministry from 
New Ho])e Church. He labored a number of years, first in 
the South Carolina Conference and later on in the North 
Carolina Conference. He Avas a theologian of no mean ability. 
He died a few years since in North Carolina. 

B. M. Boozer went out from Zion Church, and joined the 
South Carolina Conference in 1S75. He was a pure, gentle 
Christian; was very useful, and died in 1882, in Spartanburg 
County, S. C. As to the others mentioned, they are still 
living and highly esteemed by the entire Conference. 

As to the local preachers named, they not only contributed 
largely to the development of the Methodist Church in the 
county, but were true and patriotic citizens of the county. I may 
be permitted to write more fully of one of them, though living; 
Mark M. Boyd ("Uncle Mark"), now in his eighty-seventh 
year. He was reared in the New Hope community, but 
has lived many years in the New Chapel. He has been a 
member of the Church for sixty-seven years, and a local 
preacher for tifty. No man, dead or living, has exerted a 
greater influence on the moral and spiritual life of Newberry 
County than he. His whole record is without a blot or stain;, 
he is universally loved wherever known and his name is a 
household word well nigh throughout the entire State. His- 
coming to the homes of the people is hailed as a benediction. 
He is justly proud of the fact that all of his children are 
true Christians, and his three living sons are influential mem- 
bers of the South Carolina Conference. His father was Rev, 
Nathan Boyd. So as preachers the name Boyd has been con- 
tinued for a whole century in Newberi'V County. 

While Newberry County has given the Church so many 
Methodist preachers, perhaps her riche.st offei-Ing has been in 



698 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

preachers' wives. Not only have most of the local preachers 
mentioned above married Newberry women, but the following 
itinerant preachers have married wives among Newberry's fair 
daughters: W. B. Curry, John Watts, S. H. Dunwoody, J. W. 
Lee, J. M. Boyd, G. M. Boyd, J.. E. Watson, J. W. Humbert, 
Fred Auld, T. H. Edwards, J. B. Traywick, J. C. Counts, 
D. P. Boyd, B. M. Boozer, H. W. Whitaker, D. D. Dantzler, 
A. Coke Smith, A. M. Chrietzberg, W. W. Jones, J. S. Porter, 
L. F. Beaty, J. E. Rushton, G. H. Waddell, A. A. Gilbert, 
M. M. Brabham and A. W. Attaway. The greater number of 
these marriages have occurred in the past twenty-five years. 

It becomes necessary to go back and give a brief account 
of the origin and history of each church in the county. This 
wdl not be according to dates in every instance. 

It is quite probable that the first Methodist Church in New 
■berry County was organized in the house of Edward Finch. 
Bishop Asbury held a Quarterly Conference here in 1788. 
This was near where Mt. Bethel Academy was built and ded- 
icated by Bishop Asbury in 1795. Its first rector was Rev. 
Mark Moore, who was in charge for six years, assisted by 
Messrs. Smith and Hammond. Mr. Hammond succeeded Mr. 
Moore. He was the father of Gov. Hammond. Mt. Bethel 
had a large patronage and gave to South Carolina some of 
her most distinguished men. This school continued imtil 
about 1820, when it was superceded by Tabernacle Academy, 
in Abbeville District. Annual collections were taken by the 
Church for the support of this institution. 

Mt. Pleasant was built about 1822, and is five or six 
miles from the site of old Mt. Bethel. The first house was a 
plain, unpretentious building, but the present commodious 
building was erected about 1802. Micajah Suber, who joined 
"this church late in life, left in his will a gift of $1,000 
toward its erection. Among the first members of this church 
I mention the Goodwins, Oxners, Lyleses, Gilliam s, Hattons. 
Dr. Thos. Rutherford, of this church, was mainly instrumental 
in building and gave large aid in supporting "Rutherford's 
Camp Ground," which was located near the present residence 
of Thos. W. Keitt. He also contributed largely to the building 
of the church, as did Dr. McCants and many others. Among 
the official members of this church, the present and past gen- 



AXNALS OF NEWBERRY. 69U 

■eration, I mention the Grahams, Eptings, Adamses, Cromers 
jind Willi nghams. J. II. Smith, R. P. Cromer and Thos. W. 
Keitt are stewards at this time, with E. W. Reese secretary. 

Salem was located on Second Creek, near the late residence 
of Felix Graham. It was built about 1800, but in 1835 was 
merged into New Hope, which church was organized in 1795. 
Rev. Nathan Boyd was a leading spirit in its early history. 
He was zealou.sly aided by the Tygerts, Lakes, Cromers, Gra- 
hams, Thompsons and others of that day. The present church 
building was built about 1831, about two miles from the site 
of the old church. The church has recently been greatly im- 
proved. Among the names connected with this church later 
on I mention the Glymphs, Bishops, Hugheys, Cannons, 
Wickers, Kinards, Cromers, Crookses, Lanes, Setzlers, Slighs, 
Hattons, Hentzes, Woods, Adamses, Grahams, Lakes, etc. 

New Chapel, or rather Old Chapel, was built in the first 
decade of this centiiry. It stood one mile south of the present 
building. In 1830 the old log church was abandoned and a 
neat frame building was built. This was accomplished mainly 
through the liberality of Isaac Herbert. This church gave 
way in 1879 to the beautiful church which now stands in its 
place. Among the first members of this church may be men- 
tioned the Herberts, Gibsons, Lakes, Jenkinses, Montzes, etc. 
From 1840 to 1850 this church had large gains by conver- 
sions and transfers: the Boyds — Joshua and Mark M. — with 
their families. Lakes, Adamses, Morgans, Boulwares, Schumperts 
tind others. The name of Isaac Herbert stands most promi- 
nently in Newberry County, and especially in his Church. No 
man has exerted a greater influence in developing a liberal 
and progressive spirit in the Church. He died in 1875, leaving 
n lasting influence for good. One of his sons, Thos. G. Her 
bert, is a prominent member of the South Carolina Conference 
and his children and grandchildren are numbered among the 
choicest citizens of our State. New Chapel community for the 
past fifty years has been noted for the sobriety, integrity and 
hospitality of its citizens. 

Stockmans-Bethel was built about 1790; it was located near 
the residence of the late Dr. J. A. Berly. Among the leading 
members were the Stockmans, Dickerts and Folks. In 1840 
a new church was built near Pomaria and the name chanofed 



700 AKNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 

to Bethel. Only a few white families were conuected with it. 
but the Gospel was here preached to a large number of 
slaves. After the emancipation of the slaves and the death 
of John Folk, and the removal of his sons, the church was 
abandoned. 

King's Church stood near the present site of St. Luke's 
Lutheran Church. It was built in the early part of this 
century, mainly by John King. It was a plain log house. 
After the death of John King the church was abandoned. 
Jacob Bedenbaiigh went to Harmon's Church and many of 
his descendants are members of Zion Church at this time. 

Many years after King's Church was given up, in 18-45, 
another church, named Nebo, was built in this community, 
near the residence of J. Wesley Boozer. His father, John 
Boozer, was the leading spirit in its erection. David Harmon 
became a member of this church lata in life. Some years 
after the death of John Boozer, this church was merged with 
Zion (1871), and the old house disposed of. By this means 
Zion received some excellent members, mostly descendants of 
John Boozer. 

Harmon's (Zion) was organized and the ili'st church built in 1813. 
Among its first members were the Harmon brothers — John, 
Jacob, Thomas, William and James — Daniel Taylor, Matthias 
Hair and Rev. James McCartney. Some years after, Thomas 
T. Cureton became a member. He was Ordinary of Newberry 
District eight years, 1819-27. Dr. Geo. Lester also became a 
member. The old church was located about a mile from where 
Zion now stands, and on the east side of Holly's Ferry road. 
In 1829 the congregation moved and built a neat frame church 
where Zion now stands, and named it Zion, giving the Bap- 
tists the use of the old church, which was the beginning of 
Bethel. In 1853 Zion was blessed with a great revival under 
the ministry of Rev. G. W. M. Creighton, and a large num- 
ber of persons joined. Col. Henry Stockman and 'Squire P. W. 
Counts were among the number. Col. Stockman was a leading 
and active member until his death a few years since. 'Squire 
Counts still lives in age and affliction. His ds^ep piety, up- 
right life and sunny nature make him a benediction t^ all. In 
186G this church had another wonderful revival. Ninety per- 
sons were converted, and many who joined at that meeting 



ANNALS OF NEAVBERKY. 

701 

still live to bless the church. Two converts of this meeting 
became useful ministers — J. C. Counts and B. M. Boozer. 
This church has enjoyed great prosperity for the past twenty- 
five years, and has now '250 members, with a large Sunday- 
school in charge of E. P. Cromer. While largo numbers 
have removed to other sections, building up other churches, 
I cannot leave Zion without mentioning that venerable man, 
Christian S. Enlow, the oldest member in this church, who 
has stood true and faithful for nearly sixty years. The large 
and Splendid church in which this congregation now^ worships 
was built in 1880 when Rev. J. W. Kelly was pastor. The 
late Pierce Harmon took a most active part in its erection. 
The following family names are now on the roll of the church: 
Amick, Boozer, Bowers, Bedenbaugh, Barnes, Cromer, Counts, 
Connelly, Clamp, Cameron, Crompton, Cook, Dominick, Daw- 
kins, Enlow, Fellers, Frazier, Fulmer, Gibson, Hipp, Harmon, 
Hendrix, Hair, Hawkins, Koon, Morris, Mayer, Moore, Mills, 
Nichols, Pugh, Eikard, Stockman, Shealy, Taylor, Vaughn 
aod Warner. 

Tranquil was first built in 1709, and the first members were 
Wrights, Shells, Browns, and Seymore families, from Yirgini?, 
who had become Methodists in their native State. In 1832 
the old log church gave way to a frame church, and in 185'J 
this second building was superseded by a beautiful church, 
which building continued to be used until 1890, when it was 
taken down and moved to Jalapa, still retaining the old name 
of Tranquil. The once large membership of such choice 
material, haviag passed away by death and removal, only a 
very few remain. For over fifty years this church was a 
leading one in Newberry District. Among the many excellent 
members of this church, special mention should be made of 
Zaccheus W^right, (father of Capt. Ft. H.' Wright), and Eobt. G. 
Gilliam (father of Mrs. Lizzie Hinson). These two noble souls, 
though diverse in temperament, wore one in the work of 
Christ's kingdom. To this church and community belongs the 
honor cf organizing the first Sabbath -school in Newberry 
County — in 1827 — conducted by Z iccheus Wright and Absalom 
Glasgow, (Presbyterian). 

Tabernacle was organized ia IS 12. John B. FaJue w;s the 
leading spirit in its beginning, aud continued one of its main 



702 ANNALS OF NEWBEEET. 

f^r^pports until his death. The first building was succeedei by a 
comfortable one in 185G, on land donated by Nathan Johnson- 
a leading Baptist in the community. Zaccheus Wright and 
Robert G. Gilliam, from Tranquil, greatly aided in building^ 
these houses of worship, and otherwise developing the church. 
Mrs. Bettie Gilliam, the Oxners, Bishops, Davises, and others 
are names connected with this church's history. 

Sharon was built in 1869, on land donated for cemetery and 
church by Capt. John Martin Kinard in 1854. Jacob Summers 
Avas the leading spirit in the enterprise. The Gorees, Oxners,. 
Harmons, Whittens, and Hinsons are among its first members. 
Rev. W. V7alter Summer is an earnest, useful local preacher in 
this church. The church membership is not large, but made 
up of fine material. Near by stands the parsonage of Kinard* )> 
Circuit. 

In 183S Col. Samuel Cannon, David H. Buzhardt, Jacob 
Sligh and John Moore erected a stand near Cannon's Cx'eek 
Church, known as Pleasant Grove, for preaching by the 
Methodists. Rev. David Derrick had regular aj)pointments 
here. A church was built here in 1840. This church was 
tept up for a few years, but after the death of Col. Cannon, 
Jacob Sligh and John Moore moved to Ebenezer, and David 
H. Buzhardt Avith his family to Newberry, the church was 
abandoned. 

After Pleasant Grove was discontinued, there was no Metho- 
dist Church for fifteen miles northeast of Newberry. Preach- 
ing services were held occasionally at a stand not far from 
where Lebanon now stands. J. C. Counts commenced preach- 
ing here regularly in 1872, and a church was soon afterward 
built. Benjamin F. McGraw, D. H. Buzhardt and their families 
were most active in this enterprise. The membership was 
small for many years, but it has grown rapidly for the past- 
few years, and is now a prosperous church with a little less 
than one hundred members. The followmg are some of the 
family names: McGraw, Buzhardt, Reagin, Lominick, Weudt. 
Cromer, Adams, Thomason, Wilson, Harris, Parrott, Hayes, 
Dickert, Brown, Oxner, and Caldwell. 

In the year 1848 a small church was built a mile southeast 
of the village of Prosperity, then called Frog Level. Those 
most interested in the church at first were Jes.se Dominicky 



AXNALS OF NEWBERRY. lOS 

John Dominick, George Stockman and their families. C. S. 
Enlow took an active part in building the church, which never 
prospered greatly. After some changes the congregation 
removed their place of worship, which was called Bethesda, to 
Prosperity, and worshiped in halls and school-rooms for a few 
years until they succeeded in building a small, but neat church, 
and gave it the name of Wightman Chapel, which was com- 
pleted in 1881. Special mention should be made of J. Luther 
Counts, for without his aid the work would have long been 
delayed. E. P. Cromer and A. J. Kilgore were with him on 
the building committee. The membership of this church was 
small during the first decade of its existence, but for the past 
few years it has grown until there are seventy-five members, 
with a most excellent Sunday-school, which has been superin- 
tended first by D. M. Langford and now by F. V. Capers. 
This church is made up largely of most excellent material. 
The members showed an heroic spirit in building up their 
church and their advanced liberality in its support. The first 
members of this church were the families of Counts, Boul- 
ware, Lacgford, Dominick, Kinard, Taylor and Amick. Added 
to these at present there are Bowers, Capers, Hardy, Hodges, 
Sims, Lake, Ruff, Nichols, Kibler, Hunter, Etheridge and Long. 
Mt. Tabor, located sixteen miles north of Newberry, was 
organized about 1820. It is a frame building, thirty by thirty- 
six feet, with a gallery across the end for the accommodation 
of the large number of worshipers in that neighborhood. The^ 
gallery was not built for the negroes as is usual with churches 
erected before the War between the States. The following 
were prominent members: Andrew Hipp, William Shell, Col. 
Benjamin HerndoQ, (at whose home Bishop Asbury was wont 
to lodge), John Epps, Jacob Hipp, Daniel Epps, Laban 
Rhodes, John Casey, John Lake, John Anderson, Aldrich Hipp, 
Thomas Phillips. Benjamin Ogletree and John B. Glenn were 
local preachers. In the year 1843 a camp meeting was held 
about one mile to the northwest, and in a year or two there- 
after a new church was built there, and it took the place of 
the one mentioned. The new structure was built by Absalom 
Shell and John A. Abrams, the former being the first person 
married in the new edifice. The five acres of land embraced 
in this location were given by Allen Shell and Nathan Whit- 



704 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

mire. The following deceased members were actively associated 
ia the development of the new church: John Sims, Georgi' 
Hipp, Allen Shell, Henry Whitmire, John A. Abrams, James 
Epps, Thomas B. Kennedy, James Gordon, Solomon C. 
Hargrove, Samuel Abrams and Mark Shell. The following 
family names ai'e to be found on the present member- 
ship roll: Abrams Abernethy, Andrews, Atchison, Baker, 
Bishoj), Cromer, Dean, Denson, Epps, Enlow, Fant, Hargrove. 
Hipp, Metts, McCarley, McCrackin, Phifer, Sims, Spearman, 
Suber, Shannon, Tidmarsh, Whitmire, Wright, Wicker. The 
church building is commodious, painted, carpeted and sup{)li( d 
with an organ. Large congregations continue to assemble. 
The church is embraced in the Clinton circuit. For many 
years it was part of the Goshen Hill circuit.* 

Ebenezer (Maybinton) is perhaps the oldest organized Meih- 
• odist Church in Newberry County. Bishop Asbury, ia his 
journals, spoke of lodging in this neighborhood, in 3800, with 
"Thomas Hardy — grandfather of Hon. W. D. Hardy — who was 
a leading member of this church. It had been long estab- 
lished then — possibly soon after the Society at Finches (Mt. 
Bethel). The first building was used as a school-house. The 
second building was built on land donated by Dr. Burwell 
Chick. The second was superseded by the present building 
Ta 1848. The ground was given by Rev. George Clark, a 
local preacher who traveled some years in the Conference, but 
located and lived in this community. In 1870 the church was 
remodeled and enlarged through the zeal of the ladies of the 
congregation. In the long and prosperous history of this 
congregation, as members and laboi'ers, are to be found the 
names of many of the most excellent citizens of Newberry 
County. In its early history are to be found the names of 
Huron, Hardy, Caldwell, Cofleld, Brazzleman, Clark, Chandler, 
Davis, Harris; and later, Moorman, Chick, May bin, Douglass, 
Lyles, Oxnei', Glenn, Worthy, Bishop, Goadlocke, Murtisbaw, 
Hodges and Sims. The membership is now small, as her sons 

*At the Conference of 1892 the Whitmire Circuit wps established, 
inclucling Mt. Tabor, the church at Whitmires aud possibly one or two 
in Union and Laurens. The church at Whitmires, a neat frame build- 
ing, was built in 1892 by Rev. W. A. Betts, then pastor of Clinton circuit. 
Kev. S. T. Blackman was appointed as the first pastor of the new circuit. 
"The church was dedicated on Sunday, January 1, 1893, by Bishop Duncan. 



ANN'ALS OF NEWBERKY, 705 

and daughters have gone out a blessing to other places. Rev. 
E. T. Hodges, of the South Carolina Conference, w^-nt out 
from this church. I have not been able to give the pastors 
of this church and Mt. Tabor, as they have been connected 
with Enoree, Union and Goshen Hill circuits. 

Moon's was located in the forks of Saluda and Little llivers. 
It dates back to the last decade of the la?t century. Amonc- 
its firs-t members was Dr. W. M. Moon, who was a local 
I'-rcacher and most prominent in its building and support. 
Bi.-hop Asbury often rested at his hospitable home. Later on 
in its hi.story we find connected with this church, Dr. Peter 
Mcon, Mrs. Tabitha Atkinson, Rev. William Harmon and the 
Boulwares. Mrs. Nancy Boulwaie and her husband, Robert 
Boulware, Avere active members, th: n tl e'r sons, Andrew and 
James R. Boulware. In ISol this church was disbanded: 
Dr. Peter Moon moving to Newberry and the Boulwares to 
Soule Chapel in Lauren^% and the renia"ning members to 
Trinity. 

In 1S14 Jacob Gantt sold th'» lot on \\lii(h Ebenezej- 
Church was built to Edward Finch, Stephen Shell and David 
Owens, Trustees. The first church was probably built that 
year, 1814. We find that in 18o() a new Board of Trustees 
was appointed, viz: Daniel Smith, Wm. Watson, Wm. Harmon, 
Zachariah Connelly and Jeremiah Morgan. Among those most 
prominent in the early years of its history, we find the Wat- 
sons, Morgans and Owenses, in 1832. Dr. Jas. Kilgore moved 
into this community from Stoney Battery, where be had but 
recently become a Methodist at Harmon Church. He at once 
became a most liberal and zealous member of Ebenezer. He 
was a physician of large practice, and a most successful local 
preacher. We find in 1837, through his efforts, the church 
lot was much enlarged, and it was about this time the large 
frame church was built, which was used by the congregation 
until 1880, when the beautiful church now in use was built 
higher up the hill. It was about 1835 when camp-meetings 
began to be held here annually, and continued to be held 
for twenty years,* though camp-meetings had been held here 
prior to 1827, and the camp ground had been popularly known 

"Camp- meetings were begun here again in ISTo, and were continued 
to be held annually for about seven years. 

2- X 



706 ANXALS OF NEWBEEKY. 

as "Watson's Camp Ground. This cliurch received most valued 
acqusition in 1851, when Jacol) Sligh moved into this com- 
munity. The name Kilgore has been associated with this 
church for sixty years, and that of Sligh for forty years. 
Dr. Kilgore died in 1856, and his son, A. J. Kilgore, was 
also an officer for many years. Jacob Sligh died in 1885, 
and his son, G. McD. Sligh, is still a leading member here. 
Among the names found on her roll in the past are Morgan, 
Watson, Owens, Moore, Kilgore, Lake and Smith, and later 
on to these we add Sligh, Swindler, Hipp, Dunwoody, Hair, 
Goggans, Frazier, Cromer, Alewine, Hayes, Summers, Teague 
and Maffett. This church sustained a heavy loss in the death 
of A, J. Kilgore this year, 1892. 

Shady Grove was located not far from the residence of the 
late John T. Petei'son, and Kadesh about four miles above, 
in the Senn neighborhood. I am unable to give the date of 
the building of these churches, but they were among the first 
Methodist churches in Newberry County. They were built 
not later than 1795, and had a separate existence until 1836, 
when they were united and the name Trinity given the new 
church. The church built in 1836, on the site where Trinity 
now stands, continued in use until 1888, when the elegant 
church now used by the congregation was built. This church 
is one of the largest and most prosperous churches in the 
county. 

The Methodist Church was organized in the town of New- 
berry about 1833. Mrs. Higgins once gave the writer an 
account of a great revival in Newberry in 1831. She said 
that it was a union meeting largely conducted by Baptists 
and Methodists, and that the results were the building of the 
Baptist and Methodist Churches; first the Baptist in 1832, 
and the Methodist the following year. It is worthy of remark 
tliat the town of Newberry was laid out in 1785, and the 
first church, the Baptist, was not built until 1832 — forty-seven 
years. It is highly probable that the people of the town had 
had preaching in the Court House frequently. 

The building now in use by the Methodist congregation is 
the same which was built in 1833. Large improvements were 
made in 1873; and, I am glad to say, at this writing a large 
subscription has already been raised to build a brick church 
to cost $8,000. 



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Among tlie liist members ot this church we tind Philip 
Schopert and family, Mrs. Martha Turner, Mrs. Precious Schell, 
Daniel Boozer, Thos. Pratt, Jr., and Josiah Bishop. One of the 
original members still lives in Newberry — Mrs. Sarah Pope, 
iiee Lorick. In looking over the names of the members, 
we find those of many of Newberry's choice citizens. Philip 
Schopert was, for a number of years, Recording Steward of 
Newberry Circuit. Dr. Geo. F. Epps, Dr. Peter Moon, Gen. 
H. H. Kinard, Kichard C. Chapman, Eobt. Moorman, Andrew M. 
Wicker, Dr. P. B. Ruff, Thos, F. Greneker, and many other 
devoted men and women. On the roll at this time are to be 
found the following family names: Blease, Bynum, Bishop, 
Chapman, Cook, Caldwell, Cromer, Evans, Eddy, Epting, Fair, 
Fant, Greneker, Gilder, Goodman, Hornsby, Johnson, Jones, 
Kinard, Lane, Livingstone, Langford, Lake, Moorman, Moore, 
Metts, Maybin, McWhirter, Merchant, Pope, Pitts, Russell, Riser, 
Rivers, Salter, Suber, Shockley, Summers, Taylor, Tarrant, Wil- 
liams, Wright, White, Wallace, Welch, Wicker. 

The present pastor, Rev. \V. W. Daniel, organized, in 1891, a 
second church at Factoryville, with sixty members, and J. R. 
Thornton and Martin Berry as stewards. 

Newberry Methodist Church has had continuous prosperity 
from the beginning; has now about three hundred members. 
Three sessions of the South Carolina Conference have been 
held here— 1853, 1808 and 1878. 

There are at this time fourteen Methodist Churches in the 
county, divided into four pastoral charges, with four parsonages; 
one located in the town of Newberry, one at Ebenezer, one at 
Prosperity and one at Kinards. There are fifteen hundred 
members in the white churches, with about two thousand in 
the colored. The colored Methodists of the county have, as a 
rule, good churches and are well supplied with pastors. They 
worshipped with the whites until after Emancipation; since 
then they have gone mostly into the A. M. E. Church. A few 
have joined the C. M. E. Church. 

I have given a meagre account of Methodism in Newberry 
County. It would require a large volume to tell of the camp- 
meetings and revivals, of the active workers in her Sunday- 
schools, and of the great numbers who have gone out to bless 
other States. But I trust to save from utter oblivion some 
valuable facts for the future historian. 



7<)s annals of newberhy. 

Episcopal. 

There is only oie Episcopal Church in the county — St. 
^Luke's, at the corner ot Pratt and Calhoun Streets, Newberry. 
It is a hanJsome little Gothic edilice, with self-supporting roof, 
stained glass and tasteful interior design and liuish, and was 
\)nilt by Contractor Hamilton, of Charleston, in 1854-5 from a 
^traAving by Architect Walker, of Columbia. The plat was made 
!)y Mr. F. B. Higgius. 

St. Luke's was consecrated by Bishop T. F. Davis, August 20, 
1855. The lirst officers were: E. S. Bailey and Stiles Hurd, 
Wardens; Norman Bronson, Wm. B. D'Oyley, Wm. C. Johnson, 
y. H. Kingsmore and Albert C. Garlington, Yestry. 

The first Episcopal Missionary to Newberry was Ilev. B. S. 
Seely, in 18-1:5, and the first minister officiating at St. Luke's 
was Rev. E. T. Walker, in 1855. 

The following is the order in which the church has been 
u-jupplied: Eev. C. R. Haines, 185U-G0; Rev. Lucien C. Lance, 
{862 to 1866; Rev. J. Maxwell Pringle, 1867; Rev. E. R. 
MQes, 1870 to 1873; Rev. P. F. Stevens, 1874; Rev. John 
Kershaw, 1876 to 1879; Rev. S. H. S. Gallaudet, September, 
1879, to June, 1880; Rev. Frank Hallam, October 17, 1880, to 
December, 1881; Rev. W. F. Dickinson, January, 1882, to 
slose of same year; Rev. AV. H. Hanckel, January, 1883, to 
October, 1892, when in the ])rovidence of God Mr. Hanckel 
■wxi removed from his labors in the Church Militant to the 
Ikigher duties of the Church Triumphant. St. Luke's is at 
present without a rector. 

The congregation of St. Luke's being small, the church has 
Bad but one r(\sident minister. Rev. Dr. Dickinson. It has 
depended for pastoral work upon stated services by ministers 
©f adjacent parishes. But it has been kept open every Sunday 
Tsrith rare exceptions by its present beloved and devoted lay 
Teadet', Capt. N. B. Mazyck. May he be spared for this labor 
of love for many years to come. 

In connection herewith might be mentioned the nameio of 
she ministers who in the past have visited this church and 
held divine services: Rev. J. W. McCullough, Rev. J. Ward 
Simmons, Rev. Richard Trapier, Dr. A. Toomer Porter, Dr. 
€. C. Pincliaey, Rev. Craumore Wallace, Rev. Robert Wilson, 
Rev. E. C. Logan and others. 



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The following are the present officers of the church: N. B- 
Mazyck and A. W. T. Simmons, Wardens; R. H. Grenekec, 
J. Newton Fowles, O. McR. Holmes and E. S. Motte, Vestry. 

Quakers. 

Of the Quakers little more need be said. The last one wbe 
clung to the old faith died a good many year.s ago. The 
})roperty on Bush River still belongs to the church, and I have 
heard a rumor that an effort is to be made to revive the 
church and rebuild the house of worship. 1 hope it may ba 
done. We need thrifty, God-fearing men. We need those 
who believe in the direct and immediate movement and 
(juickening and inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and w^o are 
men of peace. We need and the world needs more such. 

My old friend Lambert J. Jones, Esq., possesses in an emi- 
nent degree those staid, quiet, steady habits so characteristic 
of the Friends. I do not think it will offend him if I class? 
him with the Friends. It certainly would not offend mo to 
be called a Quaker. But the Tunkers, of whom I am one bj 
descent, though elsewhere I call myself a Swedenborgian, are 
sober, grave and steady as the Quakei's. I would there were 
many of both. I am sure that neither the town nor county 
would suffer loss if all the inhabitants were as industrious 
and upright and true as JMr. Jones. A lawyer who has never 
missed a term of court in fifty -six years' practice, where his 
business called him, must bo steady and true. 

The Tunkers, 
In the beginning of this century, had one church in the 
county, and that v/as all, I think. They lived near the Qua 
kers, not far from Bush River, and like them were men of 
peace, believing it wrong to bear arms or to iight in &nj 
cause. I have understood that in parts of Pennsylvania anti 
Virginia they are in considerable numbers. I have never mot 
one, though ray ancestors on" my father's side were of that 
persuasion. They are German Baptists. James Howe, the 
school teacher, mentioned by Mr. David Jones in his contri- 
bution to this work, lies buried about the centre of the Tanker 
burying ground, where rest the remains of many members of 
the old families of that part of the count3^ It is on the place 



710 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

and near the house where S. S. Paysniger now lives, and who 
married a descendant of one of the old original Tunker set- 
tlers of Newberry. The oldest inscription 1 have been able to 
find on any tombstone there bears date 1811, bnt there are 
some much older without date, as it was used as a burying 
ground before the close of the last century. 

The Universalists, 
Some years ago, had several churches or societies in this 
county. There are none in existence at this time, though 
there is still one house of worship and lot attached held in 
trust for the use of the Universalist Church and for a school 
house. There is, however, a pretty good sprinkling of Uni- 
versalists in the county. The house of worship, Hartford, is 
just three miles south of Newberry. This denomination in the 
neighboring county of Edgefield in the year 1SS8 built a 
meeting house and organized a church with about three dozen 
members. 

The Covenanters, 
A remnant of those devoted men and women of the Solemn 
League and Covenant of Scotland, who gave their blood and 
their lives so freely in the cause of God and human rights, 
once had a church in this county, about seven miles north- 
west fi*om the town of Newberry. But as their faith was the 
same as that of the Presbyterians and Associate Reformed, 
they naturally became extinct and lost their identity in one 
or the other of those bodie.s. 

SWEDENBORGIANS. 

I believe there are no Swedeuborgians in the county except 
myself. I have been told that J. Wood Davidson is of that 
faith, but I have never talkeei with him on religious subjects, 
and though a native of Newberry, he has not been a citizen 
for many years. 

Other Churches. 

The Christians organized a church here a few years ago. 
but I believe they all moved aw'ay and their church organ- 
ization was broken up, so that at this time there are none 
here. 

The Jews have been ffood citizens of the town for a OTeat 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 711 

many years, but they have no synagogue here, nor any Rabbi 
that I am aware of. 

The Roman Catholic Church has some very devoted mem- 
bers, but there is here no resident Priest. 

The colored people of the county have their own separate 
organizations — the Methodist and Baptist predominating — the 
Presbyterians next. I do not think there are any Lutheran 
churches made up of colored people, though some are mem- 
bers of that body of Christians. They have amongst them 
two divisions of the Methodist Church, and probably three. 
I believe the greater number of them are members of some 
Church, being rather emotional in their nature and naturally 
religious. They would make good Roman Catholics, and I 
wonder sometimes why that Church has never established mis- 
sions amongst them and made an effort to absorb them. 

Sunday SCHOOLS. 

In our notice of the Presbyterian Church we have already 
seen that the first Sunday-school ever in the County of New- 
berry, was instituted and organizad with the assistance of 
Zaccheus Wright in the year 1821. Now a church without a 
Sunday-school to train up the children in the faith, would 
soon lose its hold on the growing youth and become non est. 
Its sole dependence would be upon the extreme of revivalism, 
and I fear that even that would fail to keep alive an interest 
in spiritual things. It is better that the young should be 
trained in the right way than driven into it after coming to 
years of maturity. 

I transcribe here an address read by Mr. Zaccheus Wright 
before a Sunday-school Convention held at Newberry, in the 
year 18 — : 

"Dear Friexds : I would not presume to consume your time, or tax your 
patience on this interesting occasion, with anything that I might have to 
say, but for the earnest solicitation of those who have so kindly honored me 
with a seat in this Convention. This is a time and place to me both pleas- 
ant and interesting; pleasant on account of its associations, and inter- 
esting on account of the object to be attained; which is no less than that 
of striving to arrive at the best and most successful way of feeding the 
lambs dt Christ, For more than thirty years I. with others, have been 
engaged in this great work, and, although our labors have not produced 
as much fruit and as great a reformation as we could have desired, yet I 



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have great and abundant reasons for heartfelt gratitude to (lod for His 
approving smiles on our imperfect labors. A few years ago and we had 
never heard of a Sunday-school Convention; a little farther back and we 
had no Sunday-school Visitor; no Child's I\tper; no Sundaij- school 
Times or Banner, paying to each child and parent their weekly, semi- 
monthly and monthly visit, making up in all a more lively interest in the 
Sunday-school cause. Still farther back and we had no well filled Sun- 
day-school Libraries teeming with the memories and biographies of good 
children, who had learned in Sunday-school to love the Saviour, and are 
now safely housed in His bosom. In short, forty years ago in all our 
happy country we had no Sabbath-school. How different then and now. 
Then, even in our cities and towns no Sabbath-school bell was heard to 
chime its pleasant notes to call parents and children together for the pur- 
pose of prayer and praise. But now, not only in town and villages do 
you find Sunday-schools, but all over the country, in almost every church 
and school house, you will find a group of little children anxiously awaiting 
and eager to hear the story of the cross as it comes from the warm heart 
of their devoted teacher. 

"The first Sunday-school of which I have any personal knowledge was 
organized in a small school house, about eleven miles North of this plac j 
in the year 1827. I, with the efficient aid and assistance of a well tried 
and faithful friend, Absalom Glasgow, who has long since gone to his 
reward, were the humble instruments in the hands of God, of putting on 
foot, I believe, the first Sunday-school that was ever organized in this Dis- 
trict. It is true that compared with the schools of the present day it could 
hardly be called a school. We had many difficulties to labor under that 
those of the present day know not of. AVe had no experience, no suitable 
books, a very uncomfortable house, and all the prejudices that then existed 
to contend with. Notwithstanding all these difficulties, we succeeded in 
getting some twelve or fifteen to enroll their names and thus the Sunday- 
school ship was launched in our community, and, by the blessing of God 
on our weak endeavors, has continued to float until the present time. And 
we have good reasons to believe that it has been the means in the hands 
of God of doing much good. Our statistics was imperfectly kept for some 
years for the want of an efficient Secretary. The whole number connected 
with our school since its organization is about three hundred. Out of 
this number fifty-six are dead, perhaps many more of those who have 
moved away. I do not know of any that was raised a member of the 
school and lived to be 21 years of age but what has joined some branch of 
the church, with one exception, and that one is now a member of the 
church. 

"In looking back over the past I can see many, very many, errors and 
shortcomings; much remissness of diity and ingratitude to God; yet I 
trust and humbly pray that He will forgive them all for Christ's sake. 

"Brethren, pray for me that God, who has borne with my weaknesses 
thus far, may not forsake nor leave me. 

"Yours truly, 

"Zaccheus NVright." 



AXKALS OF NEWBERRY. TJ-T 



XI. 
EDUCATIONAL AND LITERAKY. 

NEWBERRY COLLEGE. 

For several years during the history of this State, since the- 
war, colleges known as denonainational were the only institu- 
tions of higher learning in the State, and they filled an im- 
portant gap. INIany of these have been struggling amidst 
meagre support, with no endowment and poorly paid faculties,, 
yet withal they are still doing a good work and form an im- 
portant factor in the educatiouRl work in South Carolina. 

Newberry College is one of these. It was chartered by the 
Legislature of South Carolina in I8o0, with the following 
Trustees: John Bachman, D. D., LL.D.; Kevs. E. B. Hort, 
N. Aldrich, T. S. Boinest, J. P. Margart and J. H. Bailey, and 
Messrs. G. Muller, W. K. Bachman, J. K. Schumpert, M. Barre, 
Patrick Todd, Henry Summer, N. A. Hunter, A. C. Garlington, 
J. P. Aull, Simeon Fair and J. P. Kinard. 

The corner-stone of the projected new building was laid 
with imposing ceremonies on the 15th of July, 1857, addresses 
being made by Rev. J. J. Brantley, Gen. A. C. Garlington and 
Rev. Dr. J. Bachman. This building when completed was at 
that time one of the handsomest in the South. 

The College was opened in the autumn of 1858 with most 
favorable prospects, one hundred and fifty students being en- 
rolled during the first session. The catalogue of the second 
session, 1850-00, showed a roll of one hundred and seventy- 
five names. 

The third year of the College, 1800-61, opened most en- 
couragingly, but before many months the country was involved 
in the excitement and confusion of an approaching civil war. 
Students were summoned home and Professors resigned. 
Early ^in the spring of 1801 the College was closed for that 
session. 

The first President of the College was Rev. T. Stork, D. D. 

Rev. J. P. Smeltzer, of Virginia, was the second President 



714 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

of the College, entering upon his duties in the fall of 18G2. 
With much personal sacrifice and under many difficulties the 
College was kept open for students until the spring of 1865. 
The condition of the College building was such at this time 
as to repel students. The approach of the United States 
army toward Columbia in 1S65 led the Confederate authorities 
-to remove their purveying establishment from that city to 
Newberry. The College building was taken for this purpose. 
As a matter of necessity the exercises were now indefinitely 
suspended. 

After the war the College was reopened under the Presi- 
dency of Kev. Dr. Smeltzer. The College building was so 
near a ruin in 1808 that it was both unsafe and unsuitable. 
At this crisis an offer came from Walhalla of a suitable 
building and grounds, which was accepted by the Lutheran 
Synod of South Carolina, and in November of that year the 
College, with the Faculty, a few students and a small amount 
lOf movable property, was removed to Walhalla. Here, with 
"«^rying success, it remained until September, 1877. 

An extra session of the Lutheran Synod of South Cai-olina 
was held in Newberry, April 3-5, 1877, to consider the qnes- 
tion of removingf the Collecre from Walhalla. Bids were re- 
^:;eived from Prosperity, Walhalla, Columbia, Anderson, Lex- 
ington and Newberry. Newberry's bid was $15,780 in sub- 
scription, together with a gift of ten acres of land, or the 
privilege of buying the old site at |2,500, valued at $3,750. 
This generous offer of the old site was made by Mr. Jordan P. 
Pool, who then owned it. Newberry was chosen on the second 
ballot by a vote of twenty-five out of thirty-nine, and on 
amotion of Rev. J. A. Sligh, who was a strong advocate for 
Prosperity, the vote was made unanimous. 

It was largely through the efforts of Kev. H. W. Kuhns, 
who was then pastor of the Lutheran Church at Newberry, 
that Newberry gave the large subscription that she did and 
secured the College. Dr. Kuhns is a man of great energy 
and perseverance, and threw his whole soul and heart in 
bringing Newberry College back to its original home. 

It may be worth while to put on record the fact that the 
first four months of the session of 1877-78, the first after the 
■return to Newberry, were spent in the rooms now occupied by 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 715 

Mr. Salter as a photograph gallery, on Pratt Street, which 
were given, free of charge, by Mr. Geo. S. Mower. 

On July 19, 1877, the corner-stone of the new building was 
laid, and in February, 1878, it was so far completed as to 
permit of occupancy, and since that time the exercises have 
been regularly continued. 

Since the founding of the College, one hundred and two 
young men have been graduated, the first graduation being in 
1869. Of this number seven are dead. Of the living ninety- 
seven alumni, twenty-eight are farmers and merchants, sixteen 
are teachers, ten are physicians, eleven are lawyers and thirty - 
two are clergymen or in the course of preparation for the 
ministry. 

The College has a well-selected library of 7,500 volumes; 
a valuable and interesting collection of mineralogical and nat- 
ural history specimens, known as the Sifiey Museum; chemical 
and philosophical apparatus; two literary societies, which meet 
weekly in well furnished halls, and other appliances for doing 
first-class work. 

There are two departments in the College— Preparatory and 
Collegiate. The Preparatory course covers a period of three 
years, and is designed to fit young men for College or for 
active life. The Collegiate Department is divided into two 
courses — the Classical, leading to the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts, and the Philosophical, leading to that of Bachelor of 
Philosophy. 

This is the list of Presidents, Professors and Tutors of 
Newberry College from its inception to January, 1893: 

1858, 1859, I860— Rev. T. Stork, D. D., President. Robert 
Garliogton, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical 
Philosophy. O. B. Mayer, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Min- 
eralogy and Geology. Rev. J. Bachman, D. D., LL.D., Lec- 
turer on Natural History. Rev. J. A. Brown, A. M., Professor of 
Hebrew and Sacred Greek. Charles A. Stork, A. B., Professor 
of Greek. Rev. M. Whittle, A. B., Adjunct Professor of Latin 
and Principal of Preparatory Department. A. P. Pifer, Pro- 
fessor, 1860, 1861. 

Under the Presidency of Rev. J. P. Smeltzer, 1861 to 1877 — 
Rev. J. P. Smeltzer, D. D., President. D. Arrington, A. M., 
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. O. B. Mayer, 



71 C ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

M. D., ProfesHor of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Gi^ology. Ki>v. 
J. McNeille Turner, D. D., Professor of Greek, LSG'J to 1871. 
J. E. Housenl, Tutor, Preparatory Department, 1800 to 1872. 
Rev. J. M. Sclireckhise, A. M., Professor of Ancient Language?^ 
1802-1805. Webster Eichelberger, Principal Preparatory De- 
))artment, 1802-1804. Rev. J. 11. C. Schierenbeck, Professor of 
(Jerman Language and Literature, 1871-1878. E. J. Dreher, 
Tutor, Preparatory Department, 1872-1875. Rev. G. W. Hol- 
land, Professor of' Greek and Latin, 1874-1878. John C. Wat- 
kins, Assistant Preparatory Doj)artinent, 1874-1870. Rev. J. F. 
Probst, A. M., Profe.ssor of German, 187(). D. R. Rusby, Prin- 
cipal Pn'))arat()ry Department and Assistant Professor of Latin, 
1870. 

Under the Presidency of Rev. G. W. Holland, D. D., 1878 to 
1 802-Rev. G. W. Holland, D. D., President, 1878-1892. Geo. D. 
Haltiwanger, A. M., Princi])al Preparatory Department and Ad- 
junct Professor of Mathematics, 1877-1871), George R. Cromer, 
Professor of Latin, History and Political Science, 1877-1881. 
Rev. S. S. Rahn, A. M., Professor of Greek and German, 1879- 
1882. (). B. Mayer, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, 
Geology, Physiology and Hygiene, 1878-1892. George G. Sale, 
A. M., Professor of Mathematics, 1879-1881. R. H. Clarkson, 
A. M., Princpal Preparatory Department, 1879. R. W. Rittk\ 
A. M., Profes.sor of Latin and History, 1880-1884. C. W. Welch, 
A. M., Professor of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, 1881- 
1885. E. H. Aull, A. M., Principal Preparatory Department, 
1881-1882. Rev. J. Steck, D. D., Professor of History and Po- 
litical Science, 1883. Rev. Holmes Dysinger, A. M., Professor 
of Ancient Languages, 1883-1888. Hart Gilbert, A.M., Prin- 
cipal Preparatory Dei)artment, 1884. Rev. A. G. Voigt, 
A. M., Profes.sor Modern Languages, 1885-1889. Rev. J. B. 
Fox, A. M., Ph.D., Professor Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 
1885-1892. Thos. H. Dreher, A. M., Principal Prei>aratory 
Department, 1885-1889. W. C. Schott, Princi])al Business De- 
partment, 1890 1891. Rev. A. J. Bowers, A. M., Professor 
Ancient Languages, 1890-1892. Arthur Kibler, A. B., Professor 
Latin, 1892. A. S. Laird, Principal Preparatory Department, 
1890-1891. G. E. Werber, A. B., Principal Preparatory De- . 
partment, 1884. Rev. W. K. Sligh, A. B., Princi])al Preparatory 
Departm3nt, 1891-1892. A. \V. Fogle, Preparatory Department, 



ANNALS Ol" NEWBERKV. 



717 



189L-18iJ2. ^V. G. Houseal, M. D., Lecturer oa Physiology and 
Hygiene, 1892. Kev. S. P. Hughes, A. M., Professor of His- 
tory and English Literature, 1877. 

Dr. O. B. Mayer, Sr., was a member of the Faculty from 
the founding of the College, except the few years the College 
was conducted at Walhalla, until his deatli in 1891. His son, 
Dr. O. B. Mayer, Jr., now lills his place. 

llev. Dr. G. W. Holland, the present President of Newberry 
College, should have bec^n mentioned in that part of this book 
which records the names of those who served th(^ Confederacy. 
Though he is a native of Virginia, ho has long been a valued 
and true citizen of Newberry, and now wears an empty sleeve 
xis a constant testimony to service in the times that tried 
men. At the outbreak of the war ho enlisted as a private 
soldier in the 8;kl Virginia llegiment, of the "Stonewall 
Brigade," and served tljo Confederacy until he lost his left 
arm at Fairfax Court House, Virginia. H^^ was afterwards 
commissioned by the Governor of Virginia as Ca])tain of the 
^'lieserves." 

He was a brav(^ and true soldier, and has shown fidelity to 
duty in all the j)Osilions to which he has l)een called in the 
civil walks of life. 

He has been President of the College since its relocation 
at Newberry, and was several years before one of the Pro- 
fe.ssors. The College is now successful under his administra- 
tion. K. H. A. 

The Old Newbehky Academy. 

In the midst of the Halcyon Grove once stood a long, low, 
■f^heap, wooden building, known hs the Newberry Academy. It 
was about a half mile from the Court House, and just south 
of the Greenville and Columbia Rail Road, and east of the 
Higgins' Ferry Road. The Newberry Academy was built by 
voluntary subscrij)tions and went into operation in ISOf). Rev. 
John Foster and Rev. Charles Strong were amongst the earliest 
teachers. Chancellor Job Johnstone, F. B. Higgins, JohnBnlton 
O'Neall and Drayton Nance here rc^ceived their Academical ed- 
ucation. It is elsewhere state 1 in these Annals that a lottery 
was authorized to be held for tuu bonelit of the Academy, at 



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AxVNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



two different times. All escheated propert}' was vested in the 
Trustees. 

This Academy was incorporated in ISS-l, having for Trustees 
Frederick Nance, John Belton O'Neal!, Job Johnstone. Y. J. 
Harrington, James Fernandes, Thos. Pratt, W. Wilson. Burr 
Johnstone and F. B. Higgins. 

Mr. Silas Johnstone is our authority for stating that the 
first Academy building stood opposite to where W. T. Tar- 
rant's residence now stands. It was a large two-story wooden 
house. The first floor was devoted to school purposes; the 
upper one was used by the Masons as a Masonic Hall. The 
ii'i-'^ floor, according to the same authority, was also ."ome- 
times used as a Thespian Hall. The great religious revival 
of 1830 disorganized the society and caused its discontinuance; 
many of the Thespians becoming converted and joining the 
Church. Soon after this revival, and as one of the fruits of 
it, the Baptist Church was organized and the house of Avorshij) 
built. 

The teachers succeeding Foster and Strong were Mr. Mc- 
Guinnis, Rev. James W. Alexander, then Mr. Corbin. Col. 
Simeon Fair was a pupil of Mr. Alexander's. Gen. Young 
Fair, once Minister to Berlin, was also a pupil at this Acad- 
emy. In 1827 Mr. Parker taught here awhile; then followed 
Samuel Pressley, assisted by Solomon Pope, John Pressley and 
Jefferson Fair. In 1828 James Divver was Master. Henry 
Summer, afterwards a lawyer at Newberry, also taught here. 

As pupils at various times at this Academy were Silas 
Johnstone, Dr. W. F. Pratt, Robert Pratt, Simeon Pratt. I^obert 
and Andrew Jackson Maxwell, John and Henry Fernandes, 
George Alexander and C. D. Pope, James Henderson, Reuben 
and John Lyles^ J. and W. Caldwell, Robert and David 
Holman. 

In 1834 the Male Academy was transferred to a building 
on the lot where now stands the Jail, and here Silas L. Heller 
taught during that year. George Parker succeeded him; and 
also Dr. D. Dobson. 

After the transference of the Male Academy in 1834, an- 
other building was erected at Halcyon Grove, which was used 
as a Female School until 1830. The first teacher w\as Miss 
Boyd, sister to D. B. Boyd, President of the old Bank of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 71U' 

Newberry. She was assisted by Mrs. Saxon as a music 
teacher. The Female Academy in 1839 was moved to a house- 
on Dr. Thompson's place on Pratt Street, and the building at 
Halcyon Grove was reconverted to the purposes of a Male 
School under the charge of Kev. Wiley, an Episcopal minister. 
Mr. Leonard Williams succeeded him, assisted by James M. 
Baxter. They were followed by Jame■^^ M. Crosson, Principal, 
and Major George James, Assistant. Then followed Joseph S.- 
Reid; then Wm. Hood, who was the last of the dominies in 
this venerable institution. It seems to me that W. J. Duffie- 
and Thomas Duckett also taught here, but I am not sure. 

I fear that there are several inaccuracies in this sketch, but 
I have not the data at hand to enable me to do better. 

Amongst the many pupils of this School, besides those al- 
ready named, I may be permitted to mention W. F. Nance,. 
D. C. Suber (Little X) and Henry Suber, John C. McLemore,^. 
James D. Nance, W. D. Rutherford, R. C. MafPett, James Stew- 
art and J. A. Rutherford, who have passed to the silent land. 
And there are many, many others gone. 

After the removal of Newberry College to Walhalla in 1868 
Capt. A. P. Pifer taught a successful male school in the Bap- 
tist Church annex until July, 1869. He was followed by Rev. 
J. B. Hillhouse for one year at his residence, the place now 
owned by John C. Wilson. 

In 1870 a lot on the corner of Harrington and Crenshaw 
streets was bought and a new Male Academy building was 
erected, and here the exercises of the school were begun in 
January, 1871, with James C. Hardin as teacher, with about 
one hundred pupils. The names of his successors that I now 
recall were Wm. M. Brooks, R. H. Clarkson, James P. Kinard. 
John P. Glasgow and Miss Willie Cozby. And that w^as the 
last of the separate existence of the Newberry Male Academy,, 
as it ^ceased to live upon the establishment of the Graded 
Schools, and the house and lot were sold. 

A brick building, long used as a Female Academy, near the 
Methodist Church, was built some years before the war, and 
some able teachers wielded the ferule within its walls, among 
whom may be mentioned Rev. Wm. Berly, Wm. Hood, Mrs. Susan, 
Anderson, Capt. A. P. Pifer and Miss Octavia Garlington, who- 
were the last. 



720 annals of newberry. 

Prosperity High School. 
In the spring of 1879, the citizens of Prosperity, realizing the 
importance of education, became concerned in the establishing 
of an institution in their midst that should yield to them and 
their children the benefits that always flow from the cultivation 
of the mind. Accordingly, at a meeting held some time in 
the month of May, attended by a large number of representa- 
tive citizens, it was agreed to establish a school to be known 
as the Prosperity High School. Looking to this end an Assj- 
-ciation was formed, a charter was obtained, and the books for 
the subscribing of stock were opened. Maj. P. E. Wise Wri.^ 
President of the Association. In a very short time about one 
hundred shares of ten dollars each were taken, nearly every 
citizen taking one share or more. The racney thus raised 
was to be used for erecting and equipping a suitable build- 
ing. It was decided to entrust the management of the school 
to a board of trustees, consisting of live members of the asso- 
ciation. In 1880 the number was increased to nine. Rev. 
J. C. Boyd, Ftev. J. Hawkins, D. D., Maj. G. G. DeWalt, Capt. 
Henry S. Boozer and B. L. Dominick were the first trustees. 

The board, after making a careful survey of all that was to 
be considered in connection with the opening of the school, 
decided to begin the regular work of teaching in September 
following. C. W. Welch, a graduate of Newberry College, 
class of '79, was elected Principal and Mrs. Jane A. Long, 
who had been teaching in Prosperity a number of years, was 
<;hosen assistant. Until the new building was ready, the exercises 
of the school were hold in a very old, uncomfortable house near 
the old Prosperity Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. 
In this house, during several previous year?, J. B. Lathan, a 
srraduate of Erskine College, had taught quite successfully. 

At the same time that the association elected a board of 
trustees, it appointed a building committee. This committee 
purchased a lot conveniently located, and during the course 
of the following spring and summer a large, substantial two- 
room frame building was erected and supplied Avith modern 
desks at a total cost of about $1,000. 

During the time that the new building was being talked 
about, planned and erected, many disappointments and heart- 
.aches were experienced by those who loved the school for the 



ANIfALS OF NEWBERRY. 721 

good it was to do. And when, in the fall of 1880, this new 
building was occupied for the first time, all felt that a long 
stride forward had been made toward the goal of their hopes. 
The town was united in the endeavor to make the school a 
blessing as well as a pride. About this time there were many 
whiskey saloons in the towr\ and the friends of the High- 
School realized that, to have a successful school, the saloons 
must be closed up. Accordingly a vote was taken to decide 
the matter. All the better class of citizens rallied around the 
cause of decency and intellectual freedom, and undor the bat- 
tle cry, "Prohibition and the High School," w n a decide d 
victory. So marked was the improvement in all re-jects that 
Prosperity became a new town, and before the cose of its second 
year the Prosperity High School ha^l euroUoi one hundred and 
thirty-tivo pupils, about twenty-five of whom were non-re.-idents. 

This institution has not been free of trouble.^, but the greet 
principle for which it has so constantly j-tood has alw »ys been 
the rallying point of its friends; and to-day, 1S02, it gives 
promise of a long lease of fresh life and renewed vigor. 

Scores of young men and women have been prepared for 
college or the active duties of life during the thirteen years of its 
existence. It has truly been a bles.'^ing to many. In the coun- 
try districts around the town, other schools of the same char- 
acter have been organized, and the time is fast coming when 
the lower part of Newberry County will be one of the leading 
communities of the country for all that makes for the better- 
ment of mankind. For much of this, the Prosperity High 
School may truthfully, yet modestly, claim the honor. The 
work has always been t-o thoroughly done that graduates of 
this institution could easily enter the Sophomore class of th*> 
best Southern colleges. 

As a matter of interest, a list of the principals of the school 
is subjoined: C. W. Welch, September, 1879, to June, 1881; 
D. 6. Lake, 1881-82; J. S. Perrin, 1882-83; J. C. Cork, 
1883-84; J. A. Huffard, 1884-85; A. S. Scheetz, 1885-87; 
A. J. Bowers, 1887-88; J. E. Brown, 1888-89; *F. E. Dreher. 
1889; fJ. T. Moore, 1890; E. O. Counts, 1891-92. 

♦Resigned in the winter of 1889, and E. O. Counts elected to fill the 
tinexpired term — the latter declining re-election in 1890. 

fResigned soon on account of ill health, and E. O. Counts was elected. 
2 Y 



722 axnals of newberry. 

Mt. Tabor High School. 
This school is situated on the Columbia, Newberry and 
Laurens Eailroad, one mile from Little Mountain and one 
mile from Slighs. The present commodious school building 
"Was erected in 1884 There was at that time a school house 
about a half mile from the present building. This school had 
been in operation for about eight years prior to the organiza- 
tion of the Mt. Tabor High School, and had been taught by 
Geo. M. Wilson, P. H. E. Derrick, and others. W. K. Sligh 
was teaching near Mt. Tabor at the time the new building 
was erected, and when it was completed he moved into it. 
The new building had become a necessity, as at that time 
there were more than one hundred children in attendance 
upon the school. There are three rooms to the building, and 
the school is taught by two or three teachers as the attend- 
ance may demand. The following have been the principals 
of the school since its organization: W. K. Sligh, E. O. 
Counts, E. S. Dreher, Eugene Smith, W. A. Counts — the lattter 
of whom is now the successful principal of the school. This 
school has been a great boon to this community, and in ad- 
dition has prepared many boys and girls for college. The 
name is taken from the Lutheran Church of the same name, 
which is located at the same place. The average yearly at- 
tendance exceeds one hundred children. It is governed by a 
Board of Trustees who are elected by the patrons. The public 
funds are supplemented by tuition charges, and the school is 
run nine months in the year. Would that we had a school 
like this in every community in the county. 

Bethel Academy, Pomaria. 

The situation and surroundings of this Academy, near Po- 
maria, are quite romantic. It is within a half mile of the 
town, just in the borders of a beautiful grove and near a 
spring of clear, cool water, which gushes out from among the 
rocks at the foot of a hill. 

Few academies or high schools in the county can make a 
better showing than this. The citizens of the neierhborhood 
soon after the wai', seeing and feeling the great importance 
of education, united with the Masonic order, the Grange and 
the Knights of Jericho, and built a school-house sixty b; 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBBY. 728 

twenty-six feet, with a secood or. upper story, the latter for 
the use of the orders mebtioned. The lower story was the 
school room and had blackboards surrounding the entire inside 
of the building. The several School Commissioners, in their 
rounds looking after the interests of the schools, have pro- 
nounced this house superior to any in the country parts of thy 
County. 

According to the best recollection of the writer, the schools 
at Bethel have been taught in the order named by the follow- 
ing experienced and educated teachers: Mis3 E. A. Souter, 
Lexington; Capt. John F. Banks, Newberry; Prof. D. Benja- 
min Busby, now of Edgefield; J. M. Alewine, lately deceased, 
Texas; J. B. O'Neall Holloway, now of Orangeburg; Mrs. S. M. 
B. Wright, deceased; Miss Mattie Steck, now Mrs. Jaynes, of 
Walhalla; Miss Hennie Boozer, now the wife of Dr. W. D. 
Senn, of Newberry County; Rev. W. K. Sligh, now Professor 
in Newberry College; Miss Alma Kibler, now Mrs. R. F. 
Bryant, of Orangeburg; Prof. Burr H. Johnstone, now teach 
ing at Allendale; W. B. Boinest, of Pomaria; Miss Lula Teague, 
now of Johnston; Mis3 Ella Belle Shirey, now one of the 
leading teachers of Mount Amoena Female Seminary, Mt.. 
Pleasant, N. C. 

The following graduates from Newberry College may bo 
mentioned as having been prepared here to enter that institu- 
tion: L. E. Busby, '75, minister, Leesville; J. B. O'Neall Hol- 
loway, '75, farmer, Orangeburg County; J. B. Boinest, '77, 
since deceased; J. Eusebius Berly, '79, minister, deceased; John 
F. Hobbs, '79, Australia; C. W. Welch, '79, professor Clemsou 
College; W. W. Berly, '82, farmer, Pomaria; E. O. Counts,' 83, 
Piiacipal Prosperity High School; Sidney T. Riser, '84, min- 
ister, died at Staunton, Va. ; Henry P. Counts, '85, minister, 
Haralson, Ga. ; E. O. Hentz, '85, physician, Walton; Monroe 
J. Epting, '86, minister, St. Luke's. 

The following named, j^repared at this institution, are now 
(1892) in the Sophomore class of Newberry College: Richard 
H. Hipp, Henry C. Holloway, Robert H. W^elch. 

It is due to Prof. D. B. Busby to say that he taught this 
school several years, and that he prepared for college all the 
graduates mentioned to 1880, including also some who were 
not graduates of Newberry: W. C. Drelier, once Professor in 



724 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Roanoke College, and recently engaged in literary work in 
New York; Paul D. Hyler, who went to Wofford, afterwards 
fttudied law and died soon after entering upon the practice of 
his profession; L. B. Folk, who entered the Junior class in 
South Carolina College, but left college, read medicine and is 
now a practicing physician in Columbia. To Prof. Busby is 
due also the credit for the greater part of the school work 
done here, and I feel sure that a grateful people will remem- 
ber him always kindly for the part he took in moulding the 
minds of their children, not only through the books used and 
taught, but also for his influence in helping them to a high 
plane of character and sense of honor. 

Pagesville Academy. 

This institution, which did such good work for awhile and 
gave promise of many years of usefulness, was established in 
the year 1848. It was situated on the line now traversed by 
the Laurens Railroad, about a mile from Gary's Lane and 
within a quarter of a mile from the present residence of Capt. 
Thompson Conner, in a lovely grove of oaks to the right 
or north of the railroad and the public road. The Academy 
owned one hundred acres of land, held in the name of seven 
trustees, viz: Dr. John K. Gary, Hilliary Gary, Dr. Rush Gary. 
J. J. Reeder, J. K. Schumpert, Col. Geo. S. Cannon and a Mr. 
Davis. On the grounds were one four-room cottage for pro- 
fessors, and also necessary outbuildings for other purposes. The 
Academy building was about seventy-five by fifty feet, and was 
divided into two apartments, one for large boys and one for 
girls and young ladies. 

The following eminent educators were successively masters 
of the Academy; Professor S. E. Graydon; A. H. Little, grad- 
uate of the Citadel and gallant member of the Palmetto Regi 
ment during the War with Mexico; Jas. Watson; W. D. Reeder; 
Dr. Memory Bonner, now of Gaffney City; Robert Pasley and 
Zachariah C. Wright. 

The war closed this school and its labors were never resumed 
thereafter. 

This was a High School, and prepared many well-known 
citizens of Newberry for entrance into the South Carolina Col- 
lego. Among these may be mentioned Col. R. C. Watts: Maj. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 125 

W. T. Gary; Capl. J. W. Garj-; Dr. William Williams; O. L. 
Schumpert, Esq., Solicitor of Seventh Circuit (1892); Dr. John 
I. Schumpert, of Louisiana, and Dr. Spencer G. Welch. 

The Rutherford School. 

The people of the Enoree section of Newberry County, 
realizing the necessity of having better schools, procured 
the signatures of a majority of the freeholders of the com- 
munity to a petition asking the Legislature of South Carolina 
to set off a certain portion of Newberry County into a special 
school district^ to be known as the Rutherford School District. 
The petition was granted, and on December 22nd, 1888, Ruth- 
erford School District was formed. The qualified voters have 
the power to vote a 3 -mill supplemental tax for educational 
purposes. The following gentlemen were, by Act of the 
Legislature, made trustees of the school: Joseph L. Keitt, 
Thomas W. Keitt, Thomas W. Hutchinson, John A. Cromer 
and F. W. Higgins. Mr. Higgins has since resigned, and 
J. Owens Turnipseed was elected in his place. The trustees 
and patrons working together have built a school house cost- 
ing §400, and have acquired title to two acres of land; thus 
securing a permanent location and a good building for school 
purposes. This school was first taught by Thos. W. Keitt 
and Miss Ellen Suber. Mr. Keitt resigned in 1892, having 
been elected to the office of School Commissioner for New- 
berry County, and he was succeeded by J. O. Turnipseed, 
who is also assisted by Miss Ellen Suber. The school has 
been quite successful. 

About the same time that the Rutherford School District 
was organized, another district, known as the Broad River 
District, was also organized, mainly through the efforts of 
Col. D. A. Dickert. It is also supported by taxation. 
Tha common school system of the State is good enough a8 
far as it goes, but in order to realize the full benefit from 
this fund it is necessary to supplement it by local taxation, 
or tuition charges. 

We have here two cases of additional taxation and one of 
tuition charges, and in all three the schools are prospering. 

The great need of this country is more and better schools 
of a high order in our rural districts within the reach of all 
children of school age. 



720 annals of newberry. 

, Ne>vberry Graded Schools. 

Grafted schools, for both white and colored have been estab- 
lished in the town of Newberry, after a full discussion of the 
system by the press and the people, and they have proven 
too be a great and decided success. 

The schools are supported by taxation and tuition is free to 
all children within the corporate limits of the town. There are 
seven trustees, J. F. J. Caldwell, Geo. B. Cromer, W. H. Wal 
lace, J. K. P. Goggans, J. S. Cozby, Geo. S. Mower and N. B. 
Mazyck, who are life members, and four trustees who are to 
be elected annually by the people. L. M. Speers, W. E. Pel- 
ham, Alan Johnstone and J. K. Glider were elected in 1890, 
and re-elected in 1891 and 1892. The first superintendent was 
J. Fleming Brown. He was succeeded in September, 1891, 
by Frank Evans, who is now superintendent for his second 
year. 

The Graded School building is a large three-story structure, 
and was completed in 3891 at a cost of $10,500, which in- 
cluded furniture and the heating arrangement. The first ses- 
sion of the white school was held in 1890 in the old Female 
Academy and the Thompson house on Pratt street. 

The Literature. 

The literature of Newberry has not been mentioned hereto- 
fore, except incidentally, but I think it deserves a page or 
two of its own. 

Besides the Annals of Newberry, Judge O'Neall wrote and 
published the "Bench and Bar of South Carolina," which is 
a valuable work of its kind. He also wrote and published in 
a Southern Magazine some interesting and valuable contri 
butions to Revolutionary History. H. H. Caldwell published 
two small volnmes of poems during his too short life, which 
gave promise, especially his last work, of ability to do much 
better work in the future. J. F. J. Caldwell's History of 
McGowan's Brigade, to which reference has already been made, 
is a valuable contribution to the history of the war, the merits 
of which will be recognized some day. Two volumes of poems 
have been, published by the author of these Annals, and he 
also aided largely in the preparation of Stephens' School His- 
tory of the United States, which has been adopted as a text- 



AKNAL. OF NEWBEBRY. 727 

book for schools in some of the States. Mrs. L. M. Sale pub- 
lished a novel, "The Saddest of All is Loving," which I havp 
read and found fully equal to many others of greater repuia- 
tipn. Paul Johnstone's work on the Electoral question showed 
much lability, and had great influence at the time it wap 
written and published. Silas Johnstone has prepared and pub- 
lished a valuable Equity Digest, if it be proper to include a 
work of that character under the head of Literature. He hap 
also written many humorous sketches for Porter's Spirit of the 
Times, some of which were published in book form together 
with stories by other and different writers. My old friend, 
Dr. O. B. Mayer, with others, has been mentioned in another 
place. But, so far as I know, Newberry has produced only on(P 
man who has made literature a profession, and he is J. Wood 
Davidson. And he left the County so long ago that he 
is scarcely known by any man living in it. His book, "The 
Writers of the South," is a good review of the labors of those 
who had worked in the literary field of the South at the time 
it was written and published. His "Poetry of the Future" 
shows deep study and thought, and to the student of the sub- 
ject on which it treats, I doubt not, it affords many valuable 
hints. Mr. Davidson himself, if not a poet, is a good writer 
of verse. And so is Mrs. Mary A. Evans, though she has 
never written a book. 

John B. Carwilo has recently published a very delightful 
book, "Reminiscences of Newberry," which ought to be in the 
library of every citizen of the County. The style is admirable, 
and some of the incidents related are very touching. 

John C. McLemore, who was once connected with the Press 
of Newberry, as associate editor of the Conservatist, deserves 
more than the mere mention of his name. He was a young 
lawyer of great promise; a graceful and forcible writer; a brave 
and gallant soldier; and a poet, who might have become emi- 
nent in the field of letters. I have heard it said that his verses 
in W. Gilmore Simms' "War Poetry of the South," published 
soon after the war, were the best in the book. 

One writer who lived for some years at Newberry, though 
not a native of the town nor of the county, is fully as worthy 
of notice as an author, a lover of literature and of letters, as 
any I have mentioned. She has written and published three 



728 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

books, not large, not great books, of the fama of which the 
world is full, but good books. The first, published in 1875, 
by J. B. Lippincott & Co , was a little story book for chiJ- 
dren, called "The Golden Fence." The next "A Sequence of 
Songs," was published by W. J. Duffie in 1882. The third, 
'^A Hero's Last Days," was also published by Mr. Duffie, in 
1883. Besides these, this same author has written "Echoes of 
Holy Week," "Songs of a New Age," and others, which I 
have never seen. These books were all published anonymously, 
and it may be that I ought not to mention the name of the 
author here. But I feel sure that it will do no harm to make 
her name known. Her work is good, and of a quality, in style 
and sentiment, of which she need not be ashamed. The author 
of the books mentioned is Miss Mary Fowles. I give here a 
poem from "A Sequence of Songs": 

DEAD CAROLINA. 
Methought, erewhile, I saw a funeral pyre, 
Like that sad mount that Tyrian Dido reared; 
And on the pile were laid full many forms 
of those I knew, all pale and cold in death. 
As, in the Niobean group, there showed 
One female figure towering o'er the rest, 
But with a beauty e'en more terrible 
In the awful dignity of death; — 

For, — ere by death from worse than death relieved, — 
Like Niobe, she saw her children die, 
One, then another, till her own turn came. 
Yet some were left to mourn, and these stood round 
Weeping. And you might see the smoking piles — 
Their sacrifices offered at her tomb — 
And you might know them by their stricken mien 
Among the pitying or the jeering crowd. 
And hereupon, methought I saw a maid 
With calm and even tread approach the pyre 
And lay a wreath upon it. Then I asked, 
Who is this maiden with the face unmoved 
By the conflicting passions of the crowd ? 
And one replied: The Muse of History 
Bringing her solemn tribute to the dead. 
But ah, thought I, no tribute ever can 
Wake her to life again. And then I heard 
The mournful moving music of the dirge: 

Thou liest low to rise no more, 

All covered with thy children's gore, 
Carolina ! 

Thy foes around thee mocking stand, 

Thou liest still, nor movest thy hand. 
Dead Carolina ! 

Thy very soul and life are fled. 

No mourning bringeth back the dead, 
Carolina ! 

O Carolina of the Past ! 



AJINALS OF NEWBEJBRY. 729^ 

For thee no resurrection blast 

Shall sound. This sleep shall be thy last. 
Dead Carolina ! 
And here the children of the dead advanced 
And, with a voice all choked with sobs and groans, 
Said: Vale, vale, in eternum vale ! 

Then next methought the hills, dales, woods and streams, 
And all the land that once had owned her sway. 
But ne'er should own it more, gave back the voice 
Of Vale, vale, in eternum vale ! 
And then the people out of every nation 
Who stood around, some mocking and some motirning, 
Cried: Vale, vale, in eternum vale ! 



The !N ewspapers. 

I may say that the newspapers of the County have always- 
been equal in merit and ability to any published in any 
County in the State. I give a list of them with names of 
editors and publishers, prepared by Mr. R. H. Greneker, Sr.^ 
who, himself, has labored for many years in that field and is 
a graceful and pleasant writer: 

Newberry was without the light of the Press until 1849, 
when Mr. James H. Giles began the publication of the New- 
berry Sentinel, with Gen. A. C. Garlington as associate editor 
during the last two years that he published the paper. It was 
afterwards sold to James M. Crosson and Thomas P. Slider,, 
who disposed of it to Jos. S. Reid, then publishing the Weekly 
Neu'berrian, which was started in 1852. Mr. Reid carried out 
the contracts of the Sentinel and discontinued it in 1853. He 
then changed the Newberrian to the Mirror. In 1854 the 
Mirror was made a tri-weekly, and a year afterwards Geo. 
A. C. Garlington was associate editor. In 185G the Mirror 
was sold to Capt. Wm. F. Nance and John C. McLemore, and 
the name of the paper changed to The Conservatist. This 
paper passed into the possession of Col. James D. Nance and 
Silas ^Johnstone, Esq. Soon after the beginning of the war 
Col. Nance volunteered and vient with the army to Virginia, 
the paper was discontinued and its publication never resumed, 
Col. Nance having been killed during the war. 

In the year 1855 Thos. P. Slider illuminated the land with, 
the rays of the Rising Sun, and later associated Thos. F» 
Greneker with him in the business. Mr. Slider afterwards 
sold his interest to R. H. Greneker, who continued it in a 
diminished size until the close of the war, when it was pub- 



730 ANNALS OF NEWBERBY. 

lished for a short while as a triweekly under the name of the 
Newberry Herald. The tri -weekly was discontinued and the 
paper published for a long time by Messrs. T. F. and R. H. 
Greneker. In 1873 the junior partner withdrew from the paper 
and Thos. F. Greneker, the Nestor of the Newberry Press, 
continued its publication until failing health caused his retire- 
ment in 1885. During his sole ownership of the paper, he 
had associated with him at different times, Ira B. Jones, 
W. H. Wallace, the present editor of the Observer, G. B. Cromer, 
G. G. Sale and Elbert H. Aull. Mr. Wallace served on the 
paper for a considerable length of time. 

On the 14th of February, 1873, Thos. P. Slider began the 
publication of the Progressive Age, a paper devoted principally 
to the development of the County. It was soon afterwards 
purchased by R. H. Greneker, and changing the character 
somewhat, the paper was devoted to ethics in journalism. He 
cut short its bright career a few years later, not wishing the 
appearance of opposition to his brother, Thos. F. Greneker, of 
the Herald. 

On the 4th of January, 1878, the bonnie Newberry Netvs, 
by R. H. Greneker, Jr., and Wm. P. Houseal, with John A. 
Chapman as editor, made its appearance. Mr. Chapman was 
editor for one year only. This paper had a bright staff some 
time later in Milledge L. Bonham and Lewis W. Simkins, to 
whom the paper was leased, and at intervals later was edited 
by G. G. Sale and E. H. Aull. Prior to these later changes 
Mr. Houseal withdrew from the paper, and R. H. Greneker, 
Jr., was then sole editor (except when Messrs. Sale and Aull 
were on the staff) and proprietor until August, 1884, when on 
the death of Thomas Edward Greneker, a young man of great 
promise, of the Herald, the Neics and the Herald were 
united under the name of the Herald and Neirs. The paper 
passed into the hands of A. C. Jones in 1885. It was edited 
first by G. G. Sale, then by E. H. Aull, and finally by Mr. 
Jones himself, who disposed of it in March, 1887, to E. H. 
Aull and Wm. P. Houseal. 

On the 21st of April, 1881, Wm. P. Houseal began the pub- 
lication of the Lutheran Visitor at Newberry. This paper was 
established in 1868 in the interest of the General Synod of 
the Lutheran Church in the South. It has been published at 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 731 

Charleston, Salisbury, N. C, Columbia, and a year prior to its 
removal to Newberry, at Prosperity. Various eminent Lutheran 
divines have edited the paper.' Rev. J. Hawkins, D. D., the 
present editor, was appointed in 1878, and he has been assisted 
.since its removal to Newberry by Revs. F. W. E. Peschau, 
D. D., A. B. McMackin, A. G. Voigt and W. C. Schaeffer. The 
paper is now controlled by a chartered company, and since 
1887 has been published by Aull & Housea;l. 

January 11th, 1883, the Newberry Observer, under the firm 
name of Wallace, Houseal & Kinard, made its appearance. 
After awhile Wm. P. Houseal withdrew, and W. H. Wallace 
and Jas. H. M. Kinard have since conducted its publication. 

In the spring of 1885 E. H. Aull and M. S. Hallman ven- 
tured out in the Reporter at Prosperity; but in a short time 
Mr. Aull withdrew to take charge of the Newberry Herald 
and Neivs. A joint stock company was afterwards formed and 
the name of the paper changed to the Press and Be2wrter, 
with F, V. Capers as editor. 

Newberry County now has four good weekly papers. They 
are invaluable aids to a people's prosperity, and in order to 
be at their best they should be liberally sustained both by 
subscription and advertising patronage. 



732 ASNALS OF NFWBERBr. 

XII. 
INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND BENEVOLENT 

The Fair Grounds and The Newbeery Agricultural Societv. 

From the year 1840 to the breaking out of the War of 
Secession, Newberry had her Fair Grounds about half a mile 
from the Court House in the southern part of the town. These 
grounds did not belong to the Agricultural Society, but to the 
Newberry Academy, and by permission of the trustees the 
meetings of the Society were held there. The Academy build- 
ing was situated in a beautiful grove of oaks, which was 
euphoniously called Halcyon Grove. In this then lovely place 
the annual meetings of the Society were held for many years. 

The first officers of the Society were John Belton O'Neall, 
President; Dr. Geo. W. Glenn, First Vice-President; Simeon 
Fair, Second Vice-President; Lambert J. Jones, Recording Secre- 
tary; Gen. H. H. Kinard, Treasurer. Afterwards Silas John- 
atone became Recording Secretary and W. B. D'Oyley, Treas- 
urer. 

The grounds extended south and east from where the bridge 
now is over the railroad cut, far enough to include an area 
of several acres of land. Never having examined the plat, 
and not knowing the exact boundaries I cannot give them. 
The 'grove was a very inviting and lovely spot, shaded by 
many large and spreading oaks, affording a cool and delight 
ful shade in the hottest weather. A spring of cool, fresh, ever- 
flowing waters afforded an exhaustlrss supply. Here every 
year about the middle of July, the members of the Society, 
and many who were not members, met together bringing in 
their domestic animals of all kinds; fine horses, mules, jacks, 
hogs, chickens of various fancy breeds, turkeys, pigeons, ban- 
tams, etc. Specimens of sorghum, wines, oats, wheat, and all 
the various products of the agriculture of Newberry and the 
adjoining districts were on exhibition. Among the many ex- 
hibitors were S. P. Kinard, who had enormous squashes, and 
T. F. Greneker, who had mammoth tomatoes. Farm products 
were exhibited by Henry Burton, Wash Floyd, Col. J. Duckett, 



ANNALS or KEWEERRY. ^ ^ 733 

George H. Chapman, A. K. Tribble, Dennis Lkrk, Pompey 
Floyd, Maj. P. Hair, Col. John Hair, Maj. John P. Kinard, 
Gen. H.- H. Kinard, Col. Glenn, Dr. Glenn, Daniel Groggans, 
Matthias Barre, Wesley Folk, H. H. Folk, Frank Moon, Joi^n M. 
Floyd, J. S. Birge, Dr. McKellar, Ellison S. Keitt, Chance>Jlor 
Johnstone, Gen. Garlington, Gen. Williams, Joseph CaldwellL 
John A. Cannon, Wm. Ray, Dr. Rutherford, Thomas Hender-X^ 
son, Col. B. Maybin, Jesse Maybin, J. C. Hope, Dr. J. K. Gary, 
Philip Sligh, Col. B. F. G-iffin, R. C. Chapman, Isaac Herbert, 
Thos. V. Wicker, Dr. Bobo, W. B. D'Oyley, P. W. Chick, R. S. 
Chick, Jas. Fair, J. J. Kibler, Wm. Boozer, Gen. C. B. Griffin, 
Gen. James Rogers, W. W. Ren wick, J. S. Renwick, Maj. John 
Sims, Col. G. S. Cannon, Rush Gary, Dr. T. W. Thompson, Dr. 
R. P. Clark, Col. W. S. Lyles, James Gauntt, J. Adam Eichel- 
berger, B. F. Paysinger, D. L. Wicker, R. S. Phinney, Rev. 
J. J. Brantley, J. R. Leavell, J. E. Guy, Dr. Herndon, Dr. 
W. H. HarringtoD, W. R. Hentz, Bela Mangnm, Capt. James 
Maffett, Wm. Pbilson, John T. Peterson, Col. W. S. Dogan, 
Col. J. M. Maffett, Matthew Hall, J. Wistar Simpson, John 
Hopkins Williams, and many others whose names I cannot call 
to mind. 

The ladies also had many articles of domestic manufacture 
on exhibition such as blankets, quilts, netting, knitting, crochet 
work, paintings, preserves, pickles, butter, etc. Among the lady 
exhibitors were Miss McCoy, Mrs. John Kinard, Mrs. Gen. 
Kinard, Mrs. Pope, Mrs. Wm. Satterwhite, Mrs. Jobn Coate, 
Mrs. Robert Stewart, Miss Sallie Barre, Mrs. Col. Fair, Mrs. 
John Elmore, Mrs. Walter Ruff, Mrs. Dr. E. M. Bobo, Mrs. 
Lucinda Brown, Mrs. T. W. Holloway, Mrs. Charlotte Gordon, 
Miss Dallas Boyd, Mr.s. C. McLemore, Mrs. E. A. Hall, Misses 
Counts, Mrs. W. S. Sharpe, Mrs. Wm. Riser, Mrs. F. B. Higgins, 
Mrs. D. B. Pratt, Mrs. Thomas Po[<e, Mrs. Lucy Shelton, and 
others. 

There were also exhibited every year some agricultural im- 
plements and farmers' tools: Plows, harrows, grain cradles, 
etc. Reaping machines and mowers were not known here at 
that time. Jesse Senn always had on hand a grain cradle, 
and also Samuel Chapman. J. K. Schumpert had beautifully 
made fly brushes and fans; C. M. Harris chairs, and Woam & 
Kingsmore photographs. 



-;^4 ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. . 

At one of the meetings, July, 1857, a short letter was read, 
from Col. •^- F. Marshall, stating the quantity of wheat raised 
by himse'if oa two acres of land in the year 1857— signed by 
Thoma-'^ Robinson and J. B. Wilson — 37^ bushels on one acre 
and *^^2 on the other, 

-\fter the reading of the reports of the various committees, 
.lUd the annual speech by the orator chosen for the occasion, 
came the dinner, a very sumptuous and cheerful repast. 

At these meetings might be seen for many years in suc- 
cession the Founder and President of the Society, John Belton 
O'Neall; the earnest and honest Dravton Nance; the talented 
and versatile A. G. Summer; Dr. McKellar; the deep-thoughted 
Chancellor Johnstone; the practical Robert Stewart, and such 
men as Dr. Peter Moon, Dr. G. Douglass, John D. Williams, 
Robert Moorman; Wm. Summer, the horticulturist; George 
Brown, John R. Spearman, Thomas W. Holloway, and Paul 
Johnstone, the gentle and th6 good, whom to know was to 
love. These were all earnest workers and stood pre-eminent 
in the cause. 

In 1856 the President came to the determination to resign, 
but so great was the feeling in opposition to his resignation 
that he was not permitted to do so. The following, signed 
by many citizens, was sent to him: "To Hon. John Belton 
O'Neall, President N. A. S. : Dear Sir — With deep regret we 
have learned your intention of resigning the Presidency of 
the Society. In all the fulness of our hearts we would most 
respectfully entreat you not to do so. Respectfully, W. E. 
Hardy, and others, 17th July, 1856." He then determined 
to remain President to the end, and so it came about that 
he was the first and the last President the Society ever had.- 

The last meeting of the Society was held on the 21f-t and 
22nd of July, 1859. There was a great falling off in attend- 
ance and in the number of articles on exhibition; but the 
display in the Ladies' Department was more than usually fine. 
On this occasion Col. James N. Lipscomb delivered the anni- 
versary address — a good, practical, farmer-like speech, which 
was well received. The President manifested considerable 
anxiety as to the future condition and welfare of the Society, 
As it turned out, this was the last meeting of the Society. 
J. N. Lipscomb was the last orator, Silas Johnst::)ne the last 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 785 

Recording Secretary aud \V. B. D'Oyley the last Treasurer. 

April 18th, 1860, a meeting was held in the Court House, 
Dr. G. W. Glenn, President; James D. Nance, Secretary. At 
this meeting measures were adopted to raise subscriptions to 
purchase a Fair Ground and erect all necessary buildings 
thereon. J. D. Nance and two others were appointed a com- 
mittee to select a suitable lot and report. At a meeting held 
May 16th, 1860, the committee reported that a "suitable place 
had been found about three-fourths of a mile from the Court 
House, on the Higgins' Ferry Road, on land belonging to 
Judge O'Neall. They also reported that the owner would 
sell as many acres as were needed at $100 per acre, and that 
he would subscribe $100. The committee stated that this 
was the most liberal offer they had received, and recommended 
the purchase of eight acres. The report was adopted and 
$1,300 were subscribed. A new committee was then appointed 
to buy the lands for the Fair Grounds; to solicit subscrip- 
tions and to report on the first Monday in June, 1860. That 
committee was Washington Floyd, Robert Spearman and J. D. 
Nance, and twenty-one others from various parts of the Dis- 
trict. That committee never reported. The old Agricultural 
Society, after twenty years of a useful career, closed its ex- 
istence in the midst of wild and intense political excitement 
and dreadful anticipation of war. 

In the year 1878, the Newberry Agricultural and Mechan- 
ical Association was organized as a joint stock company. 
The officers were elected on August 19th, 1878, as follows: 
President, John C. Wilson; 1st Vice-President, Thos. W. Hol- 
loway; 2nd Vice-President, John McCarley; 3d Vice-President, 
John R. Spearman, Sr. ; 4th Vice-President, W. D. Hardy; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. S. Mower; Executive- Committee, 
A. J. Kilgore, Alan Johnstone, J. A. Sligh, S. A. Hunter, 
M. Wer'ts. 

The first fair of this new Association was held on November 
20th and 21st, 1878, in the buildings and grounds at the 
corner of Pratt and McKibben Streets. It was a success. 
The second fair was a greater success. It was held in Octo- 
ber, 1879, at the grounds on the eastern end of Pratt Street, 
which the Association in that year had purchased and fitted 
up with all necessary buildings. There were nearly one 



738 AKNAL8 OF NEWBERP.Y. 

thousand entries at this fair, about one hundred more than 
the first fair, and six hundred dollars in premiums were 
awarded. 

Good fairs were held each year until October, 1885, which 
^sras the last one. It was found that the investment did not 
pay the investors for the trouble and expense involved and 
the property was sold, and now there is no Agricultural Fair 
nor Society in the County. The Farmers' Alliance being 
composed of farmers, one might suppose it to be somewhat 
similar in character and purpose to Agricultural Societies, but 
they appear to be very different. The one is to encourage 
the production of the best crops and stock; the other is a 
combination of farmers to protect themselves against others 
in their warfare in the world. 

But I am glad to know that the old fashioned Fairs and 
Societies still survive, though Newberry has none. The State 
Agricultural Fair, held annually in Columbia, has for many 
years been a flourishing institution, and the exhibits ever}' 
year are very creditable to the State and its advance in agri- 
culture and the various domestic arts. Mr. Thomas W. Hol- 
loway, its very eflficient Secretary and Treasurer, has held that 
position for about fifteen years, and it is exceedingly doubtful 
whether any one in the State could better fill the place. He 
Hs a native ot Newberry, and it is very pleasant to the histo- 
rian of the county to be able to speak well of those who have 
•gone from amongst us and have made their homes elsewhere, 
although in Mr. Holloway's case he still retains his residence 
•at Pomaria in this county. 

The Banks. 
Previous to the year 1853 there were no banking facilities 
in Newberry. In that year the Bank of Newberry was organ- 
ized, the capital stock being $300,000, which was increased in 
(probably) 1856 to $400,000. B. D. Boyd, who is now living 
at ^n advanced age in San Fernando, California, was its first 
and only president. Thomas W. Holloway, of Pomaria, S. C, 
was its first cashier, and wa'i succeeded in 1850 by Robert L. 
McCaughrin, of Newberry, who was at the time of his elec- 
tion just twenty-one years of age. Mr. McCaughrin resigned 
-in 1860 and was succeeded by W. H. C. Dudley, who came 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 737 

from Americus, Ga., and when the recent war had about 
brought the business of the bank to a close he returned to 
that place, and is still residing there. 

The Bank of Newberry did a successful and profitable 
business until the recent war, by the disastrous termination 
of which it, in common with all other banks in the State, lost 
the greater part of its property. It finally paid all its debts 
and returned to the stockholders about fifteen per cent. 
($00,000) of their original stock. 

The National Bank of Newberry was organized May Cth, 

1871, with the following Board of JJirector^: U. L. McCaugh- 
rin, Jno. B. Carwile, G. T. Scott, Jno. T. Peterson, Robert 
Moorman, J. N. Martin, AV. H. W.bb, J. B. Palmer, Y. J. 
Pope. The officers elected were: l\. L. McCaughrin, Presi- 
dent; Jno. B, Carwile, Cashier, and T. S. Duncan, Assistant 
Cashier. Mr. Carwile resigned the oflice of Ca-Lier in 1884 
on account of failing health; T. S. Duncan was elected in his 
place, and T. J. McCrary succeeded Mr. Duncan as Assistant 
Cashier. Mr. McCaughrin has been annually re-el'>cted Pres- 
ident of the Board. In 1892 Mr. McCrary resigucd as As- 
sistant Cashier and was succeeded by J. W. M. Simmons. 
The present officers are: R. L. McCaughrin, President; T. S. 
Duncan, Cashier; J. W. M. Simmons, Assistant Cashier; John 
S. Carwile, Book-keeper; Richard H. Wearn, Collector. 

The original capital stock was $100,000, which was, in 

1872, increased to $150,000. The charter of the bank having 
expired, it was renewed May 0th, ISDl, and the bank re- 
organized with the following Board of Directors: R. L. Mc- 
Caughrin, Jno. B. Carwile, J. N. Martin, J. O. Peoples, J. F. J. 
Caldwell, R. H. Wright, James Mcintosh, M. A. Reuwick, 
R. C. Carlisle. The three first named were members of the 
board Vhen the bank was first organized in 1871 and have 
served continuously since. 

The condition of the bank on the first day of January, 
1892, was as follows: Capital Stock, $150,000; Surplus Fund, 
$150,000; Undivided Profits, $8,715.47. The bank has paid 
for the twenty years of its existence an average dividend of 
nine and one-half per cent, per annum to its shareholders. 

The Newberry Savings Bank was organized on the 2nd day 
of April, 1891, with the following Board of Directors- James 
2 Z 



T38 AKNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

McIatxDsh, R. H. Wright, R. L. McCaughrin, J. N. Martin, 
John O. Peoples, R. C. Carlisle, M. A. Renwick, H. C. Rob- 
ertson, deceased, and J. F. J. Caldwell; with James Mcintosh, 
President, and R. H. Wright, Cashier. 

The condition of the bank on the first day of January, 
1893, was as follows: Capital Stock, $15,000; Surplus Fund, 
$2,000. 

In the spring of 1888, feeling the need of some banking 
facilities in the town of Prosperity, J. M. Wheeler, H. C. 
Moseley and W. A. Moseley, who were conducting a mercan- 
tile business, and George D. Brown, of Brown & Moseley, 
lumber dealers, went to work and organized a private bank 
under the firm name of Wheeler & Moseley, Bankers. The 
management of the bank has been in charge of Mr. H. C. 
Moseley, with Mr. Joseph H. Hunter as cashier and book 
keeper. The bank is still in operation and has done a suc- 
cessful business. Both the deposit account and the loan and 
discount business have been as good as the projectors could 
liave expected or even desired, and the enterprise has been a 
great convenience to the people of Prosperity and the adjacent 
country, for it has helped greatly in the matter of handling 
the cotton brought to the town, and in this way made Pros- 
perity a much better cotton market than it otherwise could 
have been. During the season just closed they managed to 
handle and pay for about ten thousand bales of cotton. The 
bank has back of it the firms of Moseley Bros, and Brown & 
Moseley and J. M. Wheeler, who represent a capital of more 
than $100,000. It is hoped that this private bank will lead 
to the organization of a bank on a larger scale, as it no doubt 
will in the near future. 

The Newberry Cotton Mills. 
The Newberry Cotton Mills was organized May 7th, 1888, 
with the following Board of Directors: J. N. Martin, R. H. 
Wright, James Mcintosh, W. T. Tarrant, AVm. Langford, 
James A. Crotwell, George S. Mower, M. A. Renwick, D. H. 
Wheeler, R. L. McCaughrin, James H. McMuUan. R. L. 
McCaughrin was elected President and Treasurer and Geo. S. 
Mower Secretary. The handsome and siibstantial buildings 
were erected by W. T. Davis & Co., contractors, under the 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 739 

supervision of C. W. Holbrook, the Superintendent of the Mill. 
The building was completed and the mill began work in 
January, 1885. Mr. Holbrook was for many years connected 
with cotton mills both in the United States and Mexico, and 
was a faithful and efficient officer. He continued in the office 
of Superintendent until within two years before his death 
(having resigned on account of sudden loss of health), which 
occurred on the 8th day of October, 1890. Ho was a native 
of New Hampshire. 

The mill has at this time (1892) 330 looms, 11,000 spin- 
dles, consumes annually 5,500 bales of cotton, and employs 
250 hands. It manufactures cloth only. The mill has now: 
Capital Stock (paid up), $250,000; Surplus Fund, $100,000. 
The prssent officers are: R. L. McCaughrin, President; Thos. J. 
McCrary, Treasurer and General Manager; George S. Mower, 
Secretary; J. Higgins, Superintendent. George A. Moody, of 
Massachusetts, succeeded Mr. Holbrook as Superintendent, and 
tilled the position very acceptably for several years, but in 
the spring of 1892 he returned to his home at the North. 

There has been no change in the Board of Directors since 
the organization of the mill. Robert D. Wright has been the 
efficient book-keeper of the mill since it has been running. 

Mr. Henry C. Robertson came to Newberry from Charleston 
in 1887 and was Treasurer and General Manager of the Mill 
from that time until his death on September 9th, 1892. He 
was a most estimable gentleman, and made many friends 
during his residence in Newberry. 

The houses for the operatives are situated on the western 
side of the mill, towards Scott's Creek. The operatives have 
the advantage of church and school, provided by the com- 
pany. 

The Oil Mill. 
The Newberry Cotton Seed Oil Mill and Fertilizer Com- 
pany was organized on July 8th, 1890, and the following 
Directors were then elected: Thos. V. Wicker, Thos. M. Neel, 
O. B. Mayer, L. W. Floyd, G. W. Summer, G. F. Long, H. H. 
Folk, J. M. Johnstone, Geo. S. Mower. The Directors held a 
meeting a few days afterwards. J. M. Johnstone was elected 
President and L. W. Floyd the Secretary and Treasurer and 



740 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

General Manager. Work was at once commenced on the 
necessary buildings, which were located on Caldwell Street, at 
the junction of the Columbia and Greenville and the Colum- 
bia, Newberry and Laurens Railroads. The mill began running 
the latter part of December, 1890. There has been no change 
in the officers of the company since its organization. It has 
a capital stock of $80,000. 

Societies of Newberry — Missionary, Etc. 

The following historical sketch of the Newberry Woman's 
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South 
has been kindly given me by Mrs. J. W. Humbert, Corre- 
sponding Secretary: 

Until within the last decade the missionary operations of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church South were, as Bishop Pierce 
stated, like a boat with oars on one side, and made but slow 
progress. But since the organization of the Woman's Mis- 
sionary Society the working power of the boat is complete, 
and much greater progress has been the result. In May, 
1878, a few "elect ladies" of the Southern Methodist Church 
assembled in First Church, Atlanta, Ga., to hear the action 
of the General Conference then in session relative to woman's 
missionary work in foreign mission fields. The Woman's Mis- 
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was 
organized at that meeting. 

The South Carolina Conference met in Newberry December 
11-17, 1878. Bishop W. M. Wightman presided. Monday 
afternoon, 16th December, 1878, Dr. A. W. Wilson, Missionary 
Secretary, now Bishop, addressed the ladies in the Methodist 
Church on the importance of this great missionary movement 
and urged them to form a Conference Missionary Society. 
The names of forty persons from ten charges in the Confer- 
ence were secured, and the South Carolina Conference Woman's 
Missionary Society was organized. The following officers were 
elected: President, Mrs. Wightman; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. Wil- 
liams, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Blake and Mrs. Breeden; Correspond- 
ing Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Humbert (daughter of Gen. H. H. 
Kinard of Newberry); Recording Secretary, Mrs. A. M. Chriez- 
burg, formerly Miss Hattie Kilgore of Newberry; Treasurer, 
Mrs. F. J. Pelzer. Thus Newberry furnished two officers and 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY, 741 

sixteen charter members of the Conference Society. These 
two officers have been identified with the work ever since — 
to the present time, 1892. 

The Newberry Auxiliary Society was organized by the Rev. 
J. B. Campbell, March 4, 1879, with the following officers: 
President, Mrs. Y. J. Pope; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. T. F. Greneker 
and Mrs. S. F. Fant; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Mary Pope; 
Recording Secretary, Miss Nellie Chapman; Treasurer, Miss 
Addie Moorman. This Society has been in successful opera- 
tion ever since. Mrs. E. S. Herbert was President for several 
years. 

All the other Churches in Newberry have similar Societies, 
and all active in the prosecution of this great Christian work. 
And as the years pass on, more and more we can see that 
the clouds of darkness, ignorance and superstition are lifting 
from all Pagan lands. Outside barbarians are no longer ex- 
cluded from China and Japan, and even the Dark Continent 
of Africa is receiving the rays of light. I cannot doubt that 
the heroic, the Apostolic efforts of Bishop "Wilson and others 
will yet be crowned with success. 

I give here, as the most fitting place, a brief sketch of the 
life and work of Miss Mary Galloway (Mrs. Giffen), who died 
in the mission field of Egypt, having devoted her life and all 
her energies to that work: 

Mrs. Mary E. Galloway Giffen, one of the noble and heroic 
women of the world, was born in Newberry County, S. C, 
December 8th, 1842. She was the second daughter of Rev. 
Jonathan and Mrs. Martha Speer Galloway. At the time of 
her birth her father was pastor of all the Associate Reformed 
Churches in the County of Newberry, and so remained for 
fifteen years, when, in consequence of the failure of his health, 
he ga/ve up liis pastoral charge and devoted the rest of his 
life to the education and religious training of his children. 

Mrs. Giffen exhibited in childhood all those characteristics 
which so marked her in after life — contented cheerfulness and 
intense activity of mind, body, hands and feet. She early 
exhibited a great passion for books, especially history; Jand 
the wonderful stories and simple narratives of the Bible 
fascinated her. 

During a part of the years 1854, 1855, 1858 and 1859, she 



742 



ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 



was under the tuition of Prof. Wm. Hood. In the winter of 
1859 her father, haviu^r surrendered his pastoral charge, re- 
moved with his family to Due West, the better to enable him 
to accomplish the education of his children. In the College 
of Due West Mrs. GifPen remained about sixteen months, 
when she graduated with the highest honors conferred by the 
institution. At the time of her graduation the country was 
overshadowed by the clouds of war soon to burst. She still 
devoted herself, however, to the acquisition of knowledge, and 
soon turning her attention to the vocation of a teacher she 
took charge of a school in Georgia. At the close of the year 
she returned home, the country having become so convulsed 
that almost all the liberal professions were suspended. On 
the 12th of May, 18G4, at Spottsylvania Court House, her 
brother, Calvin M. Galloway, was killed in battle. Before 
this time she had had no deep religious experience, but her 
brother's death produced a complete revolution in her feelings. 
She became deeply interested in religious subjects, and in her 
own salvation that she might join her brother in the better 
world. She had a clear apprehension of truth, and she was 
soon moved by the new divine life stirring within her to seek to 
do something for others, and to bring others into the Master's 
kingdom, if it were possible. And soon we find her, in the 
latter part of the year 18G5, making application to the Board 
of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Cburch. But 
they were not able to employ her. She made application to 
the Board because, at that time, the Associate Reformed Church 
had no Board of Missions. Bafifled for the time and foiled in 
her efforts to go on a foreign mission, she determined to 
devote herself to teaching in this country. Accordingly we 
find her teaching French and mathematics in a school in 
Middle Tennessee. 

In 1873 she is in the interior of Texas for several months, 
making a careful study of the people, the country and its 
resources; and writing letters for the Presbyterian, which were 
highly appreciated by the editor and the readers of the paper. 
Finally, in December, 1874, Dr. J. B. Dales, Secretary of the 
Board of Foreign Missions of the United Presbyterian Church 
of North America, wrote to Dr. Bonner, Secretary of the 
Board of Foreign Missions of the Associate Reformed Church, 



ANNALS OF NEWBBRBT, 



748 



stating that his Board would soon send two young men to 
Egypt, and asking if the Church South could not send some 
one to co-operate with them in the same field. Dr. Bonner 
at once sought Miss Galloway and warmly urged her to offer 
herself for the work. She answered if the Board wished she 
would willingly go. A meeting of the Board was immediate^ 
called and she was unanimously appointed. The appointment 
was heartily endorsed by the Church. 

On the 28th of January, 1875, she left her father's house 
and passed out over the threshold for the last time, on the 
journey to Philadelphia, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. J. I. 
Bonner. A series of meetings had been arranged all along 
the route to bid her farewell and Godspeed. Every mark of 
kindness and of honor was freely manifested at every place 
on the way. "In Newberry, the place of her birth, her 
father's old friends received her as if she had been their own 
child. Her father's old slaves, in procession, escorted her to 
the depot on her departure, and overwhelmed her with their 
demonstrations of sincere affection, creating a scene rarely 
witnessed in the streets." 

On the 10th of February Miss Galloway, with the missionary 
party to which she was attached, left Philadelphia for Egypt, 
never to see her native land again. Iq a little more than a 
year after her arrival in Egypt she was married to Rev. John 
Giffen, of the same mission, into whose care she had beeD 
committed by Dr. Bonner on their departure from Philadelphia. 
With her husband she lived and labored for nearly six years, 
iu the effort to give to some of the women and children of 
Egypt the Gospel of Christ, and in teaching them the way of 
deliverance from sin. No more devoted worker for Christ ever 
left America, as all her labors in Egypt and all her letters 
from that country show. In a letter to the Ladies' Benevo- 
lent Society of Newberry, S. C, she says in conclusion: "So 
do not forget to pray for us. Without the spirit of God we 
can do nothing, and when we look over our mission station 
here, it makes us feel as I have often felt at home when 
looking upon a field of corn parching up in a summer 
drought: '0! for the rain!'" 

At twenty minutes past ten on Sabbath night, the 16th of 
October, 1881, this noble and devoted woman passed to a 



744 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

better world, having lived only one week after giving birth to 
her last child. Mrs. Giffen left three children: Bruce John- 
stone Giffen, born in Ramie, Egypt, March 5th, 1878; Lulu 
(Margaret) Speer Giffen, born in Cairo, Egypt, February 24th, 
1880; Marion Galloway Giffen, born in Cairo, Egypt, October 
0th, 1881. She was not quite thirty seven years of age at 
the time of her death. 

For a more extended and better account of the life and 
labors of this good woman the reader is referred to the "Life 
and Letters of Mrs. Mary Galloway Giffen," compiled by Rev. 
J. C. Galloway, A. M. 

In concluding this brief notice of a good and lovely woman 
I must be permitted to insert here the following sonnets, 
tributes to her memory: 

Another name is added to the roll 

of noble women, who with faith sublime 

A father's house forgot in some strange clime 
Be5-ond the sea, and with undaunted soul 

IJxpIore the trackless waste, or forest drear, 
Bearding the lion in his very den, 
Or tiger fierce, or still more savage men, 

To bring the tidings of Salvation near; 
Though weak, yet strong, a glorious sisterhood. 

In body weak, but strong in faith, and love. 

And bright-eyed hope; as when the timorous dove, 
Back to the ark, across the raging flood, 

Sped like an eagle hastening to the prey, 
As in her mouth she bore the olive leaf away. 

Not dead, but sleeping ! and the silent power 
The world shall own, when yonder stately pile. 
Which towers in solemn grandeur o'er the Nile, 

Shall vanish like the pageant of an hour; 
When she, whose beauty dazzled every eye, 

And lured the haughty Roman to his fate, 

A willing victim, robbed of all her state, 
Shall unlamented and forgotten lie ;* 

Then take thy rest, our honored pioneer, 
All undisturbed amid the deafening roar 
of hostile guns that shake the neighboring shore. 

And blanch the cheek of swarthy Copt with fear; 
For thou must sleep until the Bridegroom come, 
And open wide for thee thine everlasting home ! 

E. L. r. 

July 24th, 1882. 

♦Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. 

One Society introduced in Newberry in the year 1888, but 
which has been in existence several years in other parts of 
the country, has for me a particular charm and attraction, 
and always makes a warm and sympathetic feeling in my 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 745 

heart whenever I think of it. That Society is known as the 
"King's Daughters," and the sole purpose of it is to do good 
in some way, as it is entirely practical, to visit the sick and 
the afflicted, and to nurse them back to health if possible, and 
to comfort them in sorrow. They are true Sisters of Charity. 
I remember when I was lying sick and suffering in hospital 
how I longed for the gentle touch of a woman's hand. I asked 
for the Sisters of Charity, but there were none connected with 
the hospital, and I had to put up with suc'n nursing as men 
only could give. They did well, but no man's hand can soothe 
pain like the soft touch of a pure woman's fingers. My nurses, 
did as well as men can do; and you, Gibbes and Brown, I 
can never forget; but you, gentle and kind as you were, had 
not the sympathetic souls of women. May this Society of the 
King's Daughters never cease its good work, work done in 
His name, as long as there is work. And we cannot doubt 
that work will always present itself, for the poor, the sick, and 
the sorrowful are always here. 

Is the world growing more Christlike? I do not know. 
But this I do know, that there are men and women in it 
that are growing more Christlike as the years roll on; as the 
existence of the Society just mentioned and the one next 
named proves, I think. 

The \V. C. T. U. 
There are other benevolent societies in active operation in 
Newberry, amongst which the Woman's Christian Temperance 
Union occupies a prominent place. The society here was under 
the energetic and effective management of Mrs. C. Mower, who 
was its head from its organization at Newberry until her death. 
Since then Mrs. Sophia Mower Redus has taken up the work 
and has been actively and successfully carrying it on. It has 
an excellent library of four or five hundred volumes, mostly 
of a temperance and religious character, and all good. I have 
read quite a number of the books, not all, and have found 
some of them of a superior character. Societies of the same 
name, and for the same purpose, were organized by Mrs, 
Mower at several places in the county — one at Helena, one at 
Chappells, one at Prosperity, and perhaps, also, at some other 
places. Mrs. Mower and her successor in office, Mrs. Redus>, 



746 ANNALS OF NEWBEBEY. 

and those associated with thorn, deserve great credit and praise 
for their active and energetic work for the suppression of the 
vice of drunkenness; for its suppression, not so much amongst 
the adults, those already surrendered to the habit, but amongst 
those of young and tender minds, still plastic; thinking rightly 
that early impressions, made deep and strong, are apt to be 
lasting. And thinking, rightly, also, that temperance and 
sobriety are good auxiliaries to help one to live a Christian 
life. 

I may be permitted to insert here a short sketch of the life 
of Mrs. Mower, who died suddenly while actively engaged in 
Christian work. 

Mrs. Cynthia Mower was born in the State of Maine on 
December 22nd, 1829, and was therefore in her G2nd year at 
the time of her death, which occurred on May 23d, 1892. 
She was born Allen and was married in 1852 to Duane Mower. 
In 1854 they decided to come South. They settled at Prosperity 
in the District of Newberry and engaged in the mercantile 
business, in which they were successful, and they became 
entirely identified with the South. In February, 1867, they 
moved to Newberry, and here they continued the mercantile 
business until Mr. Mower's death on the 2nd of July, 1872. 
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Mower continued the 
business with success; with such success, indeed, as to place 
her in the front rank of business circles. 

But it is not for her success in business only that the writer 
has, and has long had, so great an admiration for her. She 
was a woman of true Christian piety and benevolence; and the 
words as applied to her may be used with the utmost degree 
of truth, that she was foremost in every good word and work. 
The church of her choice, the Associate Reformed Presby- 
terian, never had a more devoted or consistent member, and 
to all church enterprises and purposes she gave liberally. She 
was kind and benevolent to the poor, helping them wisely in 
the best way in which it was possible for any one to be helped, 
that is, helping them to help themselves. 

To her the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was greatly 
indebted for its planting and success as a living institution at 
Newberry. She was always in earnest in every work which 
she undertook. The cause of temperance was very dearjto 



ANNAXS OF NEWBEKRY. 747 

her, and ia connection with the W. C. T. U., and as part of 
her temperance work, she organized Bands of Hope among the 
children. She rarely missed one of the meetings, which were 
held during her life on every Tuesday afternoon in the 
Thompson Street Church. Her annual Christmas treats to the 
children of the Band of Hope became one of the institutions 
of Newberry. I had prepared a separate notice of the W. C. 
T. U. to go with the other societies of the town and county of 
Newberry, but it is scarcely necessary to separate it from this 
tribute to Mrs. Mower, as she was the principal mover in the 
work here, and it may be that without her it would not have 
been. Though all good women see the beauty, necessity and 
value of such an organization, yet all good women are not 
able to do what they always want done; neither are all good 
men. 

The following is the manner of Mrs. Mower's death as related 
by Rev. E. P. McClintock, pastor of the Associate Reformed 
Presbyterian Church at Newberry, in a letter to the Rev. Dr. 
Grier, of Due West, and it will be seen that she died while 
engaged in her benevolent work. Mr. McClintock says: 

"Her death occurred last Saturday, the 23d instant, at Little Moun- 
tain, a station eight miles below Prosperity, on the Columbia, Newberry 
and Laurens Railroad. We were taking the Busy Bees, the missionary 
society of the children of our church, to spend the day and have a picnic 
on Little Mountain. We were detained at the station only a little while 
in arranging to send the baskets in a wagon. We then started to walk to 
the mountain about half a mile distant. Minnie Todd and Mrs. C. 
Mower were walking with Mr John B. Lathan, a mercha .t of that place. 
Mrs. George S. Mower and I were walking as hort distance in rear of 
them. The Busy Bees and their guests were a considerable distance 
ahead of us. We had walked three or four hundred yards, and Mrs. 
INIower was talking busily to Mr. Lathan about her fondness for children 
aud her temperancp work among them. Suddenly she caught his arm, 
exclaiming, 'Oh! Mr. Lathan,' as if in g eat pain. He called to me and 
we let her down gently to the ground, and she was dead. Mr. and Mrs. 
M. A. Carlisle, Miss Mamie Ilolbrook and Mr. S. B. Jones joined us at 
oDce, but all efforts to revive her were unavs'iling." 

She died while in a good work, a good and useful woman and 
a Christian. She is survived by an only child, Hon. George S. 
Mower, a practicing attorney at Newberry. He married Miss 
Fannie D. Jones, daughter of Maj. L. J. Jones, and they have 
four children: Mary Helen, Frank Duane, McHardy and Myra. 



748 ANNALS OF NEWBEKRY. 

Y. M. C. A. 

And not least amongst the societies for the promotion and 
doing of Christian work stood the Young Men's Christian 
Association, which was at work here from the year 1875 to 
1889, with some intermissions. There is at this time (Jan- 
uary, 1893,) a Y. M. C. A. in active operation in Newherry 
College. 

There is also a Bible Society, auxiliary to the American 
Bible Society, which has been in existence and active operation 
for many year-?. Its sole purpose is to distribute the pure 
Word of God in the authorized version without note or com- 
ment. 

The Future Progress Society. 

I am glad to be able to give here a sketch of this Society, 
which is better than a mere mention. 

This Society was organized in Newberry County, S. C, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1878, by Lewis Duckett, Isom Greenwood, John P. 
Sims, L. H. Sims, N. C. Duckett and others. The same year 
a county charter was granted them by the Clerk of Court. 
After organizing several societies in Newberry County, a char- 
ter was granted the corporators by the State Legislature on 
February 9, 188V. The corporatorss were: David F. Lyles, 
George W. Starks, Lewis Duckett, John P. Sims, Lafayette H. 
Sims, Perry W. Greenwood and Wade M. Morgan. The charter 
was so amended as to allow an insurance policy among its 
members, and there has been more than four thousand dollars 
paid to bene ficiaries since March 5, 1885. 

The headquarters of this organization are located at New- 
berry. David F. Lyles was the first President. Then P. L. 
Spearman served one year. R. E. Williams served one year, 
and then Rev. F. R. Wallace was elected and Vs still President, 
having filled the position four years in succession. W. W. La- 
zenbury served one year as secretary. The present secretary, 
George W. Starks, was then elected and has served the past 
seven years, M. A. Carlisle, Esq., has acted as legal adviser 
and attorney for the society since its organization. 

The objects of the society are gool morals, to enlarge the 
fund of general intelligence, and the general elevation of the 
colored people by any means it m^y adopt, but especially by 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 749 

providing a relief fund in case of sickness and a benefit fund 
in case of death. Much good has been done by this organi- 
ation. 

Lewis Duckett, the father and founder of this organization, 
and its treasurer from the beginning, was born a slave in 
Newberry County, and is said to be worth more than five thous- 
and dollars. He is a man that his race seems to bo proud of. 

From this brief glance at the benevolent Societies of New- 
berry the reader will perceive that the lovers of good order 
and right living are not idle iu their efforts to check the 
advance of immorality and to overcome the evil influences 
that continually assail humanity. 

The Farmers' Alliance. 

How many years the organization known as the Farmers' 
Alliance has been in existence I do not know; it first took 
hold in Newberry about six or seven years ago, but no 
county organization was effected until the year 1888. 
There had to be five Sub-Alliances iu the county before 
the County Alliance could be organized. On the 30th of 
October, 1888, the county organization was effected, the body 
meeting with the Cannon Creek Sub-Alliance. The first 
officers were: W. D. Hardy, President; W. C. Cromer, Vice- 
President; John F. Banks, Secretary; W. B. Boinest, Treasurer; 
J. W. Scott, Lecturer; F. N. Calmes, Assistant Lecturer; Jeff 
Quattlebaum, Chaplain; H. S. Knight, Doorkeeper; J. M. Werts, 
Assistant Doorkeeper; P. H. Koon, Sergeant-at-Arms. The 
officers are elected annually in July of each year. Joseph 
L. Keitt was the second President, and then J. A. Sligh was 
elected and is still serving as President. The other officers 
at present are: W. E. Lake, Vice-President; C. F. Boyd, 
Secretary; Benjamin Half acre, Treasurer; John F. Banks, Lec- 
turer; J. B. Fellers, Assistant Lecturer; J. J. Kinard, Chaplain; 
B. H. Miller, Doorkeeper; J. Perry Cook, Assistant Doorkeeper; 
R. I. Stoudemayer, Sergeant-at-Arms. 

The objects and purposes of this order are no doubt good. 
The owners and tillers of the soil are the great producers 
of wealth and subsistence, wit'iont which every oth^r in- 
dustry in the world would perish, even the manufacturing, 



750 ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 

■which should be the ally of the producer, but which, too 
often, is not. The farmers are the people, the basis, the 
foundation, upon which at last the real prosperity of the 
country depends. 

The merchant, the mechanic, the manufacturer, should be 
the allies of the farmer and not seek to grow rich at his 
expense and make him a mere toiling drudge. To protect 
themselves against the leeches of the body politic, trusts 
and speculations of various kinds, the farmers have formed 
this great Alliance, which is destined to be the Power, 
not only in this State, but in all the States, if they are 
wise enough to let all their councils be governed by prudence 
and common sense. The Sub-Treasuiy Bill originated with 
them. Whether that bill is wise in its leading features, I 
cannot say. But it is aiming well; that is, the deliverance of 
the producers from the fluctuation of prices, and from their 
thraldom to speculators. If the Alliance continues it is des- 
tined soon to become a great political power. In fact it will 
be the party in the United States. And it will do move to 
abolish and remove all cause of dissension between the North 
and the South than it is possible for any other party or in- 
fluence to do. 

This Party knows, and can know, no North, South, East nor 
West, because it is composed of the people, the producers 
everywhere, and their interests are one. Its tendency is to 
Union, to make the Union stronger and stronger and to allay 
all ill feeling. And that tendency is certainly goo:l if Avisdom 
and justice govern the party. 



ANNALS OF NEWBEBRY. 751 

XII. 

SINCE THE WAR. 

Reconstruction, and Events Following. 
My heart fails me, my hand trembles and holds the pen 
unsteadily when I undertake to write, however briefly, of 
those dark ten years immediately succeeding the war, through 
which we were compelled to pass. At first it seemed from 
the friendly advances made by President Johnson that the 
rehabilitation of the State would not be so very difficult. 
B. F. Perry, of Greenville, who had been known to be op- 
posed to the measures of the Secessionists and always a 
consistent Union man, a man of wealth, and of high standing 
on account of his probity and firm adherence to his convictions 
of right, was sent for by the President to consult upon the 
necessary measures for the establishment of good order and 
good government in the State. Mr. Perry went to Washing- 
ton where he was received with honor and respect. He was 
appointed Provisional Governor of the State and immediately 
set to work for its reconstruction upon the basis agreed upon 
by the President and other prominent men of the North. An 
increase of confidence was felt all over the State at his ap- 
pointment to the Chief Magistracy. Upon the issuance of his 
Proclamation as Governor, which was well written and well 
received by all classes, hope was felt that peace and pros- 
perity were once more about to return to the State when 
absolute ruin had been feared by many. Civil Government 
was restored; a Convention was held composed of the ablest 
men in the State; a new Constitution was adopted to meet 
the new condition of things; members of the Legislature of 
both houses were elected, and the people of the State fondly 
hoped that an era of good feeling was about to return and 
that the State was to take her place in the Union once more 
with all her sovereign rights and powers unimpaired. But 
these hopes were rudely dispelled; the President himself became 
very unpopular with the leading spirits of his party. The 
opposition went so far that he was impeached, in the hope 
that he might be deprived of his office and driven in disgrace 



752 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

from Washington. In this his enemies did not succeed, but 
all his measures for the restoration of the State were despised 
and trampled upon; the State Government was overthrown as 
not being radical enough, and our Senators and Representa- 
tives were not allowed to take their seats in Congress until 
after reconstruction under radical regime. 

The following named gentlemen were members from New- 
^berry of the Convention which met in September, 1865; 
Robert Stewart, E. P. Lake and Henry Summer. 

Under that Constitution, that is, the Constitution adopted 
iu September, 18G5, the members elected to the Legisla- 
ture, which met at the usual time in November, 18G5, from 
Newberry County were: J. H. Williams, Senator; C. H. Subtr. 
A. C. Garlington and E. S. Keitt, Representat'ves. By that 
Legislature, and at the first session, Y. J. Pope, Esq., wfs 
elected District Judge of Newberry County, to hold his Couit 
in the Court House once each quarter, that is to say, four 
times yearly, with certain well defined powers and jurisdiction. 
At that session was passed what is known as the Black Code, 
by which, although the rights of person and property of the 
colored people were declared to be under the shield and j^ro- 
tection of the law, yet they were not admitted to the full 
rights of citizenship and had not the ballot given to them. 
It was considered right and proper and even necessary that 
they should be held in a state of pupilage, being considered, 
and rightly so considered at that time, as unfit to exercise 
the full rights of citizenship. It was hardly reasonable to 
suppose that an ignorant people, no matter how well disposed 
they might be — and these were well disposed as a rule — 
suddenly freed from the condition of chattel slavery, would or 
could be competent to vote well and wisely, or to make and 
execute the laws of the State. 

All the members from Newberry voted for the passage of 
this Act except Mr. Suber. He did not favor it. 

This action of our people gave great offence to the ruling 
party at Washington and all over the North. James L. Orr, 
who had been elected Governor, was permitted to hold his 
position, but as Provisional Governor, until 1868, when the 
reconstruction of the State under radical auspices having been 
'Completed, R. K. Scott, of Ohio, v/as elected Governor. But 




Burr J. Ramage. 
Jas. Y. McFall. 



Young John Harrington. 
'Ihonias M. I.?.ke. 



CnKRKS OH COJRT. 



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ANNALS OF NEWBEKKY. 75H 

in point of fact the State was under military rule from the 
close of the war until 1868. 

In ISGS Charles W. Montgomery, a native of Charleston, 
was made Senator from Newberry; J. A. Henderson, J. D. 
Boston and James Hutson, Representatives. The Representa- 
tives were all colored and, I believe, natives of Newberry. 
In 1S70, Boston, Jas. A. Henderson and James Hutson wfro 
elected to the House, Montgomery being still Senator. In 
1872 Corwin of Ohio was elected Senator, with Boston, S. S. 
iJridges and J no. T. Ileuuersun, as Representatives-. In 187t) 
Corwin was again Senator, with Tiios. Keitf, \Y. H. Thomas 
and S. S. Bridges as Representatives. It was i^ot until 187S 
that Newberry ceased to bo re[)rese..ted by colored men and 
aliens. For a complete list of Senators an 1 Re|)resentatives 
the reader is referred to the Apf)endix. 

In 1808 was held the Convention which fr;:mi'd iiud adopted 
the present Constitution of the State, which is now the supreme 
law under the Constitution and la as of the Unite 1 States. 
Of that Convention the members from Newberry were: B. O. 
Duncan, Lee A. Nance and James A. Henderson. Tiiis Con- 
vention met in Charleston, January ]4th, 1808. 

By that Constitution our present Free School system was 
established; monhood suffrage without regard to race, color or 
previous condition was admitted and declared to be a right 
})ertaining to and inherent in every citizen; married women, 
as to their own property, both real and personal, no matter 
how acquired, were emancipated from all control of their 
husbands and were declared to have all the rights and. priv- 
iloores of a fern me sole. 

Vhether that Constitution was Avisely made, and whether 
its provisions are altogether wise and good, is still a doubtful 
questio'n. But be that as it may, over twenty years have 
passed since it was adopted and no steps have been taken by 
the people to change it or to modify it in any way. This 
writer has grave doubts of the utility of the boasted Free 
School system as it is administered here; and graver still 
of the Woman's Rights feature in the Constitution; and 
graver still of the wisdom of that desire that so many strong 
minded women have in these times for the extension of .suf- 
frage to women. But I am verv free to sav and to admit 

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754 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

cheerfully that I am somewhat of an old fogy; attached to 
old things and customs, and especially and very warmly at- 
tached to the general principles of the old English Common 
Law, from which our present Constitution is far removed. 
According to my view of marriage and the relations existing, 
or which should exist, between the sexes, a man and his wife 
are one in heart, soul and essence, indissoluble, and therefore 
any legislation which tends to make them two separate beings, 
independent of each other, is that far radically wrong. And 
so the old English Common Law, which merged the being 
of the wife in that of the husband, was founded in the very 
"nature, reason and the soul of things." But after all, the 
nature and the mind of man are so flexible and yielding, that, 
given any particular set of circumstances, or any particular 
environment (to use a modern word), they yield and adapt 
themselves accordingly, so that life at last may be rendered 
moderately comfortable under almost any condition. 

I hope my readers will forgive me if I pause here and 
insert some thoughts that occurred to me in 1865 soon after 
the close of the war, as to the proper course to be pursued 
by the people ef the State. My own thought was that the 
Convention which met in September, ISGo, should take no 
steps towards rehabilitating the State or establishing govern- 
ment of any kind, but that it should, in a solemn State paper 
addressed to all the States and the people of the States, set 
foi'th the reasons for seeking independence by Secession, and 
then, after doing this in a manner as able, distinct and dig- 
nified as possible, make a formal, complete and absolute sur- 
render of the State with all its rights and privileges as a 
Sovereign Power to the General Government, asking that Gov- 
ernment to place the State and its inhabitants under Terri- 
torial Government and to give such laws and institutions as 
might be necessary for the securing of good order, peace and 
})rosperity. 

AVhat would have been the result of thus proceeding I do 
not know; but such, I thought, was the proper course to 
pursue, and I still believe that it would have been better than 
what was done. We fondly hoped that we could go on and 
act as a Sovei-eign State, ignoring the fact that wo were con- 
(juered and at the mercy of our conquerors. As we have seen, 



ANNALS or NEWBERRY. tOO 

our first movements gave great offence, and we were placed 
under military rule and so held until the carpot-bag dynasty 
was firmly established over us. 

Of those dark days I do not wish to say much. It was a 
period of such confused thought and action that the whole 
period seems more like a troubled dream than a sad reality 
of life. A number of deeds of violence were committed by 
reckless white men. Some negroes were killed, not only in 
the country around, but in the town of Newberry, even in the 
day time. One colored man was shot to death near where I 
was living, not far from the College, while I was eating my 
dinner. Amos, the barber, was killed in the early evening, 
July 25, 1860, near the Court House, by some persons un- 
known. The air was full of rumors of Ku Klux, and one 
night an attack was made upon the house of Sim Young. 
The house was on Adams Street, about two hundred yards 
from where it intersects with Pratt Street, and north of Pratt. 
Sim Young was too hard for the party; the assailants were 
driven off, and one poor fellow was seriously wounded and 
afterwards captured and lodged in jail. He was admitted to 
bail, I believe, was never brought to trial, but what was his 
after fate I do not know, though it was rumored that he was 
hidden and made away with by some of his friends and asso- 
ciates. At any rate he disappeared. Many citizens of New- 
Ijerry County were arrested and lodged in jail on account of 
their alleged connection with the Ku Klux Klan; but none 
here were ever brought to trial, though many from other }iarts 
of the country were tried, convicted and severely punished, 
whether justly or not it is impossible for me to say; though 
I have little doubt that in many cases harsh measures were 
meted 6ut to them, judging from the language used by Pres- 
ident Grant on the occasion of the Ku Klux arrests. In that 
message to Congress he said, speaking of the Ku Klux: "It 
is thought that no innocent person has been arrested," thus 
prejudging them and condemning them as guilty before investi- 
gation and trial; certainly a very unfair and unjudicial mode 
of proceeding. . 

I append here a list of alleged Ku Klux arrested in New- 
berry County, and some few from Laurens County who were 
put in jail here: Charles Sims, Dr. F. M. Setzler, Dr. E. C. 



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Jones, John I. Hoiiseal, J. Y. McFall, T. P. Slider, Baxter Chap- 
man, W. I. Harp, J. M. Johnstone, Dr. Wm. M. Kinard, Thomas 
Wadlington, Adam Berly, Simpson Malone, Charles Franklin, 
Bennet Hancock, Dr. Wm. Hatton, John L. Epps, Dr. T. C. 
Brown, Richard V. Gist, Isaac Nance, Wm. Calmes, Duff Odell, 
Thos. H. Chappell, Jno. F. Watkios, Jno. Wilson, Wm. E. 
Smith, Dr. J. O. Dickert, Osborne Bishop, J. M. Calmes, Sol. 
Hubbard, P. H. Hargrove, W. L. Andrews, Jas. R. Irvin, P. M. 
Denson and M. M. Buford. Mr. Buford was the only man 
from Newberry who was really put on trial. He and Osborne 
Bishop were in the Columbia jail. He was put on trial along 
with four prisoners from Laurens. The jury failed to agree 
and a mistrial was ordered. The right to the writ of habeas 
corpus was no longer suspended and the}- gave bond and 
were never afterwards brought to trial. 

It is nothing more than proper and just to state that after 
the war the first acts of violence were committed by colored 
men; but it is not probable that these acts had any political 
significance, but that they were done rather for purposes of 
plunder or revenge. In 1860, July 27, Mr. Lemuel Lane 
was murdered by his former slaves in the lower part of 
the county. And in 1860 Mr. James Cureton, for purposes 
of plunder, was killed by colored men in a very atrocious 
manner. 

During all these years from the surrender of Appomatox 
in 1805, to the Democratic victory in 1876, eleven years, the 
State was in a continual ferment, fevei-ish and excited ; under 
military and radical carpet-bag rule, with a semblance only 
of law and order on which none of the old citizens could 
repose with any sure trust and confidence. A feeling of inse- 
curity and uncertainty pervaded the minds of almost all per- 
.sons ; a feeling as if no horrible nor strange, unnatural deed 
would be surprising at any time. It is very fortunate for lis 
that Ave forget ; or that we see the horrors through which 
we are passing and have passed, through a vail of mist that 
i^oftens their harsh outlines and clothes them in a dress not 
altogether repulsive, so that looking backwards years after we 
can view them with a tender and somewhat pleasant melan- 
choly. So those dark days now seem to us, or to nje at any 
n-.te. I am sure that severe trials, patiently and firmly l)orne 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 757 

in a high and heroic spirit, raise to a still greater degree of 
perfection the grandest and pnrest qualities of man. The 
hottest furnace is necessary to the perfect refining of gold. 

For a vivid picture of carpet-bag rule and of the time of 
reconstruction in the State, I beg leave to refer the reader to 
Major Leland's book, "A Voice from South Carolina," pub- 
lished by Walker, Evans & Cogswell in 1879. Major Leland 
Avas himself a sufferer, having been arrested as a member 
of the Ku Klux Klan and in his book he gives a graphic 
account of the times, of his experience as a prisoner, of the 
riot at Laurens and the flight of Joe Crews. 

Of the actual working of the Ku Klux Klan, or whether 
there was any such Klan, I know nothing. Or if there were 
ever such a Klan, the view I have always taken of its object 
and purpose is, that it was organized as a matter of self- 
defence, for the purpose of keeping some kind of order by 
striking the minds of the colored people so lately manumitted 
and brought face to face with duties and responsibilities of 
the gravity and magnitude of which they had no adequate 
conception, with a wholesome and mysterious aw^e. But like 
all other similar organizations and secret societies of regula- 
tors, there can be little doubt that it speedily degenerated 
into an engine of wrong and oppression. If the tales told of 
them be true, of which I know nothing and so cannot repeat 
them here, the objects of their regard and visitation were 
colored people and not the carpet-bag leaders of the colored 
race. 

"It was folly all ; 

They struck the negro when they should have struck 

The carpet-bagger under the fifth rib ; 

That is if they struck any." 

I understand that a gentleman, a citizen of this town, has 
in preparation a history specially devoted to the Ku Klux 
period. I have no doubt that his work will be all that it 
should be to give the reader a just conception of the state of 
the country at that trying time. The material is not before 
me to enable me to write as fully as I desired. But even if 
I had it and used it judiciously this book would soon grow 
to a size beyond that allowed. So then we will leave the Ku 
Klux and pass to other matters. 



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Sheriffs of the County Since the "War. 



W. W. Houseal was Sheriff during the war and at the close. 
J. Middleton Maffett, an officer in the army and while in 
service, was elected Sheriff in 1864, but died in hospital while 
on his way home to take charge of the office. Xext after 
Mr. Houseal was Thomas M. Paysinger, who beat Gen. Kinard 
in the race for the office in 1806. However, owing to some 
Ku Klux, or to some other troubles in which I'aysinger be- 
came involved. Gen. Kinard, Coroner, acted as Sheriff for 
some time. Afterwards Paysinger being relieved of his trouble 
acted as Sheriif until the close of his term. Carrington suc- 
ceeded. After him came Daniel B. Wheeler, who was Sheriff" 
for eight years, from 1878 to 188(). Mr. Wheeler was suc- 
ceeded by the present incumbent, W. W. Eiser, in 1886, who 
is now (1893) serving his third term. 



Clerks of Court. 

The Clerks of Court have been in the order in which they 
are here named, as follows : E. P. Lake, Thomas M. Lake, 
Jesse C. Smith, H. C. Moses, E. P. Chalmers, J. Y. McFall 
and J. M. Kinard, the present incumbent. Mr. Kinard was 
appointed to till the unexpired term of J. Y. McFall, who 
died Avhile in office, and having given entire satisfaction to 
the Jndges and to the people at the general election in 1888 
he received an almost unanimous vote for the office. Re- 
elected in 189'^ Burr J. Eamage was Clerk during the war 
and before. 

Of the foregoing Clerks E. P. Lake, a native of this coupty, 
was an old man when the war began ; H. C. Moses was a 
native of Sumter ; Jesse C. Smith, a stranger from Ohio : 
J. M. Kinard, a boy during the war and too young for ser- 
vice ; but his father was a gallant officer and soldier and was 
killed during the war in the Valley of Virginia : J. Y. McFall, 
a good soldier and captain of a company, was a successful 
merchant for some years after the war, retired from business, 
was elected Clerk and died in consequence of injuries received 
from a fall caused by slipping up on some ice-covered rocks 
near his house, when he was on his way to the office. E. P. 
Chalmers is still living. Mr. Chalmers has had the honor to 



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75(1 



represent his county in the Legislature, having been elected 
to the House in 188G. Thomas M. Lake is now dead. 

For some time during the war and until the close, T. M. 
Lake was courier for Gen. Longstreet, and while acting in that 
capacity he had some adventures which were quite romantic. 
There was one especially .so in which my old friends Joe. 
Cofield and Lieutenant Joe. Culbreath, an old soldier who 
passed through the Mexican AYar and revelled in the halls of 
the Montozumas, were participants. This was a ride on a fast 
running railway locomotive from Richmond towards the moun- 
tains of Virginia during a raging and terrific thunder storm 
at midnight. Cofield says, "On we went through the pitch 
darkness with the deep valleys and hills all about us illumi- 
nated often by the bright flashes of lightning, revealing mo- 
mentarily the vrild grandeur of the scenery and making us 
feel almost as though we were about to rush headlong into 
the deep, black abysm of hell. And all the while Culbreath 
was lying on his back in a happy way behind Lake and my- 
self telling the story of his love and talking of his sweet- 
heart, Sally, whom he afterwards married." 

In 187G, after ten years of Kadical reconstruction I'ule, 
Gen. Wade Hampton was elected Governor of the State and 
in almost every county a partial or complete Democratic 
victory was won. Never in all my life have I looked upon a 
scene of more enthusiastic joy than I saw in the streets and 
the square around the Courthouse that day when the result 
of the election was declared. Men seemed mad with joy. 
We had gained no victory here, but we saw that the cloud 
was broken and we hoped, rightly, that the thick blackness 
would soon roll itself away and let in the light once more. 
With the passing of that cloud the days of reconstruction 
passed and within a few years the last carpet-bagger had left 
the State. And now we have another kind of bagmen, men 
traveling the country in every direction, here, there and every- 
where, peaceable, industrious, jolly good fellows, known as 
drummers. Long may they flourish. Caesar commends them 
and speaks of them as helping to spread the civilization of 
Rome among the outlying peoples. Csesar was right, the 
bagman is a civilizer ; the carpet-bagger a locust. 

I remember, on the day of election I think it was, or per- 



760 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

haps it was the next day just before the result was declared, 
I was standing in the door of my bookstore, which was then 
in Law Range, feeling rather sad and downcast, not seeing 
into the future and rather despondent generally. "While I 
was standing thus alone looking out upon the moving world, 
J. C. Leahy, who was then Probate Judge, came up and 
spoke to me and began talking about the election and the 
political situation. I did not wish to talk about politics or 
about any thing with him just then, as I saw that he was 
considerably under the influence of whiskey, or some other 
ardent, and begged him to desist. He would not stoj:), and 
again, and again, I begged him not to talk as I was not in 
the humor to discuss any of the exciting topics of the day. 
Had he been entirely sober I think he would not have gone 
on, as he was usually very discreet, and he was certainly a 
man of sound, good sense and judgment and did all the 
duties of his office faithfully and well. Finally, as he would 
not desist, I turned upon him and talked to him as I wish 
never to talk to any man again. I told him all that was in 
my heart ; what I thought of him as regarded his position 
here ; what the people thought of him and all his class, and 
finally concluded by telling him that he and all his com- 
panions were intruders and that we would be justified in 
doing anything that would drive them out of the country. 
"What," he says, "assassination?" I replied, "No, sir; not 
assassination, that is never lawful.'' He said not much more 
and soon left me. But when he went to his room, as I was 
afterwards told, he walked the floor, and stamped his feet and 
talked and swore and raved like a madman. 

Though the Democratic victory in the State '"n 1876 was 
decisive, yet in this county the Radicals still retained their 
hold, Corwin having been elected Senator and Republicans to 
the House. But since that election the State and the county 
have both been entirely under the control of the Democratic 
party. 

To the foregoing brief picture of reconstruction times must 
be added some facts and events transpiring in the years im- 
mediately succeeding the war. In the first place it is very 
proper to take into consideration the great losses sustained 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 7611 

and the consequent dazed and insecure feeling that naturally 
])ervaded the minds of every body. The loss to the white 
people of the county in actual valuable property was not less 
than five millions of dollars through the manumission of their 
slaves. And through that manumission they lost also, to a 
very great extent, that direction and command of labor, which, 
previously, had been almost absolute ; and, consequently, the 
productiveness of that labor was likely to be greatly reduced. 
However, during the year 1865 the movement amongst the 
colored people seeking new homes was not very great, as they, 
too, seemed to be somewhat uncertain as to the future. 
About the middle of June the first United States troops 
arrived at Newberry and were stationed under command of 
Capt. Murray. Under military orders from him all contracts 
with laborers were to be reduced to writing, and the culti- 
vators of the soil, field laborers, were to receive one-third of 
the produce as compensation for their labor. Capt. Murray, 
with his men, was soon removed to another station and Gen. 
Van Wyck succeeded him. During his stay here Gen. Van 
Wyck used the college building as barracks for his soldiers, 
whence they issued, apparently at their own sweet will, and 
robbed orchards, watermelon patches and made requisitions 
generally upon the country around. While thus indulging 
their usual taste they were found one day by Mr. J. S. Hair's 
manager, a young Kentuckian Vvho had been a Confederate 
soldier, making rather free with the watermelons and were 
requested or ordered by him to desist from their amusement 
and to seek other fields and pastures new. They being very 
well content where they were refused to accede to his request 
and continued their pleasant pursuit. The young Kentuckian, 
feeling, doubtless, somewhat like the old man who found a 
rude boy up one of his trees stealing apples, thought, that 
as good words and gentle means did not prevail, he might 
lawfully use a little force. So he fired upon them and one 
of the men was slightly wounded. For this offence Hair was 
arrested by the military authorities, but what measure was 
meted to him by them, if any, I do not know, (he was absent 
from home at the time); but the depredating soldiers were 
never punished for their disorderly conduct. But soon after- 
wards a party of them went to Hair's place, applied the 
incendiary torch to the house and burned it to the ground. 



702 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



Calvin Crozier. 



Calvin Crozier, a Confederate soldier from Texas, who met 
death at Newberry, deserves more from the historian of the 
county than the mere mention of his name. From some 
cause, I know not what, he was delayed at Newberry — travel 
was not very expeditious at that time — he had been delayed 
elsewhere so that it was September, several months after the 
cessation of hostilities before he arrived at Newberry where he 
was compelled to remain the night of September Sth, ISO"). 
Some ladies were under his care and they concluded that it 
would be as well to pass the night in the car, a common 
box-car, in which they had come from Alston. Late in the 
night .some colored soldiers belonging to the ;}8d U. S. Regi- 
ment, commanded by Col. Trowbridge, which had arrived at 
Newberry that day on their way to some other station, in- 
truded themselves into the car and made their presence very 
unpleasant to the ladies. Mr. Crozier requested them to leave 
and they refusing to do so a difficulty occurred when one of the 
soldiers w"as slightly Avoundod by Crozier with a knife. The 
regiment to which these colored soldiers belonged was 
bivouacked in a grove not far from the depot, and it was 
not long before a number of them assembled at the depot. 
Not knowing Crozier and mistaking their man they seized 
upon a railroad employee, Mr. Jacob S. Bowers, who had 
just come in, and despite his protestations of his innocence, 
they were about to lynch him, when Crozier, learning that 
another man was about to suffer in his stead, presented him- 
self and declared that he was the man who had wounded the 
negro soldier. He was seized at once, tied and taken to the 
camp in the grove, where he was shot to death by the soldier 
mob, who danced upon the shallow grave into which they 
had thrown the body. The white officers of the regiment, 
before the shooting, were appealed to in vain, and Trow- 
bridge, the Colonel commanding the regiment, was heard to 
declare after the shooting that he took upon himself all the 
responsibility for the act. 

Too seldom, indeed, do we find such deeds of heroic self- 
sacrifice as this that is here recorded of Calvin Crozier. He had 
escaped, 'and he might have gone entirely free and might have 
reached his home in safety could he have permitted another 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 763 

man to suffer in his place. What ever he may have been 
otherwise I know not ; but this I know that such a death 
works forgiveness for many misdeeds and the place where he 
died and where he sleeps is holy. If any spot on earth is 
holy surely that is where one freely gives himself to die for 
another. 

Prince Rivers, who was then an officer in Trowbridge's 
regiment, wishing to save the life of a brave man, went to 
him after he was bound and helpless and begged him to say 
that ho was not the man who had the difficulty with the 
negro soldiers, and Mr. Crozier refused to do it saying, "Loose 
me and I will show you whether I am the man or not." 

In 1801 the citizens of Newberry had the remains of Grozier 
removed from the Village graveyard to Rosemont Cemetery 
and erected a monument to his memory. The monument is a 
Vjeautiful one and the citizens of Newberry have honored 
themselves in erecting this monument to the memory of Crozier. 



Murder of Chesley Herbert. 

This community was greatly shocked when it was known 
here that Capt. Chesley W. Herbert, a man much beloved by 
all who knew him and highly esteemed for his truth, braverj" 
and uprightness of character, had met with the shocking 
death of murder. Capt. Herbert was born in the county, son 
of Isaac Herbert and grandson of Walter Herbert, Esq., a 
member of one of the old Quaker families of Bush River, 
but who, after the Quaker exodus, united with another denomi- 
nation of Christians. Chesley Herbert was Captain of a com- 
pany at the close of the war, a rank well won by his faithful 
service as a soldier. He was a man of education, a graduate 
of the' South Carolina College, of devoted piety and blameless 
in all the relations of life. His would seem to have been a 
sad ending. His death was brought about in this wise : A 
negro man, whose name I have never heard, stole a horse 
from him one day at Newberry ; he pursued and captured 
the thief and property some where in the neighborhood of 
Lexington C. H., and started on his return to Newberry. 
The next that is known of him his dead body was found 
near a spring a few miles from Lexington C. H. and near 



764 AXXALS OF NEWBERBY. 

the road leading from Lexington to Newberry. The body was 
terribly bruised and battered and there was a pistol shot or 
gun shot through the back of the head. It is not known 
precisely how the murder occurred, but I have been told that 
Capt. Herbert had the negro man tied and when they stopped 
to rest and refresh themselves by the spring, after Herbert 
had eaten a lunch the negro begged him to free his hands 
so that he also could eat something without so much incon- 
venience to himself. Capt. Herbert yielding to the impulse of 
humanity, granted his request, and then, not being sufficiently 
wary and watchful, the negro struck him unawares, stunned 
him, and finally shot him through the head with his own 
gun or pistol. The assassin was arrested in a short time, 
tried and convicted of murder at the following, October, term 
of Court at Lexington, but afterwards broke jail and escaped. 
He was afterwards captured and hung. 

In November, 180(), there M^as an emigration of quite a 
goodly number of negroes from the United States, and some 
from Newberry, to the far-off land of Liberia, a Republic of 
colored people on the west coast of Africa. About one hundred 
and fifty went from this county, most of most unlettered field- 
hands. But some few from the town were quite intelligent 
with some education. Burrell Raines, the tailor, is one who 
went. But he, with several others, returned the next year, 
preferring his old home with all its disadvantages to the 
jungles of the African coast. Raines has done well since his 
I'eturn and has always been a quiet, orderly and well-behaved 
man. The others I know nothing of. 

Field labor during the year 1866 had been very poor and 
inefficient, much wox'se than in 1865, and the crops were, in 
consequence, both of food stuffs and cotton, very scant. The 
fields had less tillage than I have ever known them to have 
during any year before or since the war. But cotton brought 
a high price, and from the rich lands of the West and North- 
west a great deal of corn and flour was sent here and else- 
where to be distributed among the needy without price. 

At the close of the year there was a little light low down 
on the political horizon as if day were about to break. But 
on the nth of April, 18()7, Gen. Sickles, military commander. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 765 

in fact, military and civil Governor and Legislature of the 
State all in one, issued his celebrated order, known as order 
No. 10, which became the supreme law of the State, super- 
ceding^ all others, and regulating all the business affairs of 
the [)eople in every particular ; regulating all affairs, both 
civil and criminal, all proceediog:^ of Courts both law and 
equity ; touching and regulating every thing but the subject 
of religion : and that I suppose the Governor-General did 
not think about, as he probably had none of his own, and 
so, even if the subject occurred to him he dismissed it as a 
mutter of no importance. This order was confirmed by act 
of Congress and the State was thus placed entirely under 
uiilitary rule. By military order an election was held for 
county officers in June. In October of the same year the 
same power ordered an election to be held for delegates to 
frame a Constitution. It has already been stated that the 
Convention met in 1808, and a Constitu.tion was framed and 
adopted which is still the Constitution of the State, so that 
we are now, whether we will or no, under the rule and man- 
agement of affairs arranged and set going by the military 
and carpet-baggers. Meantime Gen. Canby had been ap- 
pointed military Governor in place of Gen. Sickles, who had 
been sent elsewhere. It was he who removed Judge Aldrich 
because he refused to permit colored men to serve as jurors ; 
it was he who ordered the election for delegates to the Con- 
stitutional Convention ; and it was he, or R. K. Scott, after 
lie was elected Governor, who appointed County Commissioners 
for Newberry, ignoring an election that had been held by his 
own order for that piarpose. D. E. Phifer was one of his 
appointees, 1871. 

On the 17th of October, 18(58, a (piarrel arose between 
Sam. Dogan, a colored man, who had been somewhat con- 
sjncuous for some time, a man of sufficient courage but not 
of sufficient brain capacity to become the leader he aspired 
to be — at the time County Commissioner, one of the appointees 
above mentioned — and a young Nvhite man named Murtishaw, 
a native and citizen living iu Ihe northeastern ])art of the 
county. That afternoon as Mur'ishaw, D. M. Ward and some 
other young men were ridi :'.;>■ out of town tbey were tired 
upon by a concealed party mui- M:;iu Street witbin tlu' cor 



766 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

porate limits of the town, not far from the Episcopal Church. 
Ward's horse was killed and Ward himself was so seriously 
wounded that he has been lame ever since and must continue 
so during life. 

On Monday following Murtishaw and Clarence Fitzgerald, 
a Tennesseean by birth, but who had married and was living 
in this county, a neighbor of Murtishaw's, believing, from all 
the circumstances connected with the affair, that armed men 
had been seen that Saturday evening coming out of Lee 
Nance's house and from other suspicious matters, that he was 
cognizant of, if not an instigator of the assault, went armed 
into his little retail store, which he kept on Main Street, and 
shot him dead while he was behind his counter. The Sheriff 
as soon as possible got a squad of soldiers from the military 
commandant at this place and went in pursuit of the young 
men, but failed to capture them. Of their fates since then I 
know nothing. Whether living or dead, they have vanished. 
W^here are last year's flowers, last year's leaves, last year's 
joys ? Vanished. 

And yet just after writing the above I received a letter from 
my old friend, Dr. P. B. Ruff, sending me a cheerful anec- 
dote of which he knew so many, in the conclusion of which 
he said : "There are periods in most lives when care, and 
sorrow, and perplexity seem to declare a truce and leave the 
man to the unmixed enjoyment of the delights of living. 
My situation pretty much." Happy, good old man ! The 
exuberant joys of youth and manhood may evaporate 
and vanish, but when care and sorrow and perplexity have 
declared a truce, does not life become more beautiful than 
ever before? So then it is not always true as the poet sings: 
"The Beautiful has vanished and returns not." 

So the State continued under military reconstruction rule 
until the adoption of the Constitiation of 1808, then under 
Radical domination until the Democratic victory of 1870, just 
one hundred years after the Declaration of Independence of 
the United States (Colonies) at Philadelphia in 1770. 

Peace and prosperity have followed the people of the State 
and the people of Newberry from that day .to this. And if 
we take a survey of the county to-day, January 1st, 1898, 
and look at the well-tilled fields and the abundant crops of 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 707 

cotton and corn which have just been harvested, we must con- 
clude that never before was it more prosperous. And, not- 
withstanding the several disastrous fires since the war and 
the heavy losses consequent thereon, the town has continued 
to grow and prosper, and at no time has business been more 
safe or given a better return for the investment of capital. 
From the very first Newberry has had a steady and sure 
growth, indicative of solid prosperity, never jerky and spas- 
modic. 

On the night of June 18th, 1860, was the first great tire 
at Newberry after the war. It swept through the town from 
northwest to southeast, burning everything in its way almost 
without let or hindrance, as there was no fire engine and no 
organized tire department, or tire company, here at the time. 
Ten or twelve stores were burned and several dwelling houses. 
Loss estimated at not less than one hundred and fifty thous- 
and dollars, with very little insurance. All was done that 
could be done to save property from destruction. The colored 
people on this occasion were rather slow to help, but they 
have long since corrected the backwardness that they then 
showed, and now the hook and ladder company, composed 
entirely of colored men, is frequently first upon the field in 
time of danger and alarm and always does efficient work. 
This great tire of 1866 was supposed to have been the work 
of an incendiary, and immediately thereafter was formed a 
volunteer patrol company for the purpose of guarding the 
town and securing it from suffering an infliction of a like 
calamity. But everything continuing entirely quiet and there 
being no indications of danger of any kind, after a very brief 
existence the volunteer patrol company died a natural death, 
and that there ever had been such an organization was soon 
almost entirely forgotton. 

On the 8th of March, 1877, about 4 o'clock in the after- 
noon, the old Hotel building, which had been standing ever 
since the year 1820, was discovered to be on tire. The 
weather had been dry for some time and soon the whole 
building was in flames. In a short time all the adjoining 
buildings on Main Street to the next corner were on tire, 
together with those on both sides east of Adams Street. 



768 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY 

The wind was blowing briskly from the south or southwest 
aad soon the sky became evercast with clouds with every 
indication of rapidly approaching rain. Early in the evening 
after sunset the rain began to fall in very copious showers 
and the fire rapidly subsided, and the next morning all that 
central part of the town was a mass of smoldering, smoking 
ruins. If Providence had not sent the rain the fire must 
have swept through to the extreme northeastern limit of the 
town, for there was nothing to prevent it. The loss was at 
least $150,000, with insurance of .$00,000. 

Since the great fire of March 8th, 1877, there have bei-n 
--everal others in the central business part of the town t'lat 
did a great deal of damage. One on February 17th, 1S7U. 
which occurred early in the night, and which burnt Julius 
Smith's large two story building at the corner where once 
stood his celebrated Tupper House, and also J. D. Cash's 
new two story building adjoining, and others on Main or 
Pratt Street, south of and near the Courthouse. The Court- 
house itself was saved with difiiculty as it was on fire more 
than once. I saw Mr. Gilliland make trial after trial to out 
the flames, that seemed as though they would not be put out, 
but he at last succeeded and the Courthouse was saved. The 
wood work was on fire just under the roof at the southeastern 
corner of the building. One on July 19, 1883, that burnt the 
buildings on Mollohon Row, which had withstood the great 
fires of 18GG and 1877, besides a fire in 1883 that destroyed 
three stores in rear of it on Pratt Street. The fire department 
had just been organized, but there was no water supply. A 
small quantity of water from Mower's cistern was thrown by 
the engine on the front of the buildings on Boyce Street and 
saved them just in the nick of time. The water in the cistern 
being soon exhaiisted, the engine was moved to Scott's creek 
and Avater thrown through one thousand feet of hose to the 
roof of the Crotwell building, then being rebuilt, whence it was 
caught in buckets as it flowed down the gutters and dashed 
upon the flames. The Newberry Hotel was saved by keeping 
blankets thoroughly wet with water carried in buckets upon 
the roof. The building was also protected by a row of shade 
trees on the street, just thirty feet wide, from the fierce flames. 
The loss by this fire was |100,0()0, with insurance of i?41,r)00. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 7G9 

There have been some other small fires with very slight 
damages. But, speaking of fires, I think it probable that the 
9th day of March, 1855, was one of the most fiery days ever 
known in South Carolina, scarcely excepting General Sher- 
man's fiery trail that he left trailing behind him in 1865 as 
he marched through the State. If Sherman had been a man 
ho would have owned up to having burnt Columbia and say 
that he did right. 

I do not know that the loss of pi-operty was very great on 
the 9th or March, 1855, except in the way of fences around 
farms and plantations. But a greiit deal of fencing and of 
timber in the woois was destroyed. I remember the morning 
and the day, as though it were only yesterday. I was then 
living on what is known as tho li im ige Place, two and a 
half miles south of Newberry. The morning was mild and 
pleasant and the air was as still and quiet as October's balm- 
iest weather. I walked up to Newberry, and stopped at Mr. 
Henry Summer's law office, at, I suppose, about half past U 
o'clock. The wind was still when I went in, but .soon began 
to rise and when I left the office it was blowing a perfect 
gale. But still there was no indication of fire anywhere 
about. On my way home I called at a neighbor's and re- 
mained to dinner. Still no appearance of fire. While we 
were eating dinner a servant came in and told us that there 
was fire towards the Ramage Place. I did not stay to finish 
my dinner, but immediately left for home. When I came out 
of the house and looked around I saw fires in every direc- 
tion, some near and some far off. The whole county was 
ablaze and the wind was blowing with great violence. Before 
I got home the fire had already swept through the place, 
burning fences and timber, but no buildings, as they, for- 
tunate?j% were not in its course. The whole country was burnt 
over, on that day, from the mountains to the seaboard, and 
in woodland portions of the country many buildings werp 
destroyed. I have had many fights with fire, but that fire 
could not be met in front. 

Sky Glows, Cyclones, Earthquakes, Freshet^. 
About the first of November, 1883, began those wonderful 
morning and evening sky glows, which attracted the att3nticn 
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770 ANXALS OF XE'^BEEEY. 

of the world for so long a time, and for which no satisfactory 
explanation has ever been given. Some have supposed that 
the earth became enveloped in an immense cloud of cosmic 
or star-dust. Others suggested that the terrific volcanic erup- 
tions of the preceding year in the East threw up so much 
earthy material in exceedingly fine particles, that the whole 
atmosphere of the earth became completely filled with it 
through the long continued dry weather, so that of mornings 
and evenings the sky would glow with an unwonted lustre, 
the beams of the sun being reflected from the fine particles 
of dust. Whatever may have been the cause, it was, at first, 
high up in the atmosphere far above the region of the clouds 
and gradually sank lower until it came to the surface of the 
earth and was absorbed. Diiring the following winter the air 
was more heavily charged with electricity than I had ever 
known it to be at any previous time. On February 19th, 
1884, and for some time following, came those wonderful 
cyclones, that swept over this whole State, and other parts of 
the world, with unprecedented violence. 

The cyclone that swept over the State in the afternoon 
and night of February 19th, 1884, doing so much damage in 
places, destroying Chappell's Depot and the village around it, 
and St. Matthew's Church, in this county, did not touch the 
town of Xewberry. It struck Chappells about seven o'clock 
with terrific force. Wash. M. Boazman had a leg and arm 
broken which crippled him for life; C. T>. Shuford, a railroad 
man from North Carolina, there at work on the new depot, 
was killed; ^Yill Smith had his arm badly hurt. These men 
were in the second story of Geo. T. Reid's store, which was 
totally wrecked and his goods blown entirely away. Mr. Reid's 
loss was ^9,000. His residence was also destroyed, and Mrs. 
Reid and the children miraculously escaped death. A little 
negro child was also killed. The residences of D. M. Dickert 
and Mrs. Rosalie Simkins were blown down. Mrs. Dickert had 
her skull slightly fracturel and Mrs. Simkins had an arm 
broken. There were other casualties and destruction of pro- 
perty at Chappells. Six out of eight freight cars were blown 
forty feet and their contents scattered to the Avinds. The storm 
next struck on the other side of the county and its havoc there 
was just as great. Every building on Cajit. D. A. Dickert's 



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place Avas demolished except his I'osidence, making a loss of 
$2,000. Tho residences of Charles P. Dickort, Wm. Heller 
and others in that section wore blown down. Some of the- 
peculiar evidences of the force of the cyclone was showu 
in blowinfj a scantling through a bale of cotton at ChappelLs 
and a shingle through a pine tree near St. Matthew's Church. 
There were other like instances. An observer near Chappells^ 
who was not in the cyclone, but about a mile away southward orv 
the Edgefield side of Saluda, in a letter written to me a short 
time after it passed, thus describes the appearance of the 
cyclone: "The upper part of the cloud was jet black; tbe' 
lower and southern side was startling in its brilliancy — not 
of a reddish color, but* precisely that of flame, so luminous 
and glowing that I could see objects in the yard distinctlv. 
I then said 'it must be a cyclone,' which thought made me 
watch it more closely. It seemed to bo pointed, or fiuanel- 
shaped, the point down and whirling, just as I imagine- a. 
maelstrom. I saw no lightning, that is, flashes of lightning-^, 
in the cloud — it was too bright. Every one I have spoken to- 
about it who saw the cloud agrees as to its luminous ap- 
pearance." 

From this description I conclude that the cloud shone with 
a steady flame. It luust have been a most magnificent sight.. 

From other sections of the county I learn that rooms inb 
houses in which persons were, in some instances seemed to ha- 
on fire, or to have flames or balls of fire playing and rolling 
about. In one instance an old gentleman thought of trying 
to put the fire out with a bucket of water, but concluded it 
was useless to try it. 

From these data and from my own observations of clouds- 
and the lighting, especially of those clouds that throw down 
(quantities of hail, I conclude that electricity is a very impor- 
tant agent in the production of cyclones and hailstorms. I 
conclude also that a hail-bearing cloud is a cyclone in the 
upper air. All observers tell us that cyclones, after sweeping 
the surface of the earth for some distance, frequently bound 
upwards and pass high up through the air without touching 
the tops of even the highest trees. The one near Jalapa oti. 
the morning of March 0th, 1884, touched the earth for a^ 
short time and distance only, and as it rose it tore off the- 



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tops of trees in its passage and passed away doing no fiu-tlier 
hurt. That cloud, too, was intensely electrical, throwing out 
angry flashes of lightning and hail in considerable quantities. 

On the 13th of September, 1892, there were two terrific 
tornadoes in Newberry County about three o'clock in the after- 
noon, — one in the lower part of the county and the other in 
the upper. One of the greatest r>ufferers in the lower section 
was Mr. John A. Shealy, whose residence was a mass of ruins, 
and whose stables, barns and outhouses were razed to the 
ground. Mr. and Mrs. Shealy were both absent from home, but 
hearing the roaring and seeing the approach of the storm, they 
hastened homewards. The children were playing in the lot, not 
thinking of danger. Mr. Shealy was in time to get them into 
the house. Mrs. Shealy was caught a short distance from the 
the house. The telegraph wire came dov.'n with a crash and 
she was caught and entangled in its clutches. The house was 
lifted from its pillars, and the roof was torn to fragments 
and carried with the winds. The whole house was a ruin in 
less time than it takes me to write it. No one was hurt physi- 
cally. A large piece of timber was driven through the ceiling 
of the room in which Mr. Shealy and the children had taken 
refuge. John Riddle's dwelling house was blown to pieces, but 
the family were fortunately from home on a visit. In the mid- 
dle of his corn field, which was about the centre of the storm 
track, there were found large piles of rock, as if they had been 
hauled there by human hands. The farms of Mike Bowers, 
H. P. Dominick, D. L. Long, Adam Hartman, M. D. Long and 
others were in the path of the storm. Bales of seed cotton were 
blown away and the growing crops destroyed. Locust Grove 
school house was torn to pieces. Large trees were seen sweep- 
ing through the air, curling and twisting about, and a large one 
lodged in front of G. M. Shealy's store; whence it came no 
one knows. The town of Newberry helped the sufferers with 
a liberal subscription of money. 

The storm in the upper portion of the county occurred about 
the same hour, 3 P. M. It was almost as violent, and did con- 
siderable damage. It first struck L. P. W. Riser's place, near 
the Laurens line, destroying cotton and corn, and passed to 
the plantation of John W. Scott, blo\^ing down tenants' houses 
a:id breaking the arm and lesr of one child and the nrm of 



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773 



another, and scattering farniture and clothing. All the Loises 
on the Thos. F. Ray place were demolished except the gin- 
house and part of the dwelling house. Several houses on Wade 
Anderson's place were demolished, and the storm passed thence 
in the direction of Avery's ford on Enoree River. 

The general direction of both these storms was from south- 
west to northeast. The lower one passed near Mount Tabcr 
Lutheran Church, and the upper one not far away from 
Mount Tabor Methodist Church. 

In the year 188G there was a great freshet throughout the 
South. The downpour of rain began in Newberry County 
about the middle of May, and continued almost without inter- 
mission until the lirst of June. Railroad tracks and bridges 
were washed away and Newberry was completely cut off about 
a week from communication with the outside woi'ld, and then 
only by way of Laurens and Augusta, whence supplies of food 
for man and beast were obtained. Our condition was critical, 
as the supply of provisions in the .stores grew small indeed 
before a train could come through. The damage to the Co- 
lumbia and Greenville Railroad along Broad and Saluda 
Rivers amounted to $100,000. It took a large construction 
force three weeks to repair the damages before trains could 
run through between Columbia and Greenville. On the 21st 
of June, just as the trains had begun their regular schedules, 
the rains again came down and the tracks were washed away 
for the second time within six weeks. The rain finally ceased 
about the first of July, and railroad and mail connections were 
restored in about ten days. 

On the 31st of August, 1886, came the earthquake that devas- 
tated the city of Charleston and left many of its fine build- 
ings in ruins. Newberry suffered but little ; some few chim- 
neys and weik walls were injured, but the damage was not 
great. The firm granite rock that underlies this part of the 
country is not liable to very great volcanic disturbance. 

Since 1880 the rainfall has been unusually great. In the 
great freshet of September, 1888, the water in Saluda, to say 
nothing of other streams, rose to a greater depth than had 
ever been known before. The high water mark at Chappells 
marks now, since that freshet, live feet higher than ever be- 
fore. In Broad River, however, the freshet was not as great 
as that of 1880. 



"774 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

It seems to me that all these phenomena are connected to- 
gether, one with the other, and indicate that the deep interior 
forces of nature are at work preparing for some great change. 
And that change, whatever it may bo, will be for good. 

« 
Dedication of the Opera House. 

The Opera House being quite an institution of Newberry 
tind a prominent feature of the town, the following account of 
the dedication, with a copy oE the Dedication Ode read on 
the occasion by Mr. Jaeger, the raithor, will, I hoj)e, be 
acceptable to the readers of these Annals. I take the fol- 
lowing from the Newberry Neics of February 24th, 1882: 

^'The Newberry Opera Houses finished and complete in all its 
-parts and appointments was dedicated last Monday night. On 
the stage were Mayor J. P. Pool, Aldermen J. Y. McFall, 
T>. W. T. Kibler, Geo. A. Langford and D. M. Ward f Presi- 
dent Holland of Newberry College, Capt. A. P. Pifer of the 
Female Academy, Capt. O. L. Schumpert of the Thespian 
Club, Gen. Y. J. Pope and Mr. C. G. Jaeger. The interest- 
ing ceremonies were begun by Gen. Pope, who represented 
the Mayor and Aldermen, and who spoke in fitting words of 
the gentlemen who had ei-ected the bulling by their money, 
brain and "brawn ; and he likewise expressed the appreciation 
of the citizens at having so magnificent and serviceable a 
.■structure. Then followed a varied entertainment, consisting 
<of very sweet and beautiful music and singing by Mrs. F. O. 
bailey, of Newberry, and Mrs. Warren Davis, of Charleston, 
and remarks by Profs. Holland and Pifer and Capt. Schum- 
pert; the former expressing thanks for the use of the build- 
mo- for commencement and other exercises, the latter for school 
exhibitions, and Capt. Schumpert spoke in behalf of the Thespian 
corps ; at the close of which Mr. Jaeger, whose brilliant mind 
is recognized wherever he is known, read the following poem 
composed by him for the happy occasion : 

This stately fabric by noble spirits planned, 
Designed with art and reared by skillful hand; 
This radiant hall where light with beauty vies, 
Whether the brighter shine is from jets or eyes; 
These scenes that shift from town to forests hush, 

* The Opera House was built under the administration of this City 
"Council. 



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That sprung thus lifelike from the artist's brush; 
The far-seen tower that greets the coming guest 
And tells him, "Stay ! for here 'tis well to rest"; 
This noble pile from ground to heaven's blue, 
Was planned, was built and was adorned for j'ou; 
For you, to here forget the daily strife. 
Strip off the care, the turmoil of this life; 
To here commune with spirits of the past 
And learn that nothing but the good will last; 
To leave behind this mighty lust of pelf. 
And to forget this little selfish self. 
Let music tremble through your willing breast, 
And feel for o'ne short hour that you are blest; 
Let merry laughter chase your cares away 
And gather vigor for another day. 
Behold the vrorld ! between these narrow slides 
There lives and moves what here on earth abides. 
No phantom he whom on these boards you see. 
The only man, the real man is he. 
He opes his heart, truth through his lashes beams; 
He shows you what he is, not what he seems. 
We build this world, destroy it with a crash. 
But with the passing of the lightening^ flash 
We build it up anew. 

For king, for peasant, valiant knight or knave, 
For all, here stands the cradle — there the grave. 
We plant the seed ; at once burst leaf and flower, 
And here a life is lived within an hour. 
What we create can never know decay. 
It lives and moves and moves and lives for aye; 
Forever with immortal laurel wreathed, 
And Hamlet lives, though Hamlet never breathed. 
Here may be heard what often has been told 
Of fiery tongues, the magic tongues of old ; 
Where eloquence has taught the Right to do. 
To strengthen Virtue and enforce the True. 
Listen ! the air with distant music filled. 
You cannot understand — but 3'ou are thrilled; 
The strains that tremble on your willing ear. 
They swell from yonder and they echo here — 
Subduing hatred and to kindle love, — 
Perhaps thej-'re messengers from spheres above. 
And over all there hovers Beauty's sheen. 
The vesture of a presence felt, not seen; 
A veil of grace that o'er this world is thrown, 
' Revealing, as it hides, a world unknown. 
We've done ! and now we dedicate this Hall 
For you, for those to come — for one, for all — 
And may its spell and fragrance ne'er depart ! — 
To Beauty, Music, Eloquence and Art. 

"The programme closed with a charming chorus by Mrs. 
Bailey's large singing class, assisted by several gentlemen in 
appropriate costumes. And thus pleasantly ended the dedica- 
tion of the Newberry Opera House." 

Charles Gustav Jaeger, the writer of the foregoing Ode, 
was born in Germany, and was a student in the University 



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of Heidelberg at the same time with Dr. O. B. Mayer. But 
they never met until long after their student life had closed 
and Mr. Jaeger had come to this countrj^ Mr. Jaeger, like 
many of the German youth, and especially the youth of the 
Universities, when quite a young man became deeply imbued 
with republican principles and in 1848, when almost all Europe 
was in a blaze of revolution', took part with the people who 
wished to i-emove the old order of things and establish a new 
and, they fondly hoped, a better in a form giving to the 
]>eople a larger degree of liberty than they had ever known. 
A reaction, however, took place, the revolution was quickly 
suppressed and many of tbo revolutionists had to flee for 
their lives from a country which they then found entirely too 
hot for them. Mr. Jaeger escaped from the city ia Avhich he 
was at that time through the connivance of the lieutenant 
commanding the guard at the gate, they having been fellow- 
students at the University in former years. 

Mr. Jaeger is, or was, a fine musician and for soiije time 
gave lessons at the Female School at Cokesbury, in Abbeville 
County. He was also professor and teacher of music at the 
Laurens Female College; and while there on some occasion 
i-ead a lecture on music which was afterwards printed. It is 
one of the finest compositions I ever read, and is like a strain 
of music pure and ethereal, breathing the highest and teuderest 
sentiments possible for heart to conceive or pen to write. 
But like the poet Shelley, Mr. Jaeger w^anted one thing with- 
out which it is impossible for genius, no matter how great, to 
be consistent throughout and to do a perfect work. 



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■ XIV. 
SHIFTING SCENES AND CHANGES. 

I feel that I cannot better close my labors on this work 
than by briefly noting some of the changes that have taken 
place in family names, the disappearance of some and the 
incoming of others, since the publication of O'Neall's Annals. 
I have long observed, with a great deal of interest and cu- 
riosity, the continual change that is going on in the compo- 
nent parts of the crowds of men and women that fill the 
streets from day to day. x\lways the same movement and 
bustle going on; the same kind of anxious look on the faces 
passing continually; the same slir and push in business; the 
same buviDsr and sellinof; success and failure treading on 
each other's heels. But when I look closely and examine the 
individuals that compose the crowd of fighters and stragglers 
and bargainors, I find that familiar faces are vanishing every 
day and new ones taking their places. Some seek other fields 
for the exercise of their energy, and some, the larger number, 
vanish from earth by the ever-lasting process of death. To 
me it seems as though it were only yesterday when Robert 
Stewart, McMorries & Brother, William Martin, S. T. Agnew, 
Walker & Glenn, W. G. Mayes, and many others, whose 
names I cannot now call to mind, were active business men 
here and men of power in their spheres. 

Then there was Julius Smith, the dispenser of the ardent 
at the Tupper House down here at the corner, and who kept 
a clean house, if it be possible for a house of that kind to be 
so kept. He and all those named have vanished. I believe 
there are no tailors here now except Burrell Raines. In those 
old days there was O'Connor, whose shop was on Caldwell 
Street, opposite the present front of the Newberry Hotel. 
Joseph Mooney's shop was at the corner of Adams and Main 
Streets, where now stands a brick house, owned by G. S. 
Mower and occupied by Eddy Brothers. Mr. Mooney's dwell- 
ing was a brick house standing on ground now covered by 
the Crotwell Hotel. James Guy was also a tailor here once, 
a native of Newberry, and a good and worthy man and a 
most inveterate smoker. He worked, I think, with Mr. Mooney 



778 ANNALS OF NEWBEERY. 

for a time, or was a partner of his, or perhaps both. And 
Harrington & Guy once kept a ready-made clothing store on- 
Main Street, in a room on the ground floor of the old hotel 
building that stood where the Newberry Hotel now is. Pat- 
rick Scott was also a tailor for many years from 1858 to his 
death; his place of business was on the corner of Friend and 
Caldwell Streets. All these with their works, their cares and 
their anxieties have passed away. But the world's work goes 
on as earnestly as ever. There is no abatement, no rest, no 
cessation. And m§n went to law then as eagerly as now. 
They joined issue and fought sometimes to their very last 
dollar about matters that they might have settled much better 
and much more satisfactorily without resort to law than with 
it. The eloquent tongues of those old lawyers are now silent 
in death. Jack Caldwell and Jemmy J. Caldwell, as they were 
always familiarly called, I never knew. The first had died 
and the other had been made Chancellor and had gone to 
Columbia to live before I knew much about Newberry. 

As an instance of the great physical strength and activity of 
Mr. Jack Caldwell, as my old friend called him, I was once told 
by Mr. David Stephens, of the Dead Fall section, that he had 
seen Mr. Caldwell put a horse at full gallop and dismount 
and mount twice in the distance of one hundred yards without 
checking the speed of the horse. He must have been a man 
of wonderful endowments both of mind and body. I do not 
remember ever seeing him. His brother, the Hon. P. C. Cald- 
well, I saw on several occasions. James J. Caldwell I never 
knew. My father knew and loved him. 

I remember Thomas H. Pope — his brother Charles was for 
a few months a schoolmate of mine. Ah, what a boy Charley 
was. Henry Summer, Simeon Fair, A. C. Garlington, James M. 
Baxter, I knew well — all good lawyers, and one of them, A. C. 
Garlington, grandly eloquent sometimes, and having the finest 
and most melodious voice of any public speaker that it was 
ever my good fortune to hear. These are all gone, but the 
Bar is still full. 

As it is with the business men and lawyers of the town, so 
also is it with those who look to the spiritual welfare of the 
people and physicians of the body. And as it is with these, 
so is it with the great body of the people over the country. 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 779 

Names and families disappear and others come in and take 
their places. Some names mentioned by Judge O'Neall in his 
Annals have entirely passed away and those who bore them 
are well nigh forgotten. The name O'Neall itself is no longer 
borne by any one in Newberry; the blood is here still, but 
the name is gone. And many others that were once names 
of power and influence have clean vanished. Some, however, 
seem to be perennial and to cling to the soil as firmly as ivy 
to an old castle wall. And though they may send off many 
shoots and branches to distant lands, they retain firm hold 
upon the soil where they first took root after their transplant- 
ing across the sea. 

It is my purpose in this section to mention the names of 
some of those old families and settlers enumerated in O'Neall's 
Annals, now never, or seldom, heard, and then the names of 
new comers, as far as I may be able to do so. 

This movement of men, nations and families has been going 
on from the very earliest ages. Like bees swarming from a 
hive, the superabundant inhabitants of a country overflow its 
bounds and seek less densely populated regions, or regions 
inhabited by weaker races, whom they can dispossess and 
drive out, or conquer. So the Goths and Yandals overflowed 
Southern Europe on the decline of the Eoman power, pene- 
trated even into Africa, and wasted themselves in the equato- 
rial regions of upper Egypt and Abyssinia. So the Tartars 
and Turks swept down from Middle and Northern Asia, over- 
came the empire of Persia, planted themselves in Southern 
Europe on the ruins of the Greek Empire, where, becoming 
stationary, they entered upon a slow but sure decay. So the 
people of Europe in modern times, moved by the spirit of 
adventure and seeking new worlds to conquer, passed the 
deep sea, which was once thought impassable, found a new 
world, dispossessed the Red man of his home in the wilder- 
ness, civilized him off the face of the earth, and planted 
a mighty nation, or family of nations, in the Western 
world. And there is still no rest. The movement still goes 
on. Migration follows migration in one eternal flow without 
end. Even Newberry, which is "the garden spot of the garden 
spot of the world," is insufiicient to still the restless spirit 
and keep its children at home. And this no doubt is well. 



<80 ANNALS OF NEWBEREY. 

StroDg, energetic movecaent is life, or is indicative of a great 
and superabundant supply of life. Repose, stillness, save for 
temporary and necessary rest, end in a stagnation ot all the 
vital currents and forces, which is death. As long as the 
people of this country give juanifestations of strong and ener- 
getic life, we need have no fears of the speedy approach of 
decay. It is not alvv'ays progress but 'movement that the 
world wants. Stagnant water becomes corrupt and ioathesome; 
stagnant air breeds pestilence and death. Earthquakes, storms 
and tempests free the soil, water and air, from poisonous mat- 
ter, which would ultimately destroy all life did they not occur. 
Even war acts as a corrector and stimulator, and, thi-ough the 
agencies of bloodshed and slaughter, gives new life to the 
peoples and nations engaged. Even where and v/hea one na- 
tion fails and is blotted out it is only exemplifying that great 
law of nature, "tb-e survival of the fittest." 

Taking this philosophic view of the subject, it is no suffi- 
cient ground of sorrow or regret that names, which were once 
names of power here, are irow heard no more. Nor should 
we lament that so maoy of our talented and energetic young 
men are seeking to better their fortunes in Texas, in Califor- 
nia, or elsewhere in the far West. Some of my own ancestors, 
in the old time, came from Saxony to England, and long af- 
terwards some came with William of Normandy. Long after- 
wards they passed from England to Virginia and Maryland, 
thence to the region and ])lace now covered by the town of 
Newberry. And now their descendants are everywhere from 
Canada to California, and perhaps in every part of the world. 
It is all right. 

Amongst the many citizens of Newberry who left for the 
West, I must mention here the name of my old friend James 
M. Crosson, Esq., who has })roved himself a worthy representa- 
tive of his old home. There arc Crossons still here — good 
people. Coh Jim is far West. 

I did hope that some one would do for me in regai'd to 
the Southwest what Mr. David Jones has done as to the 
Northwest; but my hope was not fultilled; and I have done 
the best I could. But I must not pass unmentioned Jonathan 
Martin, John I. Houseal and his brother, J. Emlon Houseal, 
who have left Newbf rry since the war to better their fortunes in 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 781 

the West. There are a number of other young men who have 
gone West in the past few years, amongst whom I now recall 
the following: J. Lawson Long, John P. Glasgow, G. Ernest 
Folk, Nathan E. Aull, J. Thornwell Boozer, D. C. Lake— all en- 
gaged ia teaching. Mr. Lake married in Newberry before he 
left, and only last summer Mr. Glasgow returned to Newberr}' 
and took back with him a Newberry girl to share his fortunes. 
^tr. Lake married Miss Drucie Aull and Mr. Glasgow Miss Mallie 
Wheeler. Miss Carrie Aull, one of Newberry's accomplished 
daughters, has also gone to Texas and is engaged in teaching. 
F. L. Schumpert, Charles T. Hunter, Clarence E. Hunter, Daniel 
Maffett, R. A. Welch, Jr., W. M. Feagle and George P. Wright 
are also in Texas engaged in the mercantile business and are 
all doing well. Mr. Wright returned to Newberry, also, for his 
life partner, and was married to Miss Stevio Bowers. John G. 
Piester and family, J. W. Singley and family, and W. S. Birge 
and family, are in the Lone Star State and engaged in farming. 
Mr. Birge has died since leaving Newberry. Jas. B. Wheeler 
settled in California. Prof. C. W. Welch was, also, in Texas for 
several years engaged in teaching, but has recently returned 
to South Cai-olina. 

Among those who have gone to Florida, I can now recall 
Samuel and Frank Teague, E. L. Chalmers, Forrest Lake, Rob- 
ert E. Leavell, Wm. Reagin, and, no doubt, some other worthy 
young men. Also Dr. John M. Thompson and family and Dr. 
and Mrs. J. D. Bruce. S. P. Sligh has been in Florida for a 
number of yeaz's. All these, so far as I am informed, are 
doing well for themselves. Wherever you find the sons and 
daughters of Newberry settled, as a rule, you are going to 
find a thrifty and prosperous population. 

If it be trne, as Mi*. David Jones says, of the great North- 
west, -that Newberry County, S. C, has furnished more men, 
women and children to people and develop that section than 
any other county or district in the United States, I am very 
sure that the same may be said of the great Southwest. 
From the great Northwest, as far as Dakota, down the Missis- 
sippi to Texas, to the orange groves of Florida, g> where yoii 
may you will meet Newberrinns whom you knew here, acing, 
moving and at work — useful a id elevating v/ork. 

Newberry Wcis first settled by ihrifty and industrious Ger- 



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mans, Quakers, Scotch Covenanters and Scotch-Irish; and many 
scions from the old stock are here yet. 

The following names have vanished from the records of the 
county entirely. Thier blood, however, still flows in the veins 
of their descendants of other names ; but their names are now 
only matters of history or tradition, and some of them are 
but dimly remembered and are almost forgotten : Casey, 
Manning, Means, Hampton, Wadlington, Cates, McElduff, Tune, 
Eichelberger, Gray, Cappleman, Wallern, Staley, Souter, Miles, 
Furman, Frost, Patty, McCoole, Hollingsworth, Gilbert, Gal- 
braith, Insco, Spray, Pemberton, Inman, Steddam, Crumpton, 
Jay, Hasket, Kirk, McQuerns, Drennan, Carmichael, Gregg, 
Cameron, Fleming, McCalla, McCreeless, Madigan, Boyce, 
Myrick, Marshall, McKee, McConnell, Gaskins, Malone, Gor- 
don, Littleton, Flanagan, Herndon, Starkes, Tinney, Heuston, 
Grasty, Crenshaw, Finch, Shell, Parks, Cole, Crow, Cross- 
white, Eastland, Parnell, Dun, Allison, Caradine, Hatcher, 
Worthington, Riley, Cothran, Musgrove, Bemount, Ganter, 
Rial, Spillers, Bieler — was a physician — Presnell, Cain, Baldres, 
Cox, Larger, Thwett, Bai'rett, Cureton, Farnandis, O'Neall, 
Hammond, Clark, Downs, Ker, Schoppert, Sherman. These 
names are all extinct in Newberry County and there may be 
others. 

And the name Coate, though not entirely gone is very 
nearly so. I believe that Boliver Coate, a descendant of John 
Coate, the first owner of the land upon which the town of 
Newberry stands, or of a brother of his, left a family of sons 
and daughters in the lower part of the county. I knew him 
slightly many years ago. He married a daughter of Luke 
Nichols, and is long since dead. His brother, John Coate, 
who married a Miss Sims, left only one son, Sims Coate, who 
I believe read medicine, but of this I am not sure, and* went 
to Mississippi many years ago. 

John Coate was a very useful man in his day, and was for 
many years a merchant in Newberry in partnership with 
Robert ■ Stewart, under the firm name of Stewart & Coate. 
He was County Treasurer or Auditor of the county in the 
year ISOG, or 1807, or perhaps both. I know that he held 
some official position, as I remember making returns of prop- 
erty to him, and also receiving pay from the county through 



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liim for taking care of a sick oegro, whom I picked up at 
uiy front gate in the street one night. I must say, however, 
that I took care of him against my will, for I made diligent 
search for the police and for the marshal of the town, and 
being unable to find any of them had the sick man on my 
hands. I also called on some negroes who lived near by, but 
they refused to have any thing to do with him or to help 
him. 

John Coate died at Newberry and was buried in Rosemont 
Cemetery. It is perhaps worthy of note that it was John 
Coate, who first owned the land here, and the last of his 
descendants, or the last of the name, who has lived and died 
here was John Coate. I received a letter, July 16th, 1889, 
from O. S. Coate, whose home is at Wilmington, Clinton 
County, Ohio, and he says that there are quite a number of 
the family near that place, descendants of those who went 
from Newberry to West Milton, Miami County, many years 
ago ; and who, Mr. David Jones, of West Milton, says, "Are 
an honor to Miami County and no discredit to Newberry Dis- 
trict." A fact which I take great pleasure in recording ; as 
I and every other citizen of Newberry must be pleased to 
know that every one who goes from this county does it no 
discredit. 

W. J. Daffie, a native of Chester County — none of the name 
now in Newberry — was for some years bookseller and stationer 
at Newberry, is still living and selling books and ])ublishing 
in Columbia, S. C. E. S. Bailey preceded Mr. Duffie in that 
business — was a watch-maker and jeweller also — son of Amity 
Bailey, whose name, "Amity," was given to the Masonic Lodge 
here ; none of the family are now in the town or county. 
Mr. Townsend was also bookseller at Newberry before the war, 
but before Secession he had removed to Columbia and was 
selling books there during the war in {)artnership with Mr. 
North, under the name of Townsend & North. He died while 
in business there. Mr. Douglas was the first bookseller at 
Newberry and began business here not long after the railroad 
was completed to this place. I believe there is no one bearing 
the name of either Douglas or Townsend in the county. At 
any rate not doing busine.ss in the town. 

J. A. Chapman sold books and stationery for many years 



784 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

in the town of Newberry, beginning the first of the year 1861 
and leaving the business early in the year 1889 — making a 
total of twenty-eight years, having lost, however, the years 
1864 and 1805 by the war, leaving twenty six years devoted 
to bookselling. His son, J. W. Chapman, was owner and pro- 
prieter of the business two or three years at the close. During 
this time Cofield, Petty & Co., of Spartanburg, started the 
same business at Newberry — continued one year and sold to 
Caston and Hunt, who carried on the business for two years, 
when Mr. Caston sold his interest to Mr. Hunt, who continued 
for two years and sold out to Z. F. Wright, who also bought 
out J. W. Chapman ; so that at this time, January, 1S93, 
Mr. Wright is the only bookseller at Newberry. 

It is impossible for me to trace and record all the changes 
in business that have taken place here in the last thirty years, 
or even since the war. Some have grown up quickly and 
vanished speedily. Others seem to have taken deep root, as if 
they were fixed like the oak to stay in one place until they 
died. Many new names have come in since tlie war. George 
McWhirter, Wooten and McWhirter, Wooten from Edgefield 
and McWhirter from Georgia ; names not borne by any per- 
sons living in the County. C. & G. S. Mower, W. T. Tarrant, 
Thomas F. Tarrant, Peoples & Johnson — Peoples came from 
North Carolina many years ago. John O. and his brother, 
W. C. Peoples, were saddle and harness makers by trade. 
When I first knew them they were engaged in business on 
Main Street near where Gary & Cook's store is. Johnson was 
born in Newberry and has lived here ever since his birth, and 
married here. His father was an Englishman and a good man. 
Peoples & Johnson are engaged in the hardware and cutlery 
business on Mollohon Row. S. P. Boozer, then S. P. Boozer 
& Son, natives of Newberry, were in the same line of business. 
Many years ago there was a firm of Duncan, Peoples & Co., 
Silas Johnstone was the Co. T. S. Duncan is now an officer 
in the National Bank of Newberry. Mr. Duncan may not be 
aware of the fact, but he is a man for whom I have long had, 
even from the very beginning of our acquaintance, the very 
highest regard and esteem, though in social life we have 
seldom met. A short time before the war, for a few yea'-s I 
was eno^asred in farming a few miles from town. Mr. Duncan 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 785 

at that time was buying cotton and my partner, w^lio was also 
manager of the farm, sold to him part, or perhaps the whole 
of the crop at a given price. In that transaction appeared the 
strict integrity and honor of the man in business. And now, 
unless he has sailly deteriorated in all these years, I would 
rely uj^ton his word as soon, and as much as I would upon tbe 
bond of any man. In giving Mr. Duncan this high praise I 
do not want to be understood as wishing to disparage any 
other business man. Far from it. Many other business men 
I know to be good and true. In fact, a business man to suc- 
ceed well must not be tricky. But this particular transaction 
touched me very deeply. 

Was the first drugstore kept by Pratt & James, or was it 
W. F. Pratt alone? I first met William Pratt at school at 
Mount Enon, in Edgefield County, ia the year 1885. James 
F. Harrington was at the same school at the time. There 
were also some boys and young men from Edgefield C. H. 
Preston S. Brooks was one of them, and the first sight I ever 
Lad of him he was on the roof of a house just built by Dr. 
E. G. Mayes for a dwelling-house, and a number of boys, 
amongst them Bart. Blocker, on the ground below, were pelting 
him with pine cones, some of which were hard and heavy, and 
he was swearing and pelting them back with all his might. 
If there were any other Newberry boys there at that time I 
do not remember them. Charley Pope was there the next year. 

W. F. Pratt continued in the drug business until his death. 
For a time Motte & Tarrant (H. P.) were druggists at New- 
berry. Also Grierson & Brother, or Grierson & Ferguson. The 
combinations I do not accurately remember. But Dr. Ferguson 
was in business here, and so was Grierson. And now the name 
of Pratt is extinct in Newberry. There is no James, nor Grier- 
son in the county. Maybin & Tarrant (H. P.) also had a drug- 
store for a few years; afterwards Johnstone (Dr. Theodore) <fe 
Maybin. Dr. L. A. East kept the last drug store at Pratt's old 
stand. Dr. W. Iv. Griffin, now living in Georgia, was a drug- 
gist here before the war, also R. H. Land and J. D. Bruce 
about the year I860; and Dr. Sampson Pope a few years since 
the war. Dr. S. F. Fant conducted the drug business for a 
long time, and was succeeded after his death by Cofield (Dr. 
J. E.) & Lyons. At the death of Dr. Cofield, Mr. Lyons retired 
3 C 



<86 ANNALS OF NEWBEBKY. 

from the business and they were succeeded by Dr. Peter Rob- 
ertson and Dr. James K. Gilder. Dr. Robertson is a native of 
Charleston. Dr. Gilder was born in this county, and is a grand- 
son of Dr. James K. Gilder, so long and so favorably known 
as the advocate and practitioner of the botanic, or rather, the 
eclectic system of medicine. Dr. Robertson was in business 
before the death of Dr. Cotield; and after he and Dr. Gilder 
formed their partnership, Drs. Belcher, Houseal & Kibler went 
into business together at the stand ,'just vacated by Dr. Robert- 
son. Dr. W. E. Pelham is also in business hero as a druggist, 
— at first as Pelham & Wardlaw (J. C.) — and has been for a 
number of years. He came from Columbia, and is a son of 

C. P. Pelham, Esq., once editor and publisher of the Guardian, 
an able and influential paper during Mr. Pelham's management 
of it. He died in 1879. These names Pelham, Robertson and 
Belcher are all new in the county. Dr. Belcher is now in busi- 
ness alone. Pope (Dr. D. S.) & Wardlaw were also in the drug 
business after Pelham & Wardlaw dissolved partnership. 

Many other changes have taken place here since the war; 
some even that I know nothing of at the time. But I must 
mention W. H. Webb, who once did quite a large business 
here. He came here during the war and was agent of the 
Confederate Government for the purchase of leather and raw- 
hides. Near the close of the war, being unfit for field service, 
the present writer was assigned to light duty under Capt. 
Webb, who was then at Newberry. After the war he carried 
on several kinds of business for some years quite largely. 
Finally he quit business and moved with his family to Texas, 
where he has recenly died. I think he came from Georgia 
here. I think there are no Webbs living in the count}'-, 
though there are some living not far away in the adjoining 
County of Edgefield. Just after the war B. H. Lovelace and 

D. B. Wheeler were associated with W\ II. Webb. The firm 
was Webb & Lovelace; then it became Lovelace & Wheeler; 
then D. B. Wheeler & Co., W^ W. Houseal being connected 
with the two last named. D. B. Wlieeler succeeded all of these, 
and his successors were Floyd & Purcell (Lou Wash and C. J.), 
and now the firm is Purcell & (M. L.) Spearman. 

W. G. Mayes and Brother, before the war — they are both 
gone — Mayes & Martin after the war, did a general mercantile 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEKY. 787 

business, especially in hardware and family groceries— sold 
also cotton gins. Since the death of W. G. Mayes, J. N, 
Martin has continued a business of much the same character. 
His brother John was associated with him for a while, but he 
sold bug-fjies after the firm was dissolved, and is now dead. 

J. y. McFall, long and favorably known as a dry-goods 
merchant, was Clerk at the Court of the time of his death 
and had retired from all other business. He at one time was 
associated with Kobert B. Holman (now dead, January, 1893,) 
and with Tench C. Pool, and then also with D. S Satter- 
white. And J. D. Cash, for some years, I know not how 
many, was an active, energetic and successful merchant. I 
have heard it said of him that he was one of the most pub- 
lic spiiited men that Newberry ever had, and that he helped 
very greatly in re-establishing Newberry College here. He 
married Miss Langford, daughter of Stanmore B. Langford of 
this town — died leaving a wife and two children. He too was 
a newcomer, and the only persons now bearing the name of 
Cash in the county are his two children. His widow married 
again, Mr. Burr F. Goggans, who has also done business here. 
A. C. Jones, who came from the County of Laurens, and mar- 
ried the eldest daughter of my old friend, Thos. F. Greneker, 
also did quite a large dry goods business here for some years, 
the firm being Jones & Satterwhite. He is now traveling sales- 
man for a wholesale house and is quite an active and ener- 
getic business man. Jas. F. Todd, another Laurens man, has 
conducted the grocery business here at different times, and his 
brother Proctor is now in that line, and Jas. F. the Southern 
Express Company's agent. 

I must not neglect to mention the old and well known firm 
of Carwile & McCaughrin. These two, John B. Carwile and 
Robert L. McCaughrin, left the mercantile business long ago 
and went into the Bank, where Mr. McCaughrin still is — he is 
also the President. But Mr. Carwile, on account of ill health 
resigned his position in that institution and now devotes him- 
self to letters, and the writing of personal reminiscences, and 
the recording of recollections of persons and places, and the 
many scenes and incidents that he has witnessed during his 
life. Long before these pages are printed and published I 
have no doubt that the people of this county and elsewhere 



788 ANNALS OF NEVrBERRY. 

will have read with much pleasure his delightful Recollections. 

Nor must I pass by without mention the names of Marquis 
J. Jenkins and Jenkins & Riser, who were in business here 
long- ago. Jenkins is in Orangeburg — I believe he was a 
native of Newberry, but Orangeburg having greater attractions 
he left us. A daughter of his, Mrs. Cuttino, who is a widow, 
was on a visit here during the summer of 1889. She is now 
dead— died in 3890. 

Another institution of long standing occurs to me now and 
must not be passed by unmentioned. And that is the Balti- 
more Corner, kept going for so many years for the dispensing 
of candies and confectioneries by Andrew Wicker. I believe 
that A. M. Wicker was one of the gentlest and most guileless 
souls that I ever knew. He was entirely transparent, as 
simple as a child, and the evil in him, if any, was as plainly 
perceptible as the good. He once dispensed the ardent as a 
clerk for old Gilbal, who was a character in his day, but I 
did not know him ; afterwards he sold liquor on his own 
account, and it has been told of him that soon after his con- 
version he was strongly moved to empty the whole of his 
stock into the streets, considering the traffic in liquor as in- 
consistent with the religious life, but was persuaded by friends 
to sell his stock and business to another not so scrupulous, 
which he did. He remained the balance of his life, which 
lasted a good many years, a consistent and zealous member 
of the Methodist Church. Andrew Whicker died as he had 
lived — trusting The last words that he was ever heard to 
murmur as he passed away, were these : "Love is the ful- 
filling of the law." 

Who does not remember Dr. T. Gouin, who was a French- 
man, and kept the "French store," — confectioneries and many 
other delicacies. His store was always as neat as a well-kept 
parlor. His wife sleeps in Rosemont Cemetery, and he went 
back to France many years ago. 

M. Barre & Son, R. Moorman & Co., Houseal & Jones 
(John I. and Dr. E. C), Wilson & Wicker, Chapman & Craw- 
ford (Junius E. and Jas. M.), B. J. and Alex. Singleton, 
Fellers & Gallman (J. B. and J. J.), Girardeau & Kettleband 
were all in active business during the years succeeding the 
war. Junius E. Chapman was indeed a good man and true. 



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(89 



He removed to Florida in 1884, and died several years ago. 
L. R. Marshall, once here in business, now lives in Columbia. 

The scenes continue shifting and the changes keep going on. 
I cannot fix them. Even while I write and since I began 
writing of the changing scenes, many deaths have occurred; 
many partnerships have been dissolved and many new ones 
have been formed. They change almost as fast as the shadows 
in a dream, and dreamlike they pass before the eyes of the 
scribe who has lived to see many of them come and go. S. P 
Boozer became Boozer & Goggans; . and now S. P. Boozer, who 
has been a merchant at Newberry for many years, is no longer 
one, but an insurance agent, which he had been some time 
before. His successors are Goggans & Fant — John C. Gog- 
gans, who has been in Newberry only a few years; ^Ym. A. 
Fant, son of O. H. P. Fant and a member of O. H. P. Fant 
& Son, which firm is non est. 

Col. J. R. Leavell's marble works were in existence before 
the war, and are now conducted at the same place by his son 
R. Y. Leavell and Leland M. Speers, who also conduct the 
furniture and undertaking business. Mr. Speers was in busi- 
ness alone for a few years. C. M. Harris was a splendid cabi- 
net maker in years gone by. He was also an undertaker, and 
has himself been borne to his last rest. Robert T. Caldwell 
is the successor of R. C. Chapman as an undertaker. 

Today while I write, the old Chapman workshop is being 
torn to pieces to make room for a dwelling house for his son- 
in-law, Thos. Cook, and daughter, who have sold the house 
built by Richard Chapman, and in which he lived and died. 
The town eastward towards the fair grounds of since the war 
is new and splendid, and growing newer and splendidior every 
day of its life. The fact is, in that direction it is beginning 
to put on a'rs, and the buildings threaten to grow more and 
more elegant all the time. Aveleigh Chvirch of the old primi- 
tive times, when it was out in the woods as it Avere, would 
not know the Aveleigh Church of today with its stained glass 
windows, its fine organ, and groined arches and gothic roof. 
And at College Place the professors' houses, built by the con- 
tributions of the Lutherans of the State and Savannah, add 
to the beauty of that classic eminence. 

But to come back to business changes — there have been 



790 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

some small failures, not many. The changes have mostly been 
made, not from outside pressure, but for the convenience of 
the parties in business. . 

The contractors and builders of Newberry at this time are 
W. T. Davis & Co. and the Shoskley Bros. In former years, 
from 1850 to 1880, W. A. Cline was a fino builder. The old 
Newberry College was built by him and the woodwork of the 
one now in use. J. L. Aull & Son were builders here for a 
time. Amongst the contractors of the past must be mentioned 
Thos. W. Blease and his brother J. Hart. Blease. Matthias 
Miller was also a contractor hero. 

Many years before the war a shoe store was kept here by 
Goveneur Thompson, and in 1858-60 by Metts & Land. The 
shoe house of I. M. Suber & Co., after the war, was suc- 
succeeded by Abrams, Gritiin, (B. F.) & Hargrove. McDutiie 
Metts was the leading salesman for both of these firms. He was 
in the business longer than any man in Newberry, and was a 
travelling salesman for a wholesale house at the time of his 
death in 1888. After the war for some years, Robt. F. Phifer, 
a brother to D. R., did business in that line. He sold out and 
returned to North Carolina. W. H. Dickert & Son manufactured 
shoes and had a shoe store for av/hile, but they closed out the 
business and have moved away. There is now no shoe store 
in town, though shoemaking and repairing is carried on by 
Wm. H. Blats, who succeeded Peter Rodelsperger and J. D. 
Hornsby, who for many years carried on a fine and successful 
shoemaking business. 

Some of the diy goods merchants before the war were R. H. 
Marshall, W. W. Houseal, W. M. Ilatton, W. D. Goggans. 
Smith, Coppock & Boozer. E. S. Coppock began the clothing 
business in 1858, and Geo. D. Smith kept on in dry goods. 
W. H. Hunt conducted an extensive grocery business at dif 
ferent times with his brothers J. H. and I. F. Hunt, styled 
Hunt & Bro. ; so did Walker & Glenn, also Jas. Y. Harris and 
R. C. Wright; and Johnson & Hill; Stiles Hurd in carriages 
and buggies; B. M. Blease in saddles and harness; Geo. Larsen 
in confectionery; A. M. Riser in dry goods; also A. Harris, who 
left here after the w^ar; Morgan & Floyd in general stock. 

Weight, (R. H.) Coppock (E. S) & Co. (Henry Whitmire) were 
clothiers just after the war; then for fifteen years the firm was 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKKT. 



791 



Wright & Coppock, when it changed to Wright & J. W. Cop- 
pock, which was succeeded by Blalock & Green (L. W. C- 
and Jordan R.); then Mr. Blalock alone; and he has now been 
succeeded by Brown & Smith (S. E. and Robt. G.) E. A. 
Scott was in the clothing business up to about 1883. Cloud & 
Smith, also clothiers for a number of years, have been suc- 
ceeded by Smith (R. D.) & Wearn (R. H.). Minter & Jamie- 
son, merchants and clothiers, have been suceeded by O. M. 
Jamieson, at whose place of business, the old Stewart corner, 
once flourished the firm of P. W. & R. S. Chick, a name now 
extinct. In rear of the old Stewart building the postoffico was 
located for forty years, where Solomon P. Kinard, 'the post- 
master, collected the penny contributions along in 1840-50 for 
the monument to the "Father of his Country" at Washington. 

Kingsmore & Wearn (E. H. and Richard) were photographers 
for a good many years. Kingsmore was a good portrait painter 
besides. I have seen portraits painted by him that were very 
good. W. C. Wiseman was a good photographer. Andrew 
Chapman worked a while in that line and did very good work. 
William H. Clark, now in Missouri, was succeeded by J. Z. 
Salter, who does excellent work. 

William T. Wright was long and favorably known as a dealer 
in stoves and tinware and also as a tinner. He was a devoted 
member of the Baptist Church, and I am very sure that that 
church here never had a more strict and conscientious member, 
nor a warmer friend to the temperance cause. At the time 
of his death he was a little over fifty years of age. His wife, 
who was about five years younger than himself, was not quite 
forty-nine at the time of her death. She was Mary Blease. 
They sleep together in Rosemont Cemetery, and resting near 
them in the same enclosure, lie six children, ranging in age 
from one month to twenty-fours years. Two still survive. 

Henry H. Blease was once in the stove and tinware busi- 
ness with Mr. Wright as Blease & Wright. He was also in the 
grocery business before and the tinware since that time. The 
tinware and stove business is now conducted by M. J. Scott 
and J. W. White. A. J. Sproles, now of Greenwood, was in 
this line here several years. 

There is only one business house in which no change has 
taken place in twenty-five years — that of W. T. Tarrant. In 



792 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



T866-G7, the firm was Young & Tarrant, who succeeded Geo. D. 
Smith, agent for Wm. Young, in the dry goods business. R. C. 
Shiver & Co., and Thos. F. Harmon once conducted the dry goods 
business extensively in the building now occupied by Mr. Tar- 
rant. "M. Foot, established 1857," was the sign of an extensive 
business for nearly thirty years. The firm was afterwards M. 
Foot, Jr., & Co. Mr. Foot and his entire family moved to 
Atlanta in 1880. At his old stand are now Evaos & Reeder, 
(Everett M. and Jno. W.) and recently Jas. A. Mimnaugh. O. 
Klettner is in the same neighborhood. He deals in dry goods 
and gToceries, also, as I have been told, in the ardent. He is 
active an'd energetic. What effect the Dispensary law may have 
upon his business, and upon A. M. Bowers & Co. (J. H. Ruff), 
D. M. Ward & Co. (Geo. W. Pearson), E. Y. Morris, Thos. Q. 
Boozer and the others, I cannot tell, and therefore cannot note 
at present. 

The saddle and harness business was carried on after the 
war by John Boyle; afterwards more extensively by Webb, 
Jones & Parker, who added to it carriages and buggies, the 
same kind of business that F, A. Schumpert & Co. now con- 
duct. Jno. W. Taylor & Co. are now the carnage makers of 
Newberry. This business was followed just after the war by 
C. M. Jones, whose son S. B. Jones is in the confectionery 
business; another son, Ira B. Jones, is a lawyer in Lancaster, 
and now for his second term Speaker of the House of Repre- 
sentatives; another son, William, lives also in Lancaster. His 
oldest son is the dentist, Dr. E. C. Jones. Di*. Theodore John- 
stone and Dr. Jno. R. Thompson are also dentists in Newberry. 
Dr. W. B. McKellar, successful and generous, had a large 
practice in dentistry. Dr. R. S. Whaley was another good 
dentist. Both have passed from life's changing scenes. 

I find that I have not yet mentioned among the business men 
of the olden time John and Summerfield Montgomery. John 
is here still and in business — jeweler and watchmaker. Sum- 
merfield died long ago — left a widow and daughter and son. 
All have gone West. They had a brother, Charles W. Mont- 
gomery, who was a member of the Legislature after the war. 
I once visited that august body while he was a member, and 
F. J. Moses was in his glory as presiding officer — many mem- 
bers were colored people. 



ANNALS or NEWBERRY. 793' 

C. B. Buist, a new name for Newberry, was once in business 
here and was at the time of his death Coroner. His name 
appears among those of the soldiers of the Confederacy. An- 
other new name must be added, Eduard Scholtz. He is a 
native of Germany — was watchmaker and jeweler here for- 
several years, but having married North returned there in 
1889, and is now living in Washington. 

Leavell & Spearman were in the mercantile business for a 
long time where Jos. Mann now keeps store. Next door was 
the lirm of Brown, Wilson & Co., John C. Wilson being now 
in the fertilizer business. J. J. Lane, a newcomer, is also in 
this business. Andrew J. McCaughrin conducted a large fer- 
tilizer business for a number of years. He has now retired 
and delights in the cultivation of rose^, of which he has a fine 
collection. Eddy Bros., R. C. Williams, John L. Ramage, Paul 
Johnstone, J. W. Kibler & Co., Summer Bros., are all new 
men in business and must be noted in the changes. F. B.. 
Mcintosh has just left the Baltimore corner and is succeeded 
by T. J. Hayes. Wm. A. Kinard also conducted business at 
that familiar place. The racket store, now Gary & Cook (I. N. 
and Thos.), is quiet and prosperous. J. D. Davenport, a new- 
comer in the dry goods business, has just formed a life-long 
partnership with one of Newberry's loveliest daughters. The 
firm of Wooten & McWhirter is, comparatively speaking, a new 
one. C. L. Havird is in the mercantile business in the street 
with those just named. J. O. Havird was a merchant there, 
but is now dead. The death of Mrs. C. Mower made a change- 
there necessary and the house is now known as the C. & G. S. 
Mower Company. The business itself is unchanged. But I 
cannot keep up with the changes. Were I to note down to- 
day the name of every business house in Newberry, to-morrow- 
would ^nd a change. 

" Life's but a dream at best; 

A strange, bewildering scene, 
In magic colors drest;— 

What is and what hath been, 
All mingled like a gorgeous show 

That flashes, moves and passes, but don't go." 

Joseph Brown, who is now, and for some years has been, 
doing business as a merchant at Newberry, was a good soldier 
of the Confederacy and a member of the 10th South Carolina 
Regiment. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Missonary 



79-4 AXXALS OF XEWBERKY. 

Ridge, near Chattanooga, Tcnn., ia the fall of 1S63, and was 
ia prison at Rock Island, Illinois, for six months and probably 
a longer time. He suffered much in prison as the wiater was 
very cold and the allowance of food was only half of full 
ration, in retaliation, as the Federal authorities said, for the 
cruel treatment of the prisoners at Andersonville. 

From my own personal knowledge and observation I know 
nothing of the treatment the Federal prisoners received at 
Andersonville. But it is matter of history that the United 
States government refused to make exchange of prisoners. 
"Why was this? If they knew that their soldiers were suffer- 
ing unnecessary hardships and cruelties at Andersonville, or 
elsewhere, were they not, by refusing exchanges, making them- 
selves parties to the crime? They ought in mercy, if not in 
justice to their soldiers, to have relieved them of all useless 
suffering. They well knew that the care of many thousand 
prisoners was a great burden to the Confederacy in every way, 
and that they must suffer even when the Confederate author- 
ities did their best to prevent it. So knowing, they were 
criminal, and deeply criminal, in not extending relief to their 
men whenever they could. They did it to throw odium upon 
the government of the Confederate States, callous to the suf- 
fering caused, or that might be caused, by their own delib- 
erate cruelty. When on my way home in 1S04 from Forsyth, 
Georgia, at which place and at Atlanta previously, I had been 
lying in hospital for ten weeks, I stopped at Macon very 
nearly twenty-four hours, trains not making proper connec- 
tion, and while there I heard from rumor that the prisoners 
were dying rapidly at Andersonville; but I heard nothing said 
of any specially cruel treatment they were receiving. But, 
admitting that they were cruelly treated, Major Wurz, the 
commandant, was hung for it afterwards, being made to suffer 
for his own sins, and bearing as a scapegoat the sins of the 
Confederacy and of the United States. Well, I hope they got 
absolution. It was the duty of the Federal authorities to give 
every possible relief to their suffering soldiers and they refused 
to do it when it was in their power. They deliberately made 
themselves parties to a great crime. 

Of the crviel treatment of Confederate prisoners in Federal 
prisons, in some of them at least, all doubt must vanish when 



ANNALS OF NEWBERKY. 795 

we read a letter written in July, 1891, for the Prosperity Press 
and Reporter, by Kev. J. B. Traywick, who had the misfortune 
to be a Confederate prisoner confined for some time 'n the 
Federal prison at Point Lookout, Maryland. If Federal 
prisoners fared worse and suffered more at Andersonville or 
anywhere else in the South, their condition must have been 
awful indeed. Bat that is simply impossible. Hell, itself, is 
no worse than Point Lookout was; but that is believed to be 
eternal and Point Lookout has ceased. ' 

While at Macon I saw Stoneman and his men, who had 
just been made prisoners a short time previous, pass through 
the streets on their way to the depot to take the cars for 
Charleston, at which place they were to be imprisoned. Just 
before their capture they had cut the railroad and burned the 
bridge near Macon, hoping to cut off our communications. It 
was a very^ daring enterprise, a little too daring, and not quite 
as successful as they had anticipated, but really a serious 
dardage to the railrond. Just after their raid and capture, 
my friend Smith Livingston, who was then in hospital at 
Forsyth, having been shot through the thigh in one of the 
battles near Atlanta, was furloughed for home for sixty days. 
I begged him not to go so soon, telling him that he would 
have to walk on crutches for about half a mile, and that in 
his condition it would kill him. '"Well," said he, "I'll risk it 
anyhow, if it docs kill me. I must go home." I was very 
uneasy about him, but learned nothing until I got home my- 
self in August, when I inquired and was told that he did not 
quite die but came \er\ near it. 

I have mentioned the name of A. P. Pifer more than once, 
but have I spoken of him as a soldier? A native of Virginia, 
at the outbreak of the war he was teacher or professor in 
Newbery^ College. After Virginia seceded he returned to that 
State, entered the service of the Confederacy and was ap- 
pointed by Gen. Lee commander of his body guard with the 
rank of Captain, which he was holding at the close of the 
war. After the war he returned to Newberry, having been 
elected Professor in the College. He remained with the Col- 
lege some time and after its removal to Walhalla he taught 
a boys' school for awhile — was elected by the Board of Trus- 
tees Principal of the Newberry Female Academy, which insti- 



796 ANXALS OF NEWBERRY. 

tutiou be conducted with great success until 1SS8, when he 
resigned. 

Mr. A. Singleton, who is now living at Newberry, and his 
brother B. J. Singleton, Avho died here some years ago, were 
both soldiers in the armies of the Confederacy, and did their 
duty as such. 

The town of Newberry itself is almost entirely new. All 
the central, business part, has been burnt and reburnt and 
rebuilt since the war. Oat from the centre there are still 
some few houses as landmarks and relics of the olden time. 
Part of the hoxise now occupied by J. D Hornsby is quite old, 
but he has added to it and so transmogrified its outward 
appearance that it does not look like the same house. The 
Pratt house and the Graham house are both quite old, and 
there are a few others. But not many of the houses first 
built are standing now. Like their builders and the gay 
young people, who once filled them with mirth and laughter, 
they have passed away. 

Passing out into the country towards Saluda we find that 
the Worthingtons, Jenkins and others, who once lived and 
flourished on Bush River are all gone. No one bearing those 
names now live in that section of the county. But I have 
already given a list of names no longer borne by any now 
living here. 

I do not think the white population of the county is as 
great as it was fifty years ago ; the increase not having kept 
pace with the loss by death and emigration. But indeed, I 
have no means just now of knowing, as I have not the statis- 
tics before me. The toirn has greatly increased in population, 
but the country around has not; as the tendency has been to 
move to the town and leave the cultivation of the soil to the 
colored people, some few of whom have shown themselves to 
be good managers and successful farmers. I^ewis Duckett is a 
good example of what an industrious, intelligent colored man 
can do. And he, as I have been told, is not alone as a suc- 
cessful farmer. 

In the list of family names that have disappeared from the 
county I find that I did not mention that of Hilburn. There 
may be others .also. Hilburn's Mills, lying next below Men- 
denhall's on Bush River, was once a valuable property as a 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 797 

flouring and grist mill. The mills are no longer in existence, 
but the lands that oncp belonged to the Hilbrun estate are 
still of considerable value. They are now the property of 
Mr. F. Werber's estate, who married the daughter of Dr. 
John E. Bobo, who was the owner of the land at the time of 
his death, he having married the widow Hilburn. There is 
neither a Hilburn nor a Bobo in the county. Werber, a new 
name, takes the place of both. Mr. F. Werber was a native 
of North Germany and was a most excellent man. He died 
in February, 1801. His widow still lives here. His two sons, 
F, and G. E. Werber, are in Washington. It would be well 
for the county if there were more like him. 

My friend, Dr. G. W. Glenn, died recently, and ho was a 
'good man ! What man, young or old, now lives in the county 
to represent that family name? He left daughters, but no 
son. We have James F. Glenn, but I suppose the families 
are entirely distinct. But is he not also nearly entirely alone? 

Among the new names, that is, names not of the original 
settlers though they have been in the county a long time, we 
have the names of Cline, Blease, Bangle and Mazyck. Cline 
came from North Carolina near the town of Lincolnton. 
Wallace A. Cline was a prosperous, energetic, good man ; one 
of the kind that gives solid prosperity to any country in 
which his citizen.ship may be. The death of such men is 
always a real loss, not only to their families, but to the State. 
Bangle's name is extinct as he left no legitimate children. My 
old friend Mathias Miller came also from the neighborhood of 
Lincolnton — has no descendants here — left sons, but they are 
dead. His daughter, Mrs. Boag, is a clerk in the Treasury 
Department at Washington. N. B. Mazyck came here from 
Charle.ston, brought his family here during the war — he, him- 
self, was in the Confederate service, doing his duty as a 
soldier should. At the close of the war he remained and was 
railroad agent at the Newberry depot for many years. E. S. 
Keitt, who also gives a new name lo the county, came from 
Orangeburg, and succeeds to the Wadlingtons and Bausketts, 
whose names, once so familinr, are no longer heard. Osborne 
Wells came from near Lincolnton, N. C, married here and 
has taken, I hope, firm root in Newberry soil. Ho has made 
several valuable inventions which have been patented. Z. L. 



798 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

White is also from North Carolina, the man who prides him- 
self, and it is an honest pride, upon having grown and fattened 
and slaughtered the largest hog ever raised in the County of 
Newberry. Its weight was over eight hundred pounds. Capt. 
Speck, also from North Carolina, was for a while an active busi- 
ness man here — a watchmaker and jeweller. He remained just 
long enough to appropriate to himself one of Newberry's lovely 
daughters when he returned carrying her with him. In 1889 
he returned to Newberry and was in business until the first 
of January, 1893, when he removed to Florida. 

I have no doubt that there are other new names, new- 
comers, both in town and county, unknown to me. They 
must not think that I have left them out purposel}^ I write 
from my recollection of persons and changes without reference 
to the Treasurer's or Auditor's books. 

And now in closing these labors and reviewing them, this 
January 28, 1S93, I find that much more might be added 
about persons of whom nothing has been said. Many events 
have transpired in the county unknown to me, which, if prop- 
erly told, would be of interest to the reader and carry a 
healthful moral. Many persons, both men and women, have 
lived noble lives and died heroic deaths, not known to me, 
whose names cannot be recorded here, but are recorded in a book 
from which they can never be erased, the Book of God. So 
I must beg my readers, when they find, if they should so find, 
that something has not been that should have been written, 
to cover the omission with the mantle of charity and to believe 
that th'i writer has done what he could. Some names dear to 
me have been omitted, or only casually mentioned, and the 
reader must know from this fact that the pen that traced 
these words has been absolutely impartial. 

Hereafter another volume of Annals must be written and so 
the record must be kept up, and that volume must be made 
to supply the defects of this. 

Hail and Farewell All! 



APPENDIX. 



THE WAR WITH THE SEMINOLES, 1836. 

In the first part of this work, I believe that uo mention is made of the 
war with the Seminole Indians in Florida, nor of the actors in that war, 
except of Nicholas and John Summer, of Capt. Hargrove's Company. 
Heretofore some few of the actors have only been casually and incident- 
ally mxentioued in the Second Part. There having recently come into 
the hands of the writer the roll of a Mounted Company of Volunteers 
who went from Newberry County, and also a daily record of the move- 
ments of the company until their arrival at Tampa Baj^ from the time of 
their leaving home, kept by the Captain of the Companj', we have 
thought it well to make here a lecord of that roll, and also some extracts 
from the diary of the Captain, as a part of the Annals of Newberry. 

I find on the roll names of privates, 58; non-commissioned officers, 7; 
commissioned officers, 4. Total, 69. 

S. C. Hargrove, Captain; James T. Sims, ist Lieutenant; James V. 
Lyles, 2nd Lieutenant; Robert Dugan, Ensign; G. Ashford, vSergeaut; 
Nicholas Summer the first; H. T. Clark, Sergeant; E. F. Williams, Ser- 
geant; H. Martin, Corporal; J. K.Jenkins, Corporal; D. Lewis, Corporal; 
L. Suber, Corporal. 

Privates — ^J. Hunter, J. M. Henderson, T. J. Stewart, J. L. Keuner, 
James Caldwell, J. Summer, D. Simmons, H. Oxner, E. Prewit, R. Cotes. 
No. 2— D. Jinkins, H. Roberts, M. McClure, E. Whitmire, A. Aughtry, 
W. McCracking, J. Boyd, S. Stark, J. F. Williams, J. McMorris. No. 3— 
L. Lane, M. Ruff, J. Miller, G. Harris, R. Dawkins, J. Floyd, W. Adams, 
B. Felkmau, M. Goree, I. Davidson. No. 4 — M. Chambers, I. Prewit, 
O. Simmons; — Walker, O. Towles, J. Motes, N. Johnson, J. Baker, 
T. Livingston, G. Smith, T. D. Chambers, H. Suber, P. Suber, — Strib- 
bling, S. Vessels, E. Harris, J. W. Bird, J. O. Bedsil, W, H. Allen, 
W. Smith, L. E. Horton, P. Philips, L. Culbreath, Harvey Suber, B. Dur- 
rett, T. Morris, D. Alewine, A. M. Nembil. 

The Captain begins his diary by saying: "Received orders from Col. 
Neal on Frida}^, 5th February, 1836, to have my company warned to meet 
atTeague's Old Field on Monday, the 8th, stand a draw to go against the 
Seminole Indians in Florida. Met agreeable to orders, but did not stand 
a draw; patriotism was too high. They volunteered rapidly and made up 
a company of seventy-four men, and then they had the right to elect their 

icers and I was chosen Captain of the respectable company." 

The roll I have copied gives only 69 names, rank and file, add Nicholas 
Summer makes 70, what became of the other four does not appear. 
Orders were now received from Gen. Caldwell to rendezvous at Newberry 
C H. on Wednesday, the loth. On the nth the horses of the company 
were appraised and the men dismissed until 2 o'clock, when they paraded 
and made ready for the march. While on the old field Brig. -Gen. Bull 
arrived and gave orders for the company to march to Purysburg without 
baggage wagon. Marched to J. Paysinger's and camped. The night was 
cloudy with some rain and there was considerable confusion in camp 



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about the baggage wagon, and the Captain says: "I hired P. P. Gilder's 
wagon to haul baggage for my company at my risk." 

Before proceeding with the Captain's journal I must revert to the roll of 
the company. In the memorandum book which I have, there are three 
rolls, and I copied that in which I found most names recorded, thinking 
that it would have all to be found in the others, but it does not. The 
one I copied gives George Ashford as Orderly or ist Sergeant, but in the 
'first roll the name N. Summer appears as ist Sergeant. I suppose 
Geo. Ashford must have received the appointment in Florida after Ser- 
geant Summer received his fatal wound. 

To proceed — On Friday, 12th, they crossed Saluda at Lee's Ferry, the 
day's march being fifteen miles — the night cloudy and looked like rain. 
On Saturday, 13th, they started at 8 o'clock and marched for the Edisto. 
Had some trouble in getting corn and fodder from Mr. Phelps, but threat- 
ened if he did not let us have it that I would take the boys and have it 
any how, and he fetched them. Passed through Aiken on Saturdav, 14th 
— stopped about thirty minutes while the steam cars were run up the hill, 
and when we mounted we were saluted with three rounds of six pounders 
and were highly complimented as the finest troop they ever saw. After 
various ups and downs and inconveniences, but nothing very serious, 
they find themselves on the evening of the 20th of February, the tenth 
day after leaving home, at the cit}' of Savannah. Here he says the Quar- 
termaster did not know where to station us for the night, but at length 
put us in the old Barrack, the water bad and no wood at all, and rations 
late coming out — much dissatisfaction among the men— many of them 
went to town for supper. I had to curse the Quartermaster that night 
before we could get ration or wood. February 21st. — Sold Mr. P. P. Gil- 
der's wagon and team to the Quatermaster for the use of the Government 
*to haul our baggage on, as it was all the chance, for|;6oo. Here the other 
battalion of mounted men came up and we marched out about two miles 
and camped. Crossed the Ogechee River late in the afternoon of P^ebru- 
ary 22nd — went about three miles and camped — much complaint about 
the corn being rotten. Wm. Walker's mare was snagged in the side and 
died this morning. 

February 2jd. — Went on by Riceborough to Jonesville where the}' 
stayed all night. It rained all night, but got houses to stay in. The men 
much displeased with the Quartermater and spoke harsh to him and 
about him. Poor fellow ! I suspect he must have had a hard time of it 
with the cussing and abuse he got from the Captain and the men. Feb- 
ruary 2^tli. — Started for Barrinton — road nothing but a cow path — went 
four or five miles and was compelled to retreat, for perhaps it was the 
worst road that was ever seen. Returned aud took the road to Darien. 
Arrived at Darien next afternoon at 7 o'clock^part went across the 
Altamaha — part camped out. On the 26th, paraded early and went to 
the boat landing, but stayed all day waiting for the boat, which did not 

■ come — it set in to raining, the evening was cold and we were invited to 

■ take shelter in the city hall. Being interrupted by a drunken soldier I 
ordered him to be taken to jail and it was done. We went to the Matrr" 
House for supper, say eight or ten of us — had to wait some time for ■ 
and when we got to eating we could eat faster than they could cook un'. ■ : 
we cleaned the table and all they could fetch us. The price was fif' > 
cents for the cold scraps. On the 27th, they went up the Altamaha ar' 
landed about 12 o'clock — found part of Capt. Matthews' Company — got 
snack for breakfast aud set out on their unknown march without an; 
thing for selves or horses. Went a few miles and came up with Caj: ' 
Matthews' Company with provisions for themselves and horses — th' .' 
would not divide with us — went on about a mile and fouud a good o<i 
Virginian named Lyles, who gave them plenty for themselves and horse-. •* . 
On the 29th, they were at Jeffersonville where they found Col. Butl '^ «\ 
and the rest of the troops that were ahead of us. Struck camp. Son "^ N 



APPENDIX. 801 

boys went to town, found lying in the street an old cannon — they got 
some powder and charged the piece quite heavy — took an old empty 
hogshead and laid before it and frred off the piece into the hogshead, 
which bursted all to pieces and wounded one of the boys on the foot. 
When they returned to camp Col. Lioodwyn sent out for them to be sent 
for and to be kept in camp. And the same set were sent back for them- 
selves, but returned without a prisoner as they were the offenders them- 
selves. 

Marc/i ist, /Sj6. — Started about lo o'clock — went through a cold rain 
to a station on the St. Mary's River — ordered to clean arms and put them 
in order for fighting, for we begin to get near the hostile land. Camped 
and drew rations for selves and horses to last to Jacksonville. The bread 
we drew was made of rye meal, and made in the year 1825, or stamped 
so, and was full of worms, and was thrown out by the boys. I do not 
think the boys were to be blamed for throwing it awa}', for bread eleven 
years old, made of rye meal and full of worms must have been rather 
so-so. So they went on through mud, rain and swamps, crossing rivers, 
but in spite of mud. accidents and bad bread they arrived at vSt. Augustine 
about 3 o'clock of the afternoon of March Sth — marched through the town 
and about two miles passed by a camp of South Carolina Militia Volun- 
teers, and formed our camp in the worst thicket that ever v»-as seen — had 
to clean a place to hitch our horses and to lay on ourselves. On the nth, 
got permission to go to see the old fort at St. Augustine. Beautiful 
scenery— fort very strong and built with shell, &c. Saturday, March 
12th. — Dress parade — many citizens out to see us on that occasion. Sun- 
day, 13th. — No regard paid to the Sabbath. Monday, ij.th. — Left camp 
near St. Augustine and on Tuesday nie;ht camped at Col. Plernaudes' 
plantation, which had been destroyed by Indians and all waste and 
destruction. I'ound Capt. Denny, of lulgefield, with his compau}^ there. 
Wednesday, the /6th.— Vassed three sugar mills that were burnt down 
and destroyed — last two miles nothing but mud and water — wagons 
mired down, men had to go in up to the waist to get them along— pitched 
tent at 12 o'clock at night — men so tired and sleepy they went to bed 
without supper. Thursday, i/th. —Started for Volusia, marched through 
nmd and water from ankle to waist deep the most of the day, but late in 
the day came to a beautiful pine barren where we camped for the night. 
Here we came up with Col. Huiet with his command, who camped with 
us for the night. Reached Fort Volusia at 10 o'clock at night of the i8th, 
tired almost to death; appointed officer of the day and had command of 
the guard of mounted men, and slept none that night. Late in the eve- 
ning of Sunday, March 20, one man came into camp and said he had seen 
an Indian. A detail of men was ordered out to see if his statement was 
true. When they returned they brought an opossum with them, but no 
Indian. Ordered to prepare for a scout on the next day; all ready. 

Monday, i'/.y/'.— Started for Orange Grove by way of Spring Garden; 
about i5 o'clock in the day had a drive for Indians; Col. Brisbane's Bat- 
talion drove while the mounted men stood, but saw no Indians. We then 
passed through Col. Read's plantation and saw some of the finest land I ever 
saw. It seems that they got lost on the way to Orange Grove, the guides 
not knowing the way perfectly, and on Wednesday, March 23d, the men 
became so much displeased that they threatened 'to shoot the guides if 
they did not find the way; they became very shy; all at once, however, 
after passing through a hammock, they came in sight of Orange Grove; 
went into the houses and found plenty to eat for selves and horses, and 
Col. Butler gave orders to eat as much as they could and to feed the horses 
as much as they could eat; but they had not pots, pans nor kettles to cook 
in; soon got old hoes, pieces of saw's, etc., and went to cooking and eating 
with all their might, and what was better than all, the Captain says, we 
found some whiskey. i1/rt;r/?, .=>////.— Stayed [at Orange Grove all day, 
cooking and preparing tomarch back again. 

3 D 



802 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

Friday, 25th. — Weut back to the old camp at Spring Gardeu; R. Dugau 
aud W. Allen both sick with the measles; saw some signs of Indians; 
rained all night and all got wet to the skin. 

Saturday, IMarck 26th. — Started in the rain; weut on our way and met 
.some of our hunting forces; some had been sent out the day before look- 
ing for us, and fell in with some Indians and had a scrimmage in which 
one of our men was wounded, but would have succeeded in killing all the 
Indians if Lieutenant Arnold, who was in command, had not called off 
the men and commanded them to return to the army. About 12 o'clock 
we got to Volusia, all wet and cold, where we found Colonel Goodwyu 
and all the mounted regiment, and all the rest of the left wing of the 
army. Heard of a battle that had taken place between our men and the 
Indians on the other side of the River vSt. Johns, when they commenced 
crossing, in which three of our men of Capt. Thrip's and Capt. Ashley's 
companies were killed and several wounded. Found one dead Indian 
that was said to be a chief by the name of Ocliey Billy; suppose they killed 
several others from the signs. Army under orders to march, but we knew 
not where, as Gen. Eustus did not let that be known. Left seventeen of 
our men at the fort sick. 

Forty-sixth day, Sunday, March 2j. — Made read}' for the march. 
Drawed four days' rations for ourselves and horses, aud had to take that 
on horseback; did not get across the river until late that evening; 
marched about two miles and camped on bad ground; had to build a 
brush heap to lie on that night to keep out of the water. On Wednes- 
day, the 30th, came to Oclawahha River about 12 o'clock; it was swim- 
ming. The river runs out of a lake of its own name, which was beautiful. 
Built a bridge for footmen and baggage wagons. Col. Butler's Battalion 
of mounted men were detached to scour the country for Indians and 
cattle; found thirteen head of cattle and came up with some Indians run- 
ning to make their escape — Gen. Shelton with a party of men put after 
them and came within shooting distance, and Shelton fired on him with 
his double-barrel shotgun and the Indian fell to his knees. Shelton 
rushed up to him and snapped a pistol at his breast, and the Indian bal- 
anced his gun acrj ss his arm and shot Shelton in the hip, and the Indian 
was then shot down by a Mr. Gibson of Capt. Smith's Company of 
mounted men. 

Thursday, March j/st. — Started with Col. Butler's Battalion in front; 
saw signs of Indians; found some ponies; front guard saw an Indian run 
into a hammock. Lieut. McVigh with a part)- of men were sent by Col. 
Goodwyu to see where he went; as soon as they got near enough they 
were fired on by the Indians; fire kept up for .some time. Col. Butler's 
Command rushed in and kept up a brisk fire on them for a minute or 
two and then dismounted, rushed up on foot but could not get at them. 
By this time the whole command was up. Col. Brisbane's;Battalion of 
footmen was commanded to follow them. They did .so for about a mile 
and fired two rounds after them withoi:t effect. If there were any In- 
dians killed we did not know it. There were five of the whites wounded 
— among the rest was N. Summer, my Orderly Sergeant; got his thigh 
broke. There was shot at Col. Butler about twelve or fifteen steps, but 
niissed him and hit Jackson in the thigh; the Indian hit his breast and 
yelled. When the troops all got back to camp they took up the line of 
march again and camped about two miles from the battle ground. 

On Friday, the ist of April, the fifty-finst day, started at 5 o'clock; 
came to an Indian town, fired it and caught some ponies and about one 
hundred head of cattle; pursued on a few miles and camped for the 
night, fired two guns for a sign but got no answer; sent an express to 
Gen. Scott; killed some calves and had some fresh beef to eat. I com- 
manded the right wing guard that night and Col. Huiett was officer of 
the day; had the cowpen close to the guardhouse, the worst fuss with 
cattle I ever had in all mv life. 



ApMnDix. S03 



Fifty-second day, Saturday, 2nd April. — Stayed in camp until 10 
o'clock; fired two guns for a signal; but got no answer; marched one mile, 
halted and camped for the remainder of that day. One company was 
detailed to see if they could find the Tampa Bay road. They returned 
and said it was within two miles of us. The express that was sent off the 
evening before returned with the news from Fort Kane that Gen. Scott 
had left for the Withlacooche for some time, and had not been heard from. 
Now out of rations for our horses, and had not had any since we left Fort 
Volusia, but what we carried on our horses. Much dissatisfaction on 
account of it — the men murmuring. 

Fifty-tliird day, Sunday, 3d April. — Started at 6 o'clock; struck the 
Tampa Bay road; did not travel far before we came to the place of the 
Dade massacre. There were human bones lying about on the ground. Had 
to build a bridge over the Withlacooche. Tuesday, April §th — Started 
at half past four in the morning; came to Fort Alabama on the Hills- 
borough River. Some volunteers there from Alabama. They told us that 
the Indians had attacked them a few days before and they had a severe 
fight. They were of opinion that they had killed fifteen or twenty of the 
Indians. There was but one of the whites killed and one wounded. They 
supposed there were 150 or 200 Indians, from all appearances, — and 
some negroes were seen with them in the fight. Before we left that place 
there came a friendly Indian with an express from Gen. Scott to Gen. 
Fustis. We went on eight miles further and camped. Wednesday, 6th 
April. — All the mounted men were ordered to Tampa Bay. The footmen, 
sick and wounded were left there in camp under Gen. Bull. This is the 
first command he has had since the army has been together. The 
mounted men went on with their poor horses, for they had been six days 
without corn, or anything else but grass, and in looking over this you 
can see that there was not much chance for that. My company was 
ordered to the front guard. The order was to walk and lead. I pursued 
on. After awhile Gen. Eustis came along. Some of the men had 
mounted unbeknown to me, and were riding. He scolded and threat- 
ened to courtmartial them for it; and that displeased them very much 
with him. Col. Goodwyn came up after him, and he told them to mount 
and ride half the time. We reached Tampa Bay about 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon. Our horses had been starving so that they scarce would eat. 

Captain Hargrove's diar}^ thus abruptly ends with the arrival of his 
company at Tampa Bay. Elsewhere he gives a list of fifteen men who 
lost their horses in the United States service in Florida in 1836. 

There was another company, an infantry company from Newberry, 
but that roll the Compiler has never seen. I suppose it may be found in 
the records of the War Office at Washington. It is not in the archives of 
the State in Columbia. 

' SOI.DIERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. 

George A. Lewie, of Lexington County, at present a citizen of New- 
berry, was Major of the 2nd Regiment of State Troops; called into service 
in September, 1863, for six months. This regiment was commanded by 
Col. Wm. Fort and was stationed at Pocotaligo, vS. C. 

F. M. Lindsay, our present Coroner, was a soldier of the Confederacy, 
and was a member of Co. I, ist Regiment, from Charleston County, and 
lost an arm at the battle of Seven Pines. 

Thomas J. Rook, of Co. F, — Capt. Kinard's Company — 2otli Regiment, 
was captured at Strasburg, October 19th, 1864. When surrounded by the 
enemy and resistance was hopeless, he raised his hatchet (which he used 
for culinary purposes and carried in his belt) and told the enemy if they 
did not stand back, "I will split your head open with my axe." His 
captor, speaking of it soon afterwards, enjoyed the joke hugely, and 
pointing to him and remarking on his white head, pronounced him the 
bravest man he had ever seen. Carried to Point Lookout. 



804 



ANNALS OF NEWBEKEY. 



William H. Slcau was a member of Co. F, 20th Re<^uiient, Jno. M. 
Kinard, Captain; eutered the service iu the fall of 1861 and served 
through the war; wounded at the battle of Strasburg. 
27TH S. C. Infaxtry. 

I find the following volunteers from Newberrv in the 27th Regipient, 
S. C. Infantry: 

Co. B — ^John C. Hammett, age 30; killed at Secessionville. Andrew J. 
Sullivan, age 37. 

Co. F — W. W. Long, age 23. James Thomas, age 16; transferred. 

D. R. Thomas, age 17; transferred. 

Co. G — ^J. K. Blakeh-; captured at Petersburg, June 24, 1S64, and pris- 
oner of war. 

LAST SAD TRIBUTE TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHERN 
CONFEDERACY. 

Jefferson Davis died iu New Orleans on December 6th, iSSg, and 
memorial meetings were held throughout the South on Wednesday, the 
lith. The Newberry Observer of December 12th, 1S89, published the 
following account of the meeting iu Newberry : 

The people of Newberry-, as in every portion of the South, loved Jeff. Davis with c 
patriotic devotion. The announcement of his death, therefore, while not unexpected , 
caused a feeling of sadness iu all hearts. It was felt that .soniethiug should be done to 
testify the love and respect cherished for the dead chieftaiu; and accordingly a meeting 
was held on Monday to take the matter into consideration. Capt. R. H. Wright was 
elected Chairman and Dr. James Mclnto.sh, Secretary. The following Committee on 
Arrangements was appointed: J. B. Fellers, J. N. Slartin, Capt. J. W. Gary, D. B. 
Wheeler, W. T. Tarrant — and, on motion, the Chairman was added to the committee. 
The following were appointed a Committee on Resolutions: R. L. McCaughriu, J. B. 
Fellers and M. A. Carlisle. 

The Committee of Arrangements decided that the city bell, in the Opera House tower, 
should be tolled from 11.30 to 12 M. on Wednesday, and at that at 12 — the hour of Mr. 
Davis' funeral — the people of the city should as.semble iu the Opera House for exercises 
appropriate to the occasion. 

The hall of the Opera House was elaborately draped for the occasion, under the direc- 
tion of the following committee of ladies: Mrs. Fanuie N. Baxter, chairman; Mrs. N. B. 
Mazyck, Mrs. Jas. A. Burton, iMrs. O. iMcR. Holmes, Mrs. Y. J. Pope, Mrs. O. L. Schum- 
pert and Mrs. J. N. Martin. 

The big bell in the tower was tolled from 11.30 to 12. At 12, a large congregation, 
filling the spacious hall and stage, had assembled. The Confederate veterans marched 
in under command of Capt. J. W. Gary. Mayor Cromer, in language beautiful and 
thrilling, stated the object ot the meeting, and then called the meeting to order. On 
motion of Capt. Wright, Dr. James Mcintosh was called to the Chair and Mr. C F". Boyd 
was requested to act as Secretary. The exercises were then opened witii prayer bj- Rev. 
G. W. Holland, D. D., after which followed addresses bv J. F. J. Caldwell, Esq., Rev. 

E. P. McClintock and Rev. J. S. Cozby, D. D. Judge J. B. Fellers then read the follow- 
ing resolutions, in behalf of the Survivors' Association of Newberry County. They were 
seconded by Jas. Y. Culbreath, Esq., in a few words and were unanimously adopted: 

"The Confederste Survivors' Association of Newberry County, South Carolina, de- 
ploring and lamenting the demise of their beloved and illustrious Chieftan, the Hon. 
Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate States, do in a.ssembly resolve 

"First. That death has removed from time to eternity, and from the presence of those 
who esteem and love him, one of the most notably coTispicuous heroes that has ever 
adorned the annals of American history, and we deeply and sadly join iu the universal 
grief which has stricken the Southern heart. 

"Second. That the fame which he added to the Southern Confederacy; the lustre which 
adorned his name; the valor which crowned his arms; the splendor with which his intel- 
lect shone in the councils of the nation; the statesmanship which he at all times dis- 
played; the unselfish devotion which always characterized his life; the patience and 
forbearance with which he bore defeat; the Christian virtues he e.xhibited in pa.ssing 
through the fien.- ordeals of life, aud his unswer\-iug fidelity to the great principles which 
he advocated, challenge as well our unbounded admiration as that of the civilized 
world; aud they are a sweet heritage which we cherish and hold dear, aud the memory 
of which shall never fade from our hearts, but shall be alwaj's treasured by us as jewels 
in his glorious but now ended earthly career. 

"Third. That it is the unanimous desire that an engrrossed copy of these resolutions 
be transmitted by the Secretary of this Association to the widow of the illustrious dead, 
as a small token of our sincere s3-mpathy and profound grief in this her great lo.ss." 

The benediction was pronounced by Rev. W. S. Wightman. 

The stores aud public buildings iu Newberry were nearly all heavily draped in mourn- 
ing, and were closed from 11.30 A. M. to 2 P. M. 



APPENDIX, 



805 



OFFICERS OF NEWBERRY COUNTY. 
LEGISLATIVE, JUDICIAL AND EXECUTIVE. 

1785-1892. 



MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. 



1802— Levi Casey. 



1830-38 — ^Johii K. Griffin. 1840-42- 
1890-92 — George Johnstone. 



-P. C. Caldwell. 



STATE JUDICIARY. 



Chief Justice : 
1S50-63— John Belton O'Neall. 

Chancellor : 
1828-50— John Belton O'Neall. 
1831-62 — Job Johnstone. 
1846-50 — James J. Caldwell. 

Judge Seventh Circuit: 
1871-76 — Montgomery Moses. 



1891- 



Associate Justice : 
Y. J. Pope.* 
District Judo e : 
1865-6S— Y. J. Pope. 

Solicitor : 
1836 46— James J. Caldwell. 
1846-68 — Simeon Fair. 
1888-92—0. L. Schumpert.f 



" Unexpired term of Heiirj- Mclver. 



tRe-elected in 1892 for second term. 



STATE OFFICERS. 



L ieutenant- Coventor : 

1808-10 — Frederick Nance. 

Secretary of State : 

1882-S6 — Jas. N. Lipscomb. 

Attoniey-Ci'eneral : 

1890-91 — Y. J. Pope.* 

/Railroad Coinniissioner 
1892— J. A. Sligh. 



Adjutant-General : 
1862-64 — A. C. Garlington. 

Superintendent of Penitentiary 
1877-90 — Thos. J. Lipscomb. 

Recent of Lunatic Asylum : 
1883-89 -John C. Wilson. t 



♦Resigned. 



tResigned 1892 at reorganization of Board, 



STATE SENATE. 



1788 
1792 

1796 John Hampton. 
1800 Levi Casey. 

1803 Wm Caldwell. ■■•• 

1804 John Hampton. 
1808 John McMorries. 
1812 Frederick Nance. 
1 8 16 I'Vederick Nance. 
1820 Jphu K. Griffin. 
1824 John K. Griffin. 
1828 John K. Griffin. 



1832! Francis B. Higgius. 
1836 Francis B. Higgins. 
1840 Francis B. Higgins. 
1844 John P. Neel. 
1848 P. C. Caldwell. 
1852 Robert Moorman. 

1855 John P. Kinard.f 

1856 A. C. Garlington. 
i860 A. C. Garlington. 
1864 J. H. Williams. 
i868j C. W. Montgomery 
1872IH. C. Corwin. 



X8761H. C. Corwin. 
1877 Jas. N. Lipscomb.:}: 
1880 Thos. C. Brown. 
i«84'j. A. Sligh. 
1888; Y.J. Pope. 
1 890 Joseph L. Keitt.ll 
1892JJ. A. Sligh.^^ 

Clerk : 
1890 Sampson Pope. 
1892, Sampson Pope. 

I Seargeant at Anns 
1888 J. D. Smith. 



•■■Unexpired term of Levi Casey, elected member of Congress. 

tUnexpired term of Robert Moorman, resigned. 

^Unexpired term of H. C. Corwin, resigned, whose seat was contested. 

(Unexpired term of Y. J. Pope, elected Attorney-General. 

gKlected Railroad Commissioner, December 22, 1892, and resigned. 





HOUSE 


OF 


REPRESENTi^ 


lTH 


/ES. 


1788 




1792 


Jacob R. Brown. 
Levi Casey. 
Philemon Waters. 


1796 


William Dunlap. 
Lewis Saxon. 
John Simpson. 


1790 


Mercer Babb. 


^794 


John Davis. 


1798 


Jacob R. Brown. 




James Mavson. 




William Hunter. 




Levi Casev. 




George Ruff. 




James Saxon. 




Jno. AdamSummer. 



806 



ANNALS 0¥ NEWBEKRY. 



HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.— a?;//'/;/?^r«'. 



1800 
1S02 
1804 
1806 
1 80S 
1810 

1812 

1S14 

1S16 

1S18 

1820 

1822 

1824 
1826 



Jacob R. Brown. 
William Calmes. 
George Herbert. 



William Calmes. 
Frederick Graj-. 
George Herbert. 
Jacob Beiler. 
Samuel E. Kenner. 
James McKibbeu. 
James Dyson. 
Samuel E. Kenner. 
James McKibben. 
Samuel Cannon. 
James Dyson. 
Charles Griffin. 
James Williams. 
John Caldwell. 
John Henderson. 
Samuel E. Keuuer. 
A. Crenshaw. 



Samuel Cannon. 
George W. Glenn. 
John K. Griffin. 
John B. O'Neall. 
Samuel Cannon. 
John K. Griffin. 
Walter Herbert. 
George McCreleys, 
John Counts. 
Abram Dyson. 
Reuben Flanagan, 
Benjamin Maybiu. 

John Bauskett. 
Reuben Flanagan. 
John B. O'Neall. 

John G. Brown. 
John Caldwell. 
Benjamin INIaybin. 
John B. O'Neall. * 
Robert Dunlap. 
George W. Glenn. 
Peter Moon. 
John B. O'Neall.* 



1S28 



1830 



i8:.2 



1834 



1836 



Thomas Bauskett. 
John Caldwell. 
James Graham. 
Walter Herbert. 
John Caldwell. 
James J. Caldwell. 
John Graham. 
B. F. Griffin. 
James J. Caldwell. 
Walter Herbert. 
S. L. Heller. 

Hugh K. Boyd. 
James J. Caldwell. 
Walter Herbert. 



James J. Caldwell. 

P. C. Caldwell. 

James H. Maffett. 

John P. Neel. 
1838 P. C. Caldwell. 

James H. Maffett. 

John P. Neel. 

John H. Williams. 
1840 Simeon Fair. 

C. B. Griffin. 

Thos. H. Pope. 
1842 James Graham. 
j C. B. Griffin. 
Ij. H. King. 
1844' Simeon Fair. 

Isaac Herbert. 

J. H. King. 
1846 Matthew Hall. 

Henry Summer. 

Benjamin Waldo. 
1848 Robert Moorman. 
JR. Pitts. 

Henry Summer. 
1850 A. C.Garlington. 

John P. Kinard. 

Robert Moorman. 
1852 J. M. Crosson. 

A. C. Garlington. 

Reuben G. Pitts. 
1854 J. M. Crosson. 

W. H. Harrington. 

Lambert J. Jones. 
1S56 G. G. DeWalt. 
; Lambert J. Jones. 

T. B. Rutherford. 



1858 



Lambert J. Jones. 
C. H. Suber. 
J. H. Williams. 



i860 
1862 
1864 
1866 
1868 
1870 
1872 
1874 
1876 

1877 
1878 
1880 
1S82 
1884 
1886 
1888 
1890 
1892 



Jas. N. Lipscomb. 
C. H. Suber. 
J. H. Williams. 
J. H. Williams. 
Robt. Stewart. 
C. H. Suber. 
A. C. Garlington. 
Ellison S. Keitt. 
C. H. Suber. 
A. C. Garlington. 
Ellison S. Keitt. 
C. H. Suber. 
Joseph D. Boston. 
Jas. A. Henderson. 
James Hutson. 
Joseph D. Boston. 
Jas. A. Henderson. 
James Hutson. 
Joseph D. Boston. 
S. S. Bridges. 
Juo. T. Henderson. 
Joseph D. Boston. 
S. S. Bridges. 
Isom Greenwood. 
S. S. Bridges. 
Thos. Keitt. 
W. H. Thomas. 
S. S. Bridges, t 
Y. J. Pope.J 
George Johustone|| 
W. M. Dorroh. 
George Johnstone. 
C. H. Suber. 
George Johnstone. 
J. A. Sligh. 
John C. Wilson. 
W. D. Hardy. 
George Johnstone. 
J. A. Sligh. 
W. D. Hardy. 
Sampson Pope. 
O. L. Schumpert. 
E. P. Chalmers. 
Joseph L. Keitt. 
Sampson Pope. 
R. T. C. Hunter. 
J. M. Johnstone. 
Geo. S. Mower. 
Cole. L. Blease. 
W. D Hardy. 
John W. Scott. 
.Cole. L. Blease. 
John T. Duncan. 
W. D. Hardy. 



'' Speaker of the House- 

t63d member sworn in the "Wallace House," making a quorum. 
tElected July 26, 1S77; seat of W. H. Thomas having been declared vacant. 
|i Elected January 9, 1878; seat of Thos. Keitt— convicted of bigamy. 
1868-76 — Negro dotnination and carpetbaggers' misrule. 



APPENDIX. 



807 



CLERK OF COURT. 



1785 
1794 
1807 
1850 
1851 

J«55 



William Malone. 
PVederick Nance. 
Y. J. Harriugton.'' 
John S. (^arwile. 
Burr J. Ramage.f 
Burr J. Ramage. 



118591 Burr J. Ramage. 
i 186^1 Burr J. Ramage. 
1S66 E. P. Lake. 



1868 
1872 
1875 



Thos. M. Lake. 
Jesse C. Smith. 
H. C. Moses. 



18761 Thos. J. Clayton. I 
1877 E. P. Chalmers. 
1880 E. P. Chalmers. 
i884|jas. Y. McFall.^ 
188S Jno. M. Kinard. 
1892 Jno. M. Kinard. 



^Appointed by the Legislature; predecessors by County Court Judges; died in offiee. 
tKirst election by the people. JResigued February, '66. li Failed to give bond. 

§Died iu 1877; Jno. M, Kinard appointed for une.xpired term. 



SHERIFF. 



1785J Thomas Gordon. 
I787i Robert Gillam. 
i?^9| Richard Speake. 
1 7^ I j Richard Watts. 
i795lWm. Satterw'hite. 
1799 PhilemonB. Waters 
1803 Benj. Long. 
i8o7iJames Caldwell. 
181 1! Thos. T. Cureton. 
18 15 1 William Caldwell. 



18191 William Gilliam. 
18231 vSamuel Cannon. 
1 827 1 John S. Carwile. 
i83i|Robert R. Nance. 
1 835 1 Reuben Pitts. 



1839 
1843 
1847 
1851 
1855 



H. H. Kinard. 
John P. Kinard. 
H. H. Kinard. 
James Bonds. 
Wm. W. Houseal. 



1859 
1863 
1863 
1867 
1872 
1877 
1880 
1884 
J 888 
1892 



N. F. Johnston. 
Jas. M. Maffett.* 
Wm. W. Houseal. 
Thos. M. Paysiuger 
J. J. Carringtou. 
D. B. Wheeler, t 
D. B. Wheeler. 
W. W. Riser. 
W. W. Riser. 
W. W. Riser. 



*Elected while in the army and died before reaching home. W. W. Houseal elected. 
tCoutested election (1876) of J. J. Carrington, ousted by decree of court. 



ORDINARY. 



1800 
1815 
1818 
1829 



Samuel Lindsey. 
Jas. Feruandis. 
Thos. T. Cureton. 
William Wilson. 



1 841 

1845 
1849 
1851 



Hugh K. Boyd. 
Hugh K. Boyd. 
Hugh K. Boyd. 
E. P. Lake.f 



1 1 853 
,1857 
1859 
ii863 



E. P. Lake. 
E. P. Lake.. 
E. P. Lake. 
John T. Peterson. 



"First election by the people. The duties of County Ordinary were di.scharged by 
the (bounty Courts, 17S5-1800, when election.'? for life or during good beha%-ior were made 
by the Legislature. fUnexpired term of Hugh K. Boyd, died while in office. 

JUDGE OF PROBATE. ' 



18681 Tuo. T. Peterson. 
1870IJ. C. Leahy. 
1872IJ. C. Leahy. 
1 874 1 J. C. Leahy. 



1 18761 J. C.Leahy. 
1878IJ. B. Fellers. 
i 1880 J. B. Fellers. 
118821 J. B. Fellers. 



1884IJ. B. Fellers. 
1886 J. B. Fellers. 
1888 J. B. Fellers. 
1 890 1 J. B. Fellers. 



COMMISSIONER IN EQUITY. 



1818 Francis B. Higgins. 1834 Drayton Nance. 
1S22 Francis B. Higgins. 1838 Thos. H. Pope.* 
1826 I^ayton Nance. 1840 Lambert J.Jones. 
1830! Drayton Nance. ,1844 Lambert j. Jones. 



1852 James H. Williams. 
1856 Silas Johnstone. 
i860 Silas Johnstone. 
J1864 Silas Johnstone, t 



*Resigned -second year of term. 



tOffice abolished 186S. 



MASTER. 



1878-Silas Johnstone. 



1882-Silas Johnstone. 
1890-Silas Johnstone. 



]886-Silas Johnstone. 



TAX COLLECTOR. 



1 Chas. Crenshaw. 

1812! Ker Boyce.* 
l8i5john S. Carwile.* 
1820 Jas. W. Tinsley, 
J824|jas. W. Tinsley.* 



1824 
18^2 
1S36 
1840 
1S44 



Robert R. Nance. 
Alex. Chambers. 
Hugh K. Boyd. 
Hugh K. Boyd. 
James Bonds. 



J1848 
1852 
1 1 85 6 
U860 
1 1 864 



Jacob Kibler. 
John T. Peterson. 
M. M. Boyd. 
Tolin R. Leavell. 
J. B. Fellers. 



*Resigned;— J. \V. T. at beginning of his .second term. 



808 



ANNALS OF NEWBEEEY. 



TREASURER. 




■'Appointment of Hampton Government 



AUDITOR. 



1868 
1870 
1872 
1874 
1876 



S. Montgomery. 
H. C. Corwin. 
Jas. \V. Haywood. 
R. E. Williams. 
R. E. Williams. 



1877 L. E. Folk.* 



1878 
1880 
1880 
1882 
1884 



L. E. Folk.f 
Jas. N. Lipscomb.: 
John K. Nance. 
John K. Nance. t 
Wm. W. Houseal.; 



1 1 886 
J 888 
I18S9 
1 890 
1890 



1884 Wm. W. Houseal. 1 1892 W. C. Cromer. 



Wm. W. Houseal. 
Wm. W. Houseal. 
W. C. Cromer, j 
W. C. Cromer. 
W. C. Cromer. 



-Appointment of Hampton Goverr.nient. fDied while in office. ^Unexpired term. 





SCHOOE COMMISSIONER. 


1 868 


Wm. Summer. 


1878 


J. C. Boyd. 


1888: Arthur Kibler. 


1870 


Jesse C. Smith. 


1880 


H. S. Boozer. 


1890! Arthur Kibler. 


1872 


M. S. Long. 


1882 


J. C. Bovd. 


1892 Thos. W. Keitt. 


1874 


H. B. Scott. 


1884 


G. G. Sale. 




1876 


M. vS. Long. 


1886 


G. G. Sale. 





CORONER. 



184: 
1846 

1848 

i«57 



John S. Carwile. 
N. Sligh. 
Wm. W. Houseal. 
Wm. B. D'Oyley. 
Henry Halfacre. 



1866 jH. H. Kinard. 1S78JE. C. Longshore. 

1871 1 Wm. Summer. 1884 John N. Bass. 

ii87olM. S. Long. liS88,C. B. Buist* 

,1872 Ijas. A. Henderson., 18921 John W. Reagin.j 
ii874ljas. Eichelberger. !i892!F. M. Lindsay. 



*Died while in office. fUnexpired term, appointed. 



JURY COMMISSIONER. 



1870 
1872 

I •'^74 
1876 
1877 



W. G. Mayes. 


1877 


J. S. Hair. 


Simeon Young. 


1878 


J. S. Hair. 


A. L. vSnead. 


1880 


J. S. Hair. 


A. L. Snead. 


1882 


J. S. Hair. 


Jos. M. Ward. 


1884 


John R. Leavell. 



I [886 John R. Leavell. 
I [888; John R. Leavell. 
1 890. J. N. Feagle. 

1 1 892! J. N. Feagle. 





COUNTY 


COMMISSIONERS. 


1868 




1877 


Henr3' Kennedy. 
L. E. Maffett. 
vSimeon Young. 


1868 


S. B. Aull. 
John J. Kinard. 
P. B. Workman. 


1870 


A. Gregory. 


1878 


Wm. Lester. 


1 888 


J. C. Perry. 




David Hailstock.* 




A. J. Livingston. 




J. H. Smith. 




Simeon Young.* 




J. C. Swittenberg. 




Silas Walker.t 


1872 


Thos. Keitt. 


18S0 


J. C. S. Brown. 


18S9 


0.sborne Wells.l: 




Dennis Moates. 




A. J. Kilgore. 


1890 


John J. Kinard. 




Allen Rice. 




Wm. Lester. 




J. H. Smith. 


1874 


Henry Kenned}-. 


r882 


Jacob Epting. 




Jno. W. Smith. 




Simeon Young. 




A. J. Livingston. 


1 89 2 


Geo. B. Aull. 




Wesley Brown. 




J. D. vSmith. 




J. C. DoiTiinick. 


1876 


Henry Kennedy. 
Simeon Young. 


1884 


John A. Cromer. 
A. J. Livingstone. 




Irby D. Shockley. 




Wesley Brown. 




E. C. Longshore. 







'■'Convicted of official misconduct, June, 1S71; Wm. I^ester and J. N. Martin elected on 
August 8, 1S71, but Gov. .Scott refused to issue their commissions, and he afterwards 
appointed W. p, Harris, Dennis IMoate'S and D. R. Phifer for unexpired term, 

tResigned. [Unexpired term, 



APPENDIX. 



800 



MAGISTRATES. 



1841 

1842 
1843 
1847 
1851 
1852 
1857 



A. Summer. ]i858 

W. M. Armstrong. 

F. C. Ruff. 

F. C. Ruff. i860 

A. P. Brolley. 

V. B. Pope. 

Jno. C. Stewart. 

Wm. K. Blak'e. |i868 

Robt. Garlington. | 



Jos. S. Reid. 
Wm. F. Nance. 
J. Elvin Knotts. 
Sampson Pope. 
Sam'l R. Chapman 
C. W. Herbert. 
Sam'l Bowers. 
Jas. E. Peterson. 
H. H. Kinard. 



1868 



1869 



I. McC. M. Calmes 

Wm. Summer. 

C. C. Chase. 

G. M. Girardeau. 

L. B. Maffett. 

J. P. Kinard. 

Josiah Stewart. 

A. M. Riser. 

M. S. Long. 

Sam'l Dogan. 



TRIAL JUSTICE. 


1870 


Matthew Gray.* 


1879 


Jno. L. Epps. 


1885 


Jas. H. Irby. 




Jesse C. Smith.""' 




Tas. Packer. 




Jno. B. Campbell. 




M. S. Long.f 




B. S. Golding. 




W. W. Wallace. 




Sam'l Dogan. 




M. A. Carlisle. 




Chas. P. Dickert. 




Wm. Summer. 




Jno. T. Bynum. 




Jos. S. Reid. 




A. M. Riser.* 


1S80 


Jas. R. Irwin. 




J. L. Epps. 




J. T. Henderson.* 




Jno. S. Fair. 




B. B. Hair. 




L. B. Maffett. 




M. A. Carlisle. 




Jno. S. Fair. 




T. B. Heller. 


1881 


A. H. • Wheeler, t 




C. P. Dickert. 


1871 


J. T. Peterson.; 




Jas. Packer. 


1886 


Jas. H. Irby. 




J. D. Pitts. 




Jas. R. Irwin.; 




Jos. L. Keitt..t 




F. H. Whitney. 




M. M. Buford. 


1887 


H. H. Blease.; 




Sam'l Furmau.j 




M. J. Boyd. 




W. G. Peterson. 




Jesse C. Smith, t 




B. H. Maybiu. 




Jno. B. Campbell. 




A. R. Gautt. 




J. B. Heller. 




Chas. P. Dickert. 




Wm. Summer. 




J. L. Epps. 




H. S. Boozer. + 




G. P. Jacoby. 




W. G. Peterson. 


1888 


B. B. Hair. 


1872 


Simeon Young. 




Jas. N. Lipscomb. J 




Harry H. Blease. 


1873 


C. C. Chase. 




Jno. B. Campbell. 




W. G. Peterson. 




F. C. Aldridge. 


1882 


J.B.O'N.Holloway. 




Jno. B. Campbell. 




Wm. H. Thomas. 




J. B. Heller. 




Chas. P. Dickert. 


1874 


A. R. Gantt. 




P. E. Wise. 


1889 


G. M. Girardeau. 




G. P. Jacoby. 




W. W. Wallace. 




B. B. Hair. 




M. L. Louis. 


1883 


Jas. Packer, t 




Geo. P. Hill.t 




R. W. Boone. 




Jno. S. Fair. 




J. W. D. Johnson. 




W. H. Thomas. 




W. G. Peterson. 




Jas. H. Irby. 


1875 D. R. Phifer. 




M. M. Buford. 




W. G. Petenson. 




Thos. P. Slider. 




J.B.O'N.Holloway. 




Chas. P. Dickert. 




Jas. F. Kilgore. 




J. B. Heller. 


1891 


P. E. Wise. 




F. C. Aldridge. 




W. W. Wallace. 




R. C. Maybiu. 




J. B. Heller. 




Jno. B. Campbell. 




W. G. Peterson. 


1876 


Dennis Moates. 




J. L. Epps. 




N. W. Gregory'. 




J. F. Sims. 




Jos. S. Reid. 




Wm. C. Sligh. 


1877 


D. M. Ward. 




B. H. Maybin.J 




J. B. Heller. 




Jones Lowman. 




R. vS. Davidson. 




Jas.|S. McCarlev. 




Jas. Packer. 




A. H. Wheeler. 


1893 


H. H. Evans. 




M. A. Carlisle. 




Chas. P. Dickert. 




S. L. Fellers. 




Jno. T. By num. 




H. H. Blease. 




Jas. S. McCarlev. 




Jno. W. Riser. 


1884 


Jas. H. Irby. 




J. W. D. Johnson. 




Jas. N. Lipscomb. 


1885 


H. H. Blease. 




W. G. Peterson. 




Jacob B. Fellers. 




T. L.'Schumpert.i 




M. J. Longshore. 




Thos. W. Holloway 




R. S. "Davidson, j 




L. W. Etheridge. 


1S78 


A. H. Wheeler. 




J.B.O'N.Holloway. 




G. M. Siugley. 


1879 


M. M. Buford. 




W. G. Peterson. 




J. B. Heller. 




SUPER 


VIS" 


DR OF REGISTRY 


mc 


N. 



1882 Wm. Y. Fair. 1886 A. H. Kohn. 

i884jWm. Y. Fair. |i888|a. H. Kohn. 

♦Not confirme<l'. fRemoved. {Resigned. 



1890 
1 1 892 



D. M.'Langford.; 
B. B. Schumpert.il 



■1 Also unexpired teim, 1S91. 



810 



ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 



POPULATION OF NEWBERRY COUNTY 



Townships. 



iS8o 



Newberry (iucluding the town) 4482 

Caldwell 1556 

Maybintou .... ; 1504 

Cromers i 2681 

Reeders ] 2244 

Floyds 2830 

Moons 2102 

Mendenhall 1 2230 

Stoney Battery 2628 

Cannons 1840 

Hellers 2400 



1S90 I ^ 



4881 
1635 
1181 
2223 
2120 
2639 
2265 
2123 
3526 
1658 
2195 



Totals 1 26497!; 126446 



399 

78 



i6i 



898 



323' 
458 
124 
191 

107 



1880. 

Population of Town of Newberry 2342 

Population of Town of Prosperity 357 



These figures show that a large number of people are moving to towns — the popula- 
tion of the Countj', outside of the towns, having fallen off nearly one thousand, and 
the towns having increased in the same ratio during 1880-90. '''Estimated. 



THE COLUMBIA, NEWBERRY AND LAURENS RAILROAD. 

When Judge O'Neall wrote his Annals the Columbia and Greenville 
Railroad was just about completed. That, with the branch to Laurens, 
was the only railroad Newberry had for nearly forty years. 

In 1884 there was talk of a narrow guage being built from Augusta to 
Newberry, and No. 1 Township voted ?40,00() and No. 8 Township $10,0U() 
in bonds to this enterpri.se. The road was graded, and then it was turned 
over to the Charleston, (incinuati and Chicago Railroad, and was to be 
extended to Blacksburg, where it touches the main line of this system. 

Nothing has been done on this enterpri.se for the past two or three 
years, but it is only a matter of time when this road will be completed. 

Another system which the town has missed and ought to have secured 
is the Georgia, C'-rolina and Northern. It passes through the northern 
edge of the county and strikes Clmton.;^ Newberry ".should have' secured 
this system; but it is gone now. 

The building of the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad was 
fir^t agitated by Mr. H. C. Moseley and Rev. J. A. Sligh, of Prosperity, 
and Messrs. G. S Mower and M. A. Carlisle, of Newberry, in the spring 
and summer of 1885. This railr.oad was incorporated by Act of the Leg- 
islature in I8S5, and the Act was amended at the session of 1886. '■ The 
corporators from Newberry were: J. A. Sligh, H. C. Moseley, G. G. De- 
Walt, L. S. Bowers, J. M. Wheeler, R. L. Luther. A. G. Wise, G. S- 
Mower, J. P. Pool, Y. J. Pope. O. B. Mayer, Jr.,'.M. A. Carlisle, Wm. 
Langford, O. L. Schumpert and Geo. S. Cannon. 

A meeting of the corporators was held on 14th January. 188(5, and ap- 
pointed a sub-committee to procure .^20,000 in private subscriptions. 

In the spring of 1886 the first meeting of the stockholders was held at 
Newberry to see what had been done in the way of securing suLiscrip- 
tions. The $20,000 had to subscribed be before an organization could be 
effected, and Mr. J. O. Meredith was appointed solicitor to raise this 
amount in Newberry, Lexington Fork and Columbia. 

After that a meeting Avas held in Columbia and an organization, 



APPENDIX. 811 

effected as follows: H. C. Moseley, President; R. S. Desportes, Vice-Presi- 
dent; C. J. Iredell, Secretary and Treasurer; M. A. Carlisle, Attorney. 
The other Directors elected were: G. S. Mower, A. G. Wise, J. A. bligh, 
M, Chapin, G. R. Shealy, G. Leaphart, W. B. Lowrance, T. T. Moore. 
After that, township subscriptions were secured as follows: 

In Newberry, No. 9 gave first $15,000; No. 1, S10,000. In"" Lexington, 
Saluda, $10,500; Broad River, $15,000; Fork, $14,500; and Columbia, 
840,000. Rev. J. A. SUgh and H. C. Moseley, M. A.' Carlisle and Geo. S. 
Mower were largely instrumental in securing the township subscriptions. 

Some persons who opposed the township subscriptions carried the 
matter into the Courts, and the Supreme Court decided they were uncon- 
stitutional. This gave the enterprise a black eye, but the Legislature 
passed a validating Act and the bonds were placed. 

Through the influence of the promoters of the scheme a Construction 
Company was organized in May, 1889, and took the contract to build the 
road to Newberry. 

Mr. H. C. Moseley resigned as President in October, 1889. He had 
served in that capacity from the beginning of the enterprise three years 
before, and by the signal ability and skill with which he discharged 
the difficult work of his position, demonstrated the wisdom and discrim- 
ination of those who had placed him at the head of the enterprise. 
The grading was nearly completed to Newberry; the rock piers for the 
bridge at Columbia had been built, and the rails were on the ground. 
He gave up the presidency because of the urgent demands of his private 
business upon his time. The stockholders at their meeting on October 
1st, 1889, adopted unanimously the following resolution offered by Dr. 
James Woodrow: 

Whereas, our former President, Capt. H. C. Moseley, having declined re-election on 
account of the increased labors now required of that office and the demands of his pri- 
vate business upon him; and, whereas, the zeal and fidelity displayed by him iu his 
eflbrts, on behalf of the enterprise now about to be achieved, have been of the highest 
order, and it is in a great measure due to them that the Columbia, Newberry and 
I<aurens Railroad is now a thing of the near future, be it 

Resolved, That we, the stockholders, extend to him our heartfelt thanks for his ser- 
vices so energetically and unselfishly rendered, [and hope that his labors in the future 
may always be, as they have been in the past, crownedjwith an abundant measure of 
success. 

Mr. Moseley was complimented by the directors by being unanimously 
elected Vice-President, which position he still holds. 

Mr. W. G. Childs, a successful financier and business man of Columbia, 
was elected his successor, and is still President of the road. 

Capt. C. J. Iredell, as Secretary and Treasurer, was active and ren- 
dered valuable assistance in the building of the road. 

The road was completed to Newberry Ist July, 1890, and opened for busi- 
ness 15th July, 1890. It was then built to Clinton, and completed to that 
point May, 1891. Mr. C. J. Ellis was the Civil Engineer of the road until 
it was comjjleted. The irst year it was operated by the South Carolina 
Road, but in June, 1892, a deal was made with the Atlantic Coast Line, 
and now it is operated in connection with that road and the Sea Board 
Air Line. Capt. C. O. Little is the Superintendent, and the road is doing 
a good business; and it is increasing, thereby demonstrating the wisdom 
of its friends in projecting the enterprise. It is the connecting link be- 
tween two great systems. 

The first train on this road was in charge of Capt. P. C. Gaillard, who 
ha ! identified himself more fully with Newberry by securing a life part- 
ner from among her daughters — Miss Eoline Alerchant. 

The telegraph line on the Columbia and GreenvillelRailroad was com- 
pleted to Newberry on Wednesday, July 5th, 1871. The first dispatch 
was a congratulatory message sent by President Bush to Thos. M. Pay- 
singer, then Sheriff* of the County. Before the war there was, however, 
a line run several miles towards Columbia from one of, the newspaper 
offices, with the intention of its completion and the*'publication of a 
daily newspaper, which was never accomplished. 



<St2 ANNALS OF NEWBERRY. 

BIOGRAPHICAI,. 

Nancb;. 

Of the descendants of Major Frederick Nance, who was the first settler 
at the County Seat of Newberr}^ County, there are many of whom this 
writer has never heard and knows nothing. Besides those living in 
recent times— Maj. W. F. Nance, Col. J. D. Nance, Capt. J. K. G. Nance, 
and others, whoss names appear in the body of this work — I feel that I 
must mention Col. F. W. R. Nance, now Sheriff of Abbeville County. 

Capt. J. K. G. Nance, at the time of his death, in December, 18S4, was 
Auditor of the County of Newberry, and was at the time the only one in 
the county bearing the name who was the head of a family. He left 
several sons, two of whom are now happily married, one to Miss Sease, 
daughter of G. L. Sease, and the other to Miss Sease, cousin to the 
former and daughter of J. L. Sease. 

vSlMEON Pr.\TT. 

Simeon Pratt was one of the writers of Newberry. He never wrote and 
published a book, but his contributions to the papers, especially for a few 
years after the war, would have made a volume of respectable size. His 
sketches of the war and of his personal experiences during that time 
were of considerable interest. He called himself the "Queer Recruit," a 
name that was given to him by some of his comrades soon after he joined 
the army. Simeon Pratt was never engaged in business here, nor was he 
ever married. He died in Mississippi in 1890. He was a member of the 
Baptist Church, and was an amiable and pleasant gentleman. His father 
was Thomas Pratt, who, for many years in old days, was an active, ener- 
getic and useful merchant of this town. The house in which he lived 
and died, and which, I believe, he built, still stands at the corner of 
Friend and Nance vStreets, facing neither street, but towards the corner. 

Crosson. 

The Crossons were among the earlier settlers of Newberry. Before the 
Revolutionary War they came from the North of Ireland and settled in 
the Shenandoah Vallej' in Virginia. Branches of the family are to be 
found in Illinois, Arkansas, Texas and South Carolina. 

Thomas Crosson moTed to Newberry, prior to the Revolution, with his 
two sons, Alexander and John, aud some daughters. Thomas was the 
son of Alexander. John Crosson was a lad during the Revolutionary 
War. He settled near Jalapa upon what was known as the Beasley road. 
He died about 1829, leaying one child, David. They were both Cove- 
nanters aud were buried in the old Covenanter graveyard. After the 
Reformed (Covenanter) and Associate Presbyterians united and formed 
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, David became a member of 
that Church, as did his warm friend James Sloan (Long Jimmie), and 
together they with others were instrumental in building the Head Spring 
Church. In 1821 David married Isabella Speuce. Some one told his 
mother he was going to marry a Scotch lass that could not speak English. 
"Well," the old lady replied, "it is Davy that marries— not me." She 
was the daughter of James Spence and H. Murray, and the niece of 
Samuel Spence (spoken of in O'Neall's Annals), and whose reuiark to 
his grand nephew is worth remembering: "Jamie, there's no harm in a 
joog if you don't take the stapper out too aften." Isabella was well ed- 
ucated, having graduated in a Moravian school at Ballymena, Ireland. 
Her parents came from vScotland to Newberry in 1820. David after his 
first marriage lived about a mile from Jalapa and at the time of his death 
in the town of Newberry. He was a man of strong religious convictions, 
kind and generous, a friend to the poor, and was by them much lamented. 
He believed that slavery was a sin, and hence set his negroes free. 

Out of his five children, John Wylie and Eliza sleep in the Covenanter 



Appendix. 



813 



Churchyard. Sarah married S. S. Gaillard, a Presbyterian minister, now 
dead. She, with her sister Mary, lives in Griffin, Ga. 

Jas. M. is a lawyer and lives in Runnels County, Texas. He repre- 
sented Newberry twice in the Legislature and was probably the first to 
introduce a bill to create an agricultural professorship. The bill failed. 
He was Colonel of I oth Regiment, Cavalry. In 1848 he married Helen 
Maria James, daughter of Jno. Stobo James and Elizabeth Pope, at the 
house of her uncle-in-law, Judge O'Neall. She is the sister of Capt. 
Geo. S. James, who fired the first gun on Fort Sumter, and a descendant 
of Archibald Stobo, the first Presbyterian preacher in Charleston. James 
M. went to Texas in 1857. He has filled the office of Judge and District 
Attorney, and has had a very extensive legal practive there. Although 
opposed to the policy of Secession, he entered the Confederate Army in 
1 86 1 and was Major of the 4th Texas Cavalry. He has four daughters, 
who have all married energetic, successful business men who are Chris- 
tian gentlemen. His son Thomas T., born iu Newberry, is District 
Attorney, — a fine lawyer and forcible and eloquent speaker. 

Samuel J. Red was an earlj^ settler of Newberrj', and probablj' came 
from Abbeville. At the time of his death, about 1836, he lived on Bush 
River, at what is now known as Piester's Mill. He and his wife were 
Covenanters and set their negroes free. He was a good man. He left a 
son, Dr. Geo. W., and several daughters, one of whom married Thomas 
Henderson of Abbeville. They all moved to Texas. Dr. Geo. W. is dead, 
leaving three children — one a Presbyterian preacher, one a very promis- 
ing young physician in Houston, and the daughter, Lil Purcell, is at the 
head of the Stuart Female Institute in Austin— one of the schools in 
Texas. All of S. J. Red's daughters are dead. Mrs. Henderson left 
three sons— John, who lost an arm in Virginia, is Judge; Thomas is a 
member of the Legislature, and Sam'l J. a prosperous financier. The 
danghter, Mrs. Alice Fowler is a remarkably intelligent woman. 

Stile-s Hurd 

Was born in Brookfield, Conn., 17th April, 1814. He came to New- 
berry in 1842 and engaged in business, it is believed, with his brother-in- 
law, David Jennings, who was a member of the firm of Jennings, Toinlin- 
80U & Co., of Charleston, and of Condict, Jennings & Co. of New York, 
wholesale and retail dealers in saddlery and harness. In the latter part 
of the year 1843 Mr, Hurd, having been encouraged by his success in 
business, brought his family, then consisting of his wife and three daugh- 
ters, to Newberry, and made this town his permanent home until 186G, 
when he removed to Stratford, Conn., where he died 18th December, 1891. 

The Bridgeport (Connecticut) journals, on the morning after his death, 
paid a just tribute to his memory. There was a remarkable unanimity 
in their estimate of his genuine worth. He was pronounced by these 
journalists as a man of sterling integrity, upright and honorable in all 
his dealings, kind and charitable to all men, and possessed of a gentle- 
ness of disposition that won for him the esteem and love of all who knew 
him. This is entirely true, but it is bare justice. In one of these notices 
—that of the Bridgeport Standard — there was an error, however, which 
should be corrected. After a very kind tribute, the editor makes this 
statement: "At the breaking out of the rebellion he came North with his 
family and engaged in business in Bridgeport, his family residing in 
Stratford. About fifteen years ago he retired from busmess, and has 
since lived very quietly at his home. His property at the South had been 
confiscated, but was restored to him after the close of the war." 

Mr. Hurd was thoroughly American— loved the whole country. At- 
tached to the place of his birth, he also loved the home of his adoption, 
and was a thorough South Carolinian by choice. He was a Ir>tate8right 
Democrat. Living amongst us, he soon saw that slaveholders were not 



814 ANNALS OF NEWBEKEV. 

the cruel task-masters that fanatics represented them, and that the so- 
called downtrodden negro slaves were a happy people, and he became 
a slaveholder himself. He was attached to the political principles of the 
State, and was always on the side of the right and the good. Unassum- 
ing, he was Hever a partisan, but was unflinching in what he thought his 
duty. He was a Secessionist, that is, he believed that a State had a right 
to secede, but possibly that the exercise of that right might be inexpe- 
dient. He did not regard the war between the States as a rebellion, for 
he could not be convinced that it was possible that one sovereign could 
rebel against another; but, like all true Carolmians, believed the late 
Civil War was a war of invasion. And though a Northern man by birth, 
and having all of his kinsmen, possibly without a single exception, living 
in New England, he could not take part with the North in this crusade. 
South Carolina stood in need of his services, and he did not withhold 
them, although he was over the age of conscription. He was not in active 
service in the field, btit served well in some quartermaster's department. 

One morning it transpired, without Mr. Hurd's knowledge, that his 
household in Newberry — by whom the weary, worn soldiers were enter- 
tained—had accommodated, on the night before, eleven poor, fatigued 
privates with food and lodging. This aroused the citizens to a sense of 
their duty, and then it was that our people undertook to care for them, 
and regularly every day had tables spread for the passing soldiers. 

It sounds strangely to the Northerner, where whole households were 
not personally acquainted with a single person engaged in the Federal 
Army, when told that there was scarcely a hearthstone in the South that 
was not saddened by the loss of some loved one of the household 
Every able-bodied white man in South Carolina was in the Confederate 
Army. Hu.sbands and sons all in the army, wives and children of 
the inhabitants of the sea coasts sought refuge in the middle and upper 
counties of the State. Hundreds and hundreds of them came to New- 
berry. A year or two after the war some young persons of the town were 
endeavoring to recall the names of the refugees at this place, and they 
numbered over five hundred of different patronymics. These people for 
the most part were unaccustomed to country life — were in the habit daily 
of marketing for their wants, and knew nothing of foraging. Here was an 
opportunity for the unselfish of our community to do kindness. Mr 
Hurd, who was always doing good, soon saw this chance; and he was so 
active and so successful in procuring supplies for the refugees, that he 
aroused the suspicions of some few persons to whom he was not well 
known, who charged him with engrossing these articles of food with a 
view to speculation. A public meeting was called for the purpose of de- 
nouncing him. A number of his friends, hearing of the call, attended the 
meeting, and indignantly refuted the charge. They disclosed the true 
purpose of this benevolent man and made manifest the good deeds that 
he was doing in secret; and the whole matter resulted to his credit, and 
to the satisfaction of his accusers, who were convinced of their mistake. 
But so mortified was he at being so charged, though falsely, and so 
great was his sensitiveness, that he could not dismiss it from his mind, 
and as soon as he was able, after peace was declared, he left the home 
of his adoption, never to return or revisit it. So Newberry lost one of 
her best citizens — one unsurpassed in moral excellence— who had spent 
the prime years of his life in this community. 

It seems that he was the first Episcopalian who ever resided in New- 
berry, and to 1846, when that Church was organized at this place, his 
immediate family, with one exception, were the onh' members now re- 
membered. He was largely, if not solely, instrumental in its permanent 
organization, and was one of its Wardens until his removal from the State 
in 1 8G6. But now for him 

" is o'erpast 

The needless' fret, the strife, 

The troubles and the wearine.ss 

That crush this mortal life." 



APPENDIX. 815 

THE COxVFEDERATE DEAD. 

As a matter of interest to the people of Newberry, as well as to the 
people of the whole State, I think it well to give a copy of the 
inscription on the monument to the memory of the ''Confederate Dead," 
in Columbia, S. C. The inscription was written by Hon. William C. 
Preston, and is as follows on the obverse sides: 

THIS MONUMENT I-kt thr strancer. 

Who mav in future times, 
Perpetuates the Memory Read this inscription, 

Recofoiize that these were men, 
of those who, Whom power could not corrupt. 

True to the instincts of their birth. Whom death could not terrifv. 

Faithful to the Teachings of their Fathers, Whom defeat could not dishonor; 

Constant in their love for the State, And let their virtues plead 

Died in the performance of their duty, , ^ »-'or ^ust judgment 

•^ VVho of the cause in which they perished. 

Have irlorifierl a fAllpn cause '-*-t ^"^- S«^'T" Carolinian 

nave giormea a laiien catise of another generation 

By the simple manhood of their lives, Remenilier 

The patient endurance of sufferinR, .,.,,gt fj^p j^j^te taught thcni 

And the Heroism of Death, How to live and how to die, 

And who. And that, from her broken fortunes. 

In the dark hours of imprisonment, .she has preserved for her children 

In the hopelessness of the hospital, The priceless treasure of their memories. 

In the short, sharp agony of the field. Teaching all who may claim 

Found support and consolation The same birthright. 

In the belief That Trtth, Coiraok ani» I'ATRU)TiSM 

That at home thtv would not be forgotten. FNDl'RK FOR1-;vi;r. 



ROSEMONT CEMETERY. 

Of quiet, holy Sabbath days it sometimes gives nic a calm, though «'* 
melancholy, pleasure to walk and meditate and rest in the vSilent City 
adjoining our town; to muse there upon the brevity of human life. How 
soon we are forced to migrate from this to another country; to a better, 
we hope. That city is peopled, like our own noisy one, with inliaV)itants 
of all ages, from the wee barlie, whose e3-es were just opened into this 
world, to the old, who have passed their three-score years and ten. One 
corresponds to the other in all particulars- this is a city of bustle and 
activity — that, as far as we can see and know, is one of stillness and 
repose. Eternal peace broods over it. 

Once when attending a burial service there I heard, or thought I heard, 
— I do not believe it was a fanc)-, but a reality, — in response to the sing- 
ing at the grave of the dead child, ethereal voices far up in the air, making 
the sweetest, most angelic music that everjfell upon mv car save only in 
dreams. No, it was no fancy. A friend once told me, who now himself 
sleeps there, that riding jiast there one afternoon alone he heard, floating 
far up above the City of the Dead, music, for sweetness and happiness of 
tone, indescribable. He said he had never before mentioned it to any one 
for fear of being laughed at. I told him that he need not hesitate on that 
account, for I had heard the same. lUit I have never been so happy as 
to hear those ethereal tones, at that place since, the burial of that little 
child. 

It is in a rcry solemn spirit that I reail the many and varied tributes 
to the departed unon the stones erected to jierpetuale their memory. 
One upon the headstone of the grave of a little chilil impressed me much, 
a good many years ago, as 1)eing exceedingly beautiful. IMother and 
child are both gone, and, if our hopes are well-founded, they are together 
now, and the child is no longer a cliild, but a bright and lovely youth 



810 ANNALS OF NEWBEKUY. 

blooming in eternal beauty. I do not know the author of the lines, never 
having seen them lx^fore I found them engraved upon that rock: 
"Full short his journey was, no dust 

of earth unto his sandals clave; 
The weary weight that old men must, 
lie bore not to the jjrave." 

Then a little further on, and near the highest part of the cemetery wc 
come to the grave of one who was very dear to me. She was as adaii<'li- 
ter, her father being for a number of years a neighbor and true friend. 
And she herself, during the brightest years of her maidenhood and early 
womanhood, was daily with my own chiMren. The inscription upon the 
marble column that marks the spot where she sleeps was written by Mai 
William T. Nance, and is as follows: 

i;i.iZAHKTn Moorman Wardi.aw ' 

Her happy life was distinguished 

Hy a ct)nstant, innocent joyousness, 

Hy a uniform sweetness of temper, 

ijy a wide benevolence of heart, 

Hy an upright gracefulness of txmchict, 

(loverneil always by i)urity of moti\e; 

Always sustaine<l 

IJy a pure, unostentatious piety. 

By an unfaltering trust in Jesus Christ, 

She calmly passed to the higher life 

June 27th, 1S77. 

.\nd then not far away there is a stone upon which we read these 
worils : 

"I'letend not that I am of saintly fame. 

Let mercy save me! 
Sufficient for m.,- epitaph the name 
My mother gave me." 
liornDec. 16th, iSsq, Died .\pril 12th, 1SS7. 
Only 27 years old, Johnnie had already made a 
Record for him.self for intellectual ability, 
Kidelity to duty, honesty, 
Uprightness of nurpo.se, and as being 
"Fearless of (langer, 
To falsehood a stranger; 
Looking not back 

Where there's duty before " 

The last time I saw John 1?. Jones in health was the morning of the 
day in whicli he received his fatal wound, as he rode past in front of inv 
Bookstore, on that amljling white horse, as he was in the habit of doinj^ 
altnost every day on his way to his office. I coidd but think of him tluii 
as a young man of much promise, in robust health, just entering upon a 
long career of usefulness in active life. I knew nothing of any impend- 
ing difficulty; knew not that he had any misunderstanding with any ])er- 
son in the world, but saw him ride by, bouyant and full of health, and 
thought of hint as of one whom I might envy, if I could ever envy any 
one. In a little while I heard of his fatal hurt. lie has passed, I liojje, 
to a country where there is no fighting. 

Let us stop a little while at one other grave before we leave Ri setnont. 
She who .sleeps here was a good child. The stone tells not the date of 
her birUi nor death, but only this: 

.\NN.\ Moktimi;r. 

< ) she was good I 
So pure' if ever mortal form contained 
The spirit of an angel, it was hers. 

Reader! it is time that I close this book. It is already too large. 
There are other works that I want to accomj)lish before I go hence. Hut 
if Time tells the truth it cannot be many years before I give you, and it 
may be that I ii07C give you, the last ^ 

II. ML .\N1) 1' AKlWLLLl 



INDEX 



PART FI R ST 



Academy, liethel, 53. 

Academy, Newberry, 68. 

Auger, (screw) invented by Ben- 
jamin Kvans, a Quaker, inhabi- 
tant of Newberry, (note) 36. 

Agricultural Society, Newberry, 138 

Academy, Female, 138. 

Anderson, John, 85. 

Adams, Dr. Freeborn, 131. 

B. 

IJattle of ]\Iusgrove's Mills, Col. 
Shelby's account, 263. 

Battle of King's Mountain, (Ram- 
say's History of Tennessee,) 266. ■ 
Col. Willis' account, 276. 

Bounty Grants and Headrights, the 
cause of the adhesion of the Irish 
and Germans to the King, 24. 

Boyce, Ker, memoir, 97. 

Boyd, Hugh K., 114. 

Bonds, James, 117. 

Boyce, Robert, 118. 

Boyce, John, Jr., iiH. 

Brown, John G., Esq., 126. 

Boyce, John, Sr., and his sons, 45. 
Memoir, 212. 

Boozer, David, 137. 

Baptist Church, Bush River, origin, 
pastors and history, 141. 

Bonds, Noah, anecdote of shooting 
a man with his big rifle across 
Broad River at Fish Dam ford, 159. 

Brown, Jacob Roberts, memoir, 186. 

Boyce, Capt. Alexander, death at 
siege pf Savannah, 213. 

Burke, Judge, 235. 

Brown, Wm. Spencer, Chief F^ngr. 

• G. .S: C. R. R., Appendix, 307. 

Baptist Settlement on fork between 
Little River and Saluda, 55. 

Brooks, Daniel, 88. 
C. 

County Court Acts and County 
Court of Newberry, 13. 
Carues' substitute for a gown, 19. 
Carnes' trick upon Shaw at, 20. 
I'addy Bradley's advice to, 18. 
Robert Starks' practical defini- 
tion of assault and battery on 
Peter Carnes, 20. 



Crenshaw, Charles, 54. 

Coxes, the, and anecdotes, 60. 

Clarey, Col. Daniel, 60. 

Conwill, Joe, cured of hydrophobia, 
62. 

Chapman, Rev. Giles, 65. 

Clegg, Richard, schoolmaster, 68. 

Coate, John, (little) 79. 

Coate, Capt. Henry, with an anec- 
dote relative to the resurrection 
of Tannyhill, executed for h(Jrse 
stealing by the settlers, 79. 

Cappleman's tro«p of cavalry, anec- 
aote (note), 80. 

Caldwell, William, (Long Billy) 96. 

Cureton, Thos. Taylor, 102. 

Carwile, John S., memoir, 103. 

Cannon, Col. Samuel, 107. 

Chambers, Alexander, 117. 

Coate, Marmaduke, 121. 

Crenshaw, Judge Anderson, 124. 

Caldwell, John, Esq., 125. 

Caldwell, Chancellor James J., 127. 

Chandler, Mordecai, 158. 

Cureton, Capt. John Caldwell and 
John Clarke, 159. 

Campbell, John, 168. 

Calmes, William, memoir, 178. 

Caldwell, Major John, memoir, 205^- 

Calhoun, Patrick, anecdote, 205. 

Cunningham, Capt. William, 209. 

Caldwell, Wm., memoir, 229. 

Caldwell, James, memoir, 234. 

Constables imprisonment at New- 
berry," 1807, the origin of the Act 
of 181 1, 56. 

D. 

Dutch Fork, German settlement, its 
inhabitants and founders, 21. 

Dutch Fork and its inhabitants, 22. 
German Honesty, anecdote, 81. 

DeGraffenreid and Mitchell, agree- 
ment to transport the Palatines to 
North Carolina, 22. 
Lands of the Palatines, (note) 22. 

Dugan, Col. Thomas, 53. 

Dunkers, or Dunkards, 65. 

Downs, John and Thomas, 67. 

Daugherty, James, (note) 95. 

Dugan, George, 116. 

Durkie, Nathaniel, iiS. 

Davidson, John B., 120. 



INDEX. 



Dun lap, Robert, Esq., 127. 
Dobson, Dr. Daniel, 132. 
Diwer, James, 136. 

E. 

Eastland, Ezekiab, 115. 
Eppes, George F., 128. 
Eddins, Benjamin, memoir, 247. 
Eddins, William, memoir, 249. 
Enoree and Duncan's Creek settle- 
ments, 51. 
Edwards Family', 59. 

F. 

Fair, William and his sous, 41. 

Fleming, James, subject of Lynch 
Law, 42. 

Fleming, James, an accident to him 
and a subsequent surgical opera- 
tion, 42. 

Finch, Edward, 54. 

Finch, Dr. Ivy, death, 54. 

Farnandis, James, 94. 

Fork between Enoree and Tiger 
Rivers, and its inhabitants, 150^ 
Devotion of its people to liberty, 

163. 

Frean, the Rev. Thos., 79. 

Ferguson, Colonel, his march before 
the battleof King's Mountain, 161 

Fire in Charleston, Jan., 177S, 213. 

Flour, high price of in the war of 
1812 — anecdotes, 291. 

Freshet of August, 1S52— its effects 
in South Carolina, North Caro- 
lina, Georgia and Alabama, 298. 

Friends' (called (Quakers') settle- 
ment, names of mhabitants, 28^ 
Account of, 30. 



Gray, Major Frederick, 24. 

Gordon, James, and an anecdote, 47. 

Gregg, William, 42 

Guun, David, (note) 91. 

Gould, William, 62. 

Gould, John, 93-94. 

Gracy, John I., 122. 

Gray, Simon P., Esq , 127. 

Grasty, Sashal, 157. 

Griffin, Gen. John K., 14S. 

Griffin, Col. B. P., i4'9. 

Gordon, Thomas, a Revolutionary 
soldier, and first Sheriff of New- 
berry, 159. 

Gillani, Klizabeth, memoir, 199. 

Gillam, Major Robert, nicnioir, 242. 

Gillam, Robert, (the son of Major 
Robert, ) niL'uioir, 245. 

Glenn, Col. David, memoir, 190. 



Glenn, Col. John, Dr. George W. 
(sons of Col. David,) 198. 

Greenville and Columbia Railroad, 
when it reached Newberry, 77' 
injury to it in the freshet of I'Ssz,' 
296; writing to assess the Stock- 
holders' account of it, 314. 

H. 

Hunter, William, Irish weaver 

great age of, 41. 
Hughes, James, one hundred and 

ten years old, (note) 44. 
Husband, Young, his castle, and an 

anecdote, 57. 
Howe, James, schoolmaster, 67. 
Hodgers, Rev. N. W., 78. - 
Harrington, Young John, memoir, 

no. 
Higgins, F. B., 114. 
Holman, John, 122. 
Hutchison, Hiram, 122. 
Harrington, Spencer C, 129. 
Henderson, John, 164. 
Harriss, Burr Calvert, memoir, 167. 
Haynie, Maximilian, memoir, 224. 

I. 

Irish settlement. Stone Halls, names 

of inhabitants, 40. 

Mills and inhabitants, 42. 

Irish anecdotes, 45. 
Indians' irruption of 1760, 49. 

J- 

Julien, Peter, suicide, 86. 

Jones, L. J., 115. 

Johnston, John, 117. 

Johnston, Dr. Burr, 132. 

Jones, Capt. Johnson, Charles Lit- 
tleton, and William Greer, 160. 

Johnson, David, ex-Governor, trilj- 
ute to his memory, Appendix, 320, 

K. 

Kelly, James and Edmund, 53. 
Kelly, James, 157. 
Ker, Samuel, first lawver at New- 
berry, 88. 
Kinanl, Gen. H. II., 109. 
Kinard, Maj. John P., 109. 
Kenner, Samuel Iv, Ivscj., 164. 



Long'.s Bridge, settlement there, 

when, 49. 
levies, Col. James, 52. 
Long, Maj. Benjamin, 59. 
Linusey, Samuel, Ordinary, 83. 
Lewis, Jacob, au«l an anecdote, 85. 



INDEX. 



Ill 



Lyles, Col. John, 156. 

Lyles, (others of the name than 

Col. John,) 156. 
Love, Matthew, his execution, by 

James Caldwell and pthers, 235 ; 

Article preceding ' the account 

given in the records of the Court 

at Ninety-Six, 237. 

Account taken from the journals 

of the Court at Ninety-Six, 238. 

M. 

Merchandise, prices in 17 77- 1783, 
(note) 37. 

McQuems, Samuel, residence, and 
great physical powers, 40, 
Description of the sinking of the 
Royal George at Spithead, 40. 

McCalla, one of the Irish Patriots, 
romantic history, 43. 

McMorries, Capt. John, 44. 

Marshall, James, his test of an hon- 
est lawyer, 46. 

McCreless, George, 46. 

McKee, Robert, and the Eoyds, 47. 

Moon, Dr. W. M., 58. 

Methodist Meeting House, first in 
the district, (note) 62. 

Musgrove, Col. John, 63. 

Meeting of the Scofelites and Reg- 
ulators, 64; anecdote of a man 
who supposed himself to be shot 
at that meeting, 64. 

Meeting, the last Quaker, 292. 

Mitchell, John B., schoolmaster, 68. 

McCrele?s, John, 87. 

McNeill, Mrs., 88. 

Malone, William, no. 

McKibbeu, James, Ksq., 123. 

Milling, David T., Esq., 124. 

Moon, Dennis h., Ksq., 128. 

Mendenhall, Dr. M.T., memoir, 132. 

Mangum, Rev. Daniel, memoir, 145. 

Maybin, Col. Benjamin, and his 
ancestors, 150. 

Maybiii'Matthew, James Chandler, 
Mark and Charles Littleton's suc- 
cess in capturini; part of Tarle- 
ton's baggage-train after the I!at- 
lle of Covvpetis, 162. 

Mackel DuiT, Daniel, 161. 

McCullough, Robert, 119. 

Mayer, Dr. O. B., 140. 

N. 

Newberry <listrict, origin, name of, 
situation, size, boundaries, pro- 
ducts, 9. 

Town, location, 1 1. 
Original settlers of the district, 21. 



Further description of the locality 

of the town, 77. 

Fidelity of public ofl&cers in the 

district, 84. 
Nance, Major Frederick, 8r. 
Nance, Robert Rutherford, Esq., 108. 
Nance, Drayton, Esq., 114. 
Newberry, date of settlement, 51. 
Ninety-Six, District of, division into 

counties, towns, &c., 13. 

O. 

O'Neall, Mrs. Anne, tribute, 211. 
O'Neall, Hugh, memoir, 278. 

P. 

Palatines sent from England, and 
settlement at Saxe-Gotha, 22. 

Parkins, Capt. Daniel, memoir, 169. 

Pope, Thos. H., Esq., 115. 

Pratt, Thos., merchant, his journey 
in 1813 and 1814 to Philadelphia 
and Amelia Island, 119. 

Pinchback, William, and his spec- 
ulation in oil stones from Balti- 
more, 120. 

Parks, Anthony, 53. 

Pitts, Reuben, 109. 

Pope, Joseph D. , letter, Appendix, 
325- 

R. 

Rutherford, Col. Robert, memoir, 174. 
Riley, Hezekiah, 61. 
Rialis, swap of wives. 67. 

S. 

Summer, Col. John Adam, anec- 
dote, 24. 

Spence, Samuel, (tailor) 43. 

Springfield, when settled, 50. 

Starke, Thomas, (note) 52. 

Stevens family, 59. 

Scofel, Colonel of the Schopilites, 63. 

Summers, Joseph, 65. 

Strong, Rev. Charles, memoir, 68. 

Satterwhite, William, elopement of 
his wife with William Craig, with 
some account of the latter, 84. 

Sherman, Simon T., 8g. 

Schoppert, George, his wife and 
children. 8g. 

Speake, John, Sheriff, and the 
wliipping of John Sloan, 90. 

Stringfellow, Henry, 118. 

Summer. Nicholas and John, 140. 

Shell, Dr. Thomas, 131. 

Sentence on Motley and Black- 
ledge, 31S. 

Stewart, Robert. 122. 



IV 



iStjex. 



Tarleton's Camp on Bush River, 
time ascertained from his quarter- 
master's report, 36. 
Route in pursuit of Morgan, 36. 
Lord Comwallis' order to, and de- 
scription of Camp on Bush River, 
from his campaigns, 36. 

fumer, William, 49. 

Todd, Dr. Samuel, and his "baes," 
86. 

Thweatt, John, and an anecdote, 86. 

Tinslev, James W., 116. 

Tinsley, Golding, memoir, 219. 



Vaughan, Nicholas, and sons, 84. 
Vessels, Shadrach, 160. 



Vessels, Charles, the father; nurture 
of his grandchildren; murder of a 
sentinel at Augusta; refusal to 
stop a leak in the vessel iu which 
he was sent a prisoner to Kn^*^- 
land; and" chopping off the head 
of an Indian, 160. 
W. 

Whippoor-will and Chuck-will's 
Wiaow, the night bird's (note) 24. 

Worthington, John, 61. 

West. John, 100 years old, 63. 

Waters, P. B. Sheriff, 91. 

Wilson, William, 113. 

Waldo, Dr. Joseph W., 130. 

Waldo, Dr. Benjamin. 136. 

Waters, Col. Philemon, memoir, 179 

Wood, Ichabod, 168. 

Williams, Col. James, 252. 



PART SECOND. 



I. The Friends and their Migration 

to Ohio, 329-359- 

Jones, David, 329. 

Jay, John, and his sons, 347. 

McCoole, Gabriel, 336. 

Miles, Samuel, David, William, 343. 

Mills, William, 344. 

Mitchell, John B.. 358. 

O'Neall, William, 342. 

O'Neall, Henry, 359. 

Pearson, Thomas, 333. 

Pearson, Benjamin, William, 334. 

Pemberton, Isaiah, Robert. John, 

346. 
Steddam, James, 346. 
Baptist Camp Meeting at Mount 

Enon, 358. 

II. John Belton O'Neall— Events 

Preceding Secession, 360-383. 

Johnstone, Chancellor, 379. 
Kinard, H. H., 382. 
Kansas Troubles, 371. 
Kansas Emigrants, 371. 
Lincoln, Election of, 373. 
Secession, Ordinance of, 374. 
Secession ', Convention — Delegates 
from Newberry, 373. 

Caldwell, Joseph, 378. 

Fair, Simeon, memoir, 375. 

Kinard, John P., 378. 

Moorman, Col. Robert, 376. 



III. Secession — The Soldiers of 
Newberry, 384-454. 

Confederacy formed, 385. 
Capture of Fort Sumter, 386. 
Confederate Dead, inscription to the 

memory of, (Appendix) 815. 
Chances of being hit in battle, 391. 
Davis, Jefferson, Tribute of Newberrv 

to memory of, (Appendix), 804. 
First Volunteer from Newberry, 386. 
Nance, Col. J. D., 395. 
Reminiscences, Dalton, Ga., 403. 
Secession Convention — Presidtiu 

Jamieson's Address, 384. 
Secession, 385. 
Soldiers of the Confederacy: 

Co. B, 3d Regiment. 388. 

Co. E, 3d Regiment, 391. 

Hagood's Command, 14th Regi- 
ment, Macbeth Artillery, 397., 

Co. G, 13th Regiment, 397. 

Co. G, 2nd Regiment State Troops. 
400. 

Co. B, 1st Regiment, 405. 

Co. F, aoth Regiment, 412. 

Co. D, 13th Regiment, 414. 

Co. M, 20th Regiment, 417. 

Co. G, Holcombe Legion, 418. 

Co. H, 3d Regiment, 421. 

Co. C, 3d Regiment, 423. 

Co. G, 2nd Cavalry, 426. 

Co. H, Holcombe Legion, 427. 

Co. C, Holcombe Legion, 429. 

Co. H, I3tli Regiment, 431. 



INDEX. 



Co. A, mostly boys, April, 1864,433. 

State Cadets, 434. 

Co. K, 5th Cavalry, 434. 

5th Regitijeut. Infantry, 436. 

Co. C, 9th Regiment, State Troops, 

440. 
Co. H, 4th Regiment, State 

Troops, 440. 
Co. I. 15th Regiment. S. C. V.. 441. 
Schultz's Battery, Co. I), Third 

Battalion, 442.' 
Co. E, 7th Cavalry. 442. 
Co. G, 2nd Cavalry-, 445. 
27th S. C. Infantry, Co. B, I- and 
G, (Appendix) 804. 

Thomas Roebuck, 5th Cavalry, De- 
Pass Artillery,W. D. Hardy,;. C. S. 
Brown's Company, 436. 

Bass. Blanton, Brown, Buist, Car- 
lisle, Carlisle, Fallaw, Lake, Lake, 
Lipscomb, Mazyck, Mcintosh. Mc- 
Caughrin, Moore, Noland, Pifer, 
Reid, Scott, Robertson, Simkins, 
Speck, Singleton, Tarrant, 437, 
438, 439 and 440. 

Lewie, Lindsay, Rook, Sloan, (Ap- 
pendix) 803-804. 

Correction of errors and Addenda, 
446. 

Furnas Family, the, 449. 

O'Neall— the Burning of Columbia, 

449- 
Mexico, The War with, 451. 

Roll of Co. L, No. 1 1 , with casual- 
ties, 451. 
Seminole War, Dr. King and Nich- 
olas Summer. 453. 
Diary of Capt. Hargrove, (Appen- 
dix) 799. 

IV. War Times in Newberry, 
455-460. 

The Women of Newberry during 

the War, 457. 
Rowe, Mrs., of Orangeburg, 458. 
Revolutionary Incidents: Israel 

Gauntt and his Daughter Han- 
nah, 459. 

V. The Story of Emily Geiger, 

461-473. 

VI. Newberry County — Climate, 
Etc., 474-480. 

First'County Court, 479. 
Officers of, Legislative, Judicial 
and Executive, 1 785-1892, (Ap- 
pendix) 805-809. 
Origin of name — spelling, 477. 
Population of, (Appendix) 810. 
Massacre at Hayes' Station, 497. 



VII. Old Times in Newberry, 

«i-555. 

Old Times in Dutch Fork, as seen 
through the eyes of Major J. P. 
Kinard, 481. 

As seen by Dr. P. B. Ruff, 483. 
Reminiscences by Dr. P. B. Ruff, 
489-502. 

Recollections written in the Sum- 
mer of 1888, 494. 

Henry Gray, Dr. Geddings, Neddy 
Finch, 494. 

Jonathan Davenport and the Limb 
less Woman, 495. 

John Young and the Ghost, 496. 

First Church in Newberry Vil- 
lage, 497. 

Cratmg Club, 497. 

Early cotton, 498. 

A surgical operation, 499. 

A wife swap, 491. 

Graham's escape from jail, 500. 

Jesse Gilder, 500. 

An alarm of Insurrection, 501. 

Almost a fight, 502. 
ReminiscencesofMoUohon, 502-508. 

Charity, Charles, 508. 

Dugan, Capt., 507. 

Revolutionary Incidents, 504. 

Schools— Mt. Bethel, &c., 504. 
Sketches by John T. Peterson, 
509-536. 

Shady Grove, 509. 

Old Kadesh, 511. 

Old New Chapel, 515. 

Coates' Meeting House, 51 8. 

Cox's Fishing Place, 521. 
Postscript to, 536. 

Head's Tavern. 525. 

Goggans' Old Store, 529. 

The Murder of David Waters, 532. 

Saluda Old Town, 534. 
Chappells and Upper Newberry, 542. 
Frog Level — Prosperity, 541. 
Maybinton, 546. 
Pomaria, 548. 
Smokey Town, 553. 
Stoney Batter, 537. 

Hamniond Family, the, 540. 
Whitmires, 545. 

VIII. The Physicians of the 
County, 556-573- 

Berly, John A. and J. Eusebius, 570. 

Brown, Thos. C, 571. 

Calmes, 572. 

Campbell, Robert, 562. 

Cannon, David A., 569. 

Cofield, James A., 569. 

Dobson, Daniel, 560. 



VI 



iif1>BS. 



Ewart, David E., 571. 
Fair, Samuel, 561. 
Ferguson, 562. 
Garmany, George W., 572. 
Gary, John K., 569. 
Gates, Elijah — Ode to Hymen, 564. 
Geddings, Dr., 572. 
Gilder, James K., 573. 
Hatton, W. M. , 563, 
Higgins, 571. 
Johnstone, Burr, 558. 
Johnstone, John Foote, 559. 
Kennerly, Thomas B., 570. 
King, Jacob H., 561. 
Lindsey, Dr. Wylie K. D. 
Long, John, 559. 
Mayer, O. B., memoir of, 567. 
Moon, Meredith, Peter and Wil- 
liam, 557. 
Myrick, Samuel, 662. 
Norris, 560. 
t Ren wick, James A., 569. 
RufT, P. B., 556. 
Rutherford, Thomas B., 566. 
Shell, James and Thomas, 558. 
Thompson, 556. 
Toland, H. H., 560. 
Waldo, Joseph, 557. 
Waldo, Benjamin, 560. * 

Watkins, 562. 

Worthington, Benjamin, 563. 
Yarbrough, Beaufort T., 570. 

IX. Biographical, 574-666. 

A Revolutionary Incident, 594. 

Abrams, Jasper, 610. 

An Old Family Bible, 598. 

AuU, Rev. Herman, memoir by Dr. 

O. B. Mayer, 658. 

John P. AuU, Wm. C. Aull, 664. 
Barre, Matthias, 653. 
Bauskett, Thomas, 574. 
Baxter, Maj. James M., 607. 
Bedenbaugh Family, the, 636. 
Berly Family, the, 631. 
Blease, Henry H., 629. 
Blackburn, Stephen, 579. 
Boland Family, the, 623. 
Bond, Mrs. Thomas, 578. 
Boozer Family, the Jacob, 640. 
Bowers I'amily, the, 635. 
Brown Family, the, 618. 
Brown Family, the Robert, 643. 
Caldwell, P. C, 585. 
Carwile, Maj. Z. W.. 606. 
Chapman, John W., 596. 
Counts, 657. 

Counts r'amily, the P. W., 641. 
Cromer, 646. 



Crosson, (Appendix) 812. 

Crosson Family, the, 633. 

Davis, Chesley, 578. 

Davis, William C, 578, 

Davis, William, 579. 

Dominick Family, the, 634. 

Dugan, William,'577. 

Fair, Robert P., 610. 

Feagle Family, the, 621. 

Folk Family, the, 590. 

I'rean, Rev. Thomas, memoir by 

Judge O'Neall, 599, 
Gallagher, Wm., 579. 
Garlington, Gen. A. C, 587. 
Gary Family, the, 632. 
Gary, Martin, 579. 
Gilliam, Dr. Jacob F., 576. 
Gilliam, Pettus W., 577. 
Gilliam, Robert G., 577. 
Glenn, Brigadier-General John, 5S3. 
Goggans Family, the, 614. 
Graham, Major James, 586, 
Gregg, Wm., 602. 

tireneker, Thomas F., memoir, 62S. 
Harrington, Dr. W. H., 606. 
Harmon, Rev. Wm., 630. 
Hawkins Family, the, 643. 
Hentz, 644. 

Herbert, Capt. Chesley W., 589. 
Herndon, Col. B. Z., 579. 
Higgins, Francis B., 587. 
Houseal, William Walter, 611. 
Hunt, Jacob, 604. 
Hunter Family, the, 639. 
Hurd, ^Stiles, (Appendix) 813. 
Kibler Family, the, 625. 
Kinard, Capt. John M., 632. 
Kinard, Middleton T. 631. 
Lester Family, the, 642. 
Lipscomb, Col. James N., 649. 
MaflFett, Col. R. C, 581. 
MafFett, Capt. James M., 582. 
Martin Family, the, 616. 
McCalla, Samuel, 602. 
McMorries, Dr. W. W., 6c 5. 
Monts Family, the, 621. 
Moore, Abrani, 565. 
Moore, John A., 596. 
Moseley P'amily, the, 635. 
Nance, (Ai)pendix) 812. 
Packer, James, 607. 
Page, William, 579. 
Pratt, (Appendix) 812. 
Ramage, Burr Johustoiic, 64S. 
Reid Family, the, 580. 
Renwick, Col. J. S., 605. 
Richey, John B., 579- 
Riser V'amily, the, 651. 
Rutherford, Col. W. D., 58.}. 



INDEX. 



VU 



Schumpert, Jacob K., 591. 

Schumperts, other, 59;^. 

Schumpert, Mr3. Harriet, 594. 

Shealy Family, the, 626. 

Simkms, Col. J. C, 582. 

Spence, 602. 

Spence, Caldwell, Montgomery, 617. 

Suber, Christian H., 608. 

Todd, Andrew, 602. 

Turner, Andrew, 575.- 

Wadlington, Thomas, 574. 

Welch Family, the, 591.^ 

Werts, 655. 

Wheeler Family, the, 638. . 

Williams, Col. James H.,647. » 

Wise Family, the, 641. 

Wright, Zaccheus, 578. 

Young Family, the, 637. 

X. The Churches, 667-712. 

Associate Reformed Presbyterian, 
674. 

Baptist, 686. 

Episcopal, 708. 

Lutheran, 667. 

Methodist, 693. 

Presbyterian, 679. 

Quakers, 709. 

Sundaj'-schools — Address b}- Zac- 
.cheus Wright, 711. 

Tunkers, 709. 

Universalist, Swedenborgians, Cov- 
enanters and other Churches, 710. 

XI. Educational and Literary, 

713-731. 

Bethel Academy — Poniaria, 722. 
Judge O'Neall, H. 1 1. Caldwell and 

J. F. J. Caldwell, 726. 
Mount Tabor High School, 722. 
Mrs. M. A. Kvans, John I?. Carwile, 

J. C. McLemore, Simeon Pratt. 

727. 
Mrs. L. M. Sale, Paul JoliTistone, 

Silas Johnstone, O. H. Mayer, 

J. Wood Davidson, IVIiss Mary 

Fowlcs, 728. 
Newberry College, 713. 
Newberry Graded Schools, 726. 
Newspapers, 729. 
Old Newberry Acadeni)-, 717. 
Pagesville Academy, 724. 
Prosperity High School, 720. 
Rutherford Scliool, 725. 



XIL Industrial, Commercial and 
Benevolent, 732-750. 

Banks, The, 736- 

Fair Grounds and Agricultural So- 
ciety, 732. 

Farmers' Alliance, 749- 

Future Progress Society, 748. 

Missionary Societies, 740. 

Giffen, Mrs. Mary Galloway, 
memoir, 741. 

Newberry Cotton Mills, 738. 

Oil Mill, 739- 

W. C. T. U., 745- 

Mower, Mrs. C, memoir, 749. 

Y. M. C. A., 748. 

XIII. Since the War, 751-776. 

Anecdote of the War, 759. 

Clerks of Court, 758. 

Crozier, Calvin, 762. 

P'ederal Soldiers, conduct of, 761. 

Gen. Sickles, Canby, D. R. Phifer, 

764. 
Great Fires, 767. 

Herbert, Chesley, murder of, 763. 
Nance, Lee, killing of, 766. 
Negro Emigration, 764. 
Opera House, Dedication of, 774. 
Reconstruction, 751. 
Sheriffs since the War, 75S. 
Sky Glows, Cyclones, Karthquakes, 

Freshets, 769. 
Ward, D. M., shooting of, 765. 
1876— J. C. Leahy, 760. 

XIV. Shifting Scenes and Changes 
777-798. 

A. P. Pifer. Singleton, 795. 

Business Changes, 783. 

Columbia, Newberry and Laurens 

Railroad, history of, (App. ) 810. 
Emigrants, 780. 
Lawyers, 77S. 
Newberr}-, 796. 
Other changes in names, 796. 
Rosemont Cemetery, (App.) 815. 
j Speck, Capt. John l\, 79S. 
Telegraph, established to Newl)crry, 

(.•\ppendix) 811. 
Treatment of Prisoners, 794. 
Vanished Names, 780. 
Wcrber, Glenn, Cline, Miller, Ma- 

zyck, 797. 
White, Z. L:. 798. 



